Dirtbag Negro Jay Z Declares War on Drugs a Racist, 'Epic Fail' in 'Powerful' Op-Ed

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

Yeah...It's 'racist" to have laws that activists, blacks, knuckle-dragger
democrats and illegal alien mexicans don't agree with.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/15/jay-z-declares-war-on-
drugs-a-racist-epic-fail-in-powerful-op-ed.html

In a visually arresting New York Times video released Thursday morning,
Jay Z deemed America’s War on Drugs an “epic fail.”

The former cocaine dealer turned hip-hop royalty eviscerated government
policies, from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws up
to present-day racial profiling. With his trademark sardonic drawl, the
rapper ties up 45 years of ineffective governance with a common thread of
racism and hypocrisy.

His script, brought to life through Molly Crabapple’s stunning
illustrations, starts in 1986, when the erstwhile Shawn Carter “was coming
of age.” He describes a ramped up War on Drugs in inner cities, where
“drug dealers were monsters” and “young men like me who hustled became the
sole villain.” This tunnel vision caused America’s incarceration rates to
skyrocket, as judges were pressured to hand out mandatory life sentences
for possession charges and low-level drug sales.

Jay Z notes that America’s prison population, which is disproportionately
black and Latino, is bigger than any country in the world, even the
countries “we consider autocratic, and oppressive.” He adds, dryly, “Yeah.
More than them.” Next, he debunks the distinction between powder cocaine
and crack cocaine. Crack, which is “still talked about as a black
problem,” was penalized more harshly than powder cocaine. This racist
sentencing policy privileged the powerful and imprisoned the powerless:
“The NYPD raided our Brooklyn neighborhoods while Manhattan bankers openly
used coke with impunity.”

While we’ve started to treat drug addiction as a serious health problem,
Carter points out, “There’s no compassionate language about drug dealers.”

The irony gets even richer, when we consider that “crimes” like possessing
or selling marijuana are quickly becoming legal business ventures. Carter
chronicles the transformation of chronic into a booming industry in places
like Colorado—meanwhile, just a few states away, Louisiana is still
handing out mandatory sentences for people who sell weed. He stresses that
most states still disproportionately target blacks and Latinos for
marijuana sales. Once they serve their sentences, these drug dealers are
permanently marked as former felons, and barred from opening a marijuana
dispensary. Venture capitalists move in to reap the rewards of
legalization and are heralded as entrepreneurs, as the original dealers
are shut out from one of the fastest-growing economies. In other words,
rich white dudes can get richer doing the same thing that sent countless
people of color to prison.

Jay Z ends by charting this brand of hypocrisy back home to New York:
“Kids in Crown Heights are constantly stopped and ticketed for trees. Kids
at dorms in Columbia, where rates of marijuana use are equal to or worse
than those in the hood, are never targeted or ticketed.” Except, of
course, if they’re students of color. Carter concludes that 45 years
later, the rates of drug use are just as high as they were under Reagan,
and “It’s time to rethink our policies and laws.”

The video, made in conjunction with the Drug Policy Alliance and Revolve
Impact, seeks to educate on the wide-reaching impact of the drug war. It’s
also tied to a specific policy measure, California’s Prop 64, which is
described as “the most racial-justice-oriented marijuana legalization
measure ever.” Having started his career as a rapper turning his drug
dealing past into music, it’s only fitting that Shawn Carter was the one
to elevate the story of the War on Drugs into art. Plus, condensing
decades’ worth of information and policy into four minutes without making
it sound like a speed-reading contest or a history lesson is a challenge
worthy of the master of the flow.

While hip-hop fans know Jay Z as the genius behind albums like The
Blueprint and The Black Album, and Beyoncé fans know him as an Instagram
husband, Carter has never hidden his political proclivities. In the wake
of the Baltimore and Ferguson Black Lives Matter protests, Jay and Bey
quickly wired tens of thousands of dollars to help activists post bail.

Carter has donated over a million dollars to BLM, and dropped a police
brutality protest song, “Spiritual,” following the murders of Alton
Sterling and Philando Castile. Just consider this the latest phase in
Beyoncé and Jay Z’s secret Illuminati plot to make the world a better
place.


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