“The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.” WarOpportunityLanguageBlackRaceProgressDrugUniqueRacismReformExposedHostilityWar On DrugsUnique Opportunities Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs......When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.” ThinkingWinningRaceTerribleDrugSevenTreatedFranceDisgustingBikeArmstrong Author:Willie Nelson
“It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.” PlayCharacterRaceNiceWrittenDrugAddictDrug AddictMixed Race Author:Howard Charles
“I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.” HumansCountryHelpingKidsRaceMediaDrugFameHuman RaceEmphasisDon't TrustPlugs Author:Pete Seeger
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.” KnowsChildrenMotherFatherRaceBabyBirthDrugCrisisAgencyPregnantAdoptionHomosexualBirth Mother Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.” ImportantPlayRememberChoicesReadingChallengesRaceRolesWrittenDrugScriptsLatinoWhat's ImportantMaidsDealerDrug Dealers Author:Eva Mendes
“If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'” IfsWayHumansSaidI CanMomentsRaceFireDrugHuman RaceParaphraseHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.” IfsThinkingWantSaidPlayMightRacePolicyDrugRacismTrialsFactorsThey SaidProsecutionDrug PolicyZimmerman Author:Carl Hart
“How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!” HumansPersonsDifferentSpeakRaceDrugHuman Race Author:Laura Huxley
“If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.” PeopleIfsWarEndsCommunityPowerfulRaceDrugVulnerableDefinedOur SocietyTargetSparksOutrageLiteralWar On Drugs Author:Michelle Alexander
“For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.” MenWayHumansWarYoungBlackJusticeWhiteRaceRightsCollegeDrugActivityMassBasesMajorityHuman RightsCriminalsAcceptedEngagedMinorsOffenseWhite ManNormJustice SystemWar On DrugsCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemBrandedMass IncarcerationFelonsOff To College Author:Michelle Alexander
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.” LongDesireArtistOrderSocialAnimalRaceBreakSadnessDrugLetting GoGardenEmbraceNotesFleshIntenseCelebrateReleaseGrassCensorshipBladesMarathonMistressRuthlessAdorationCelestialShepherdsPolishedHeroinesServitudeFieryHowlCastesSocial OrderMonotonyBlades Of GrassNever Let Go Author:Patti Smith