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We Started America With The Sin Of Slavery That Led Right Into The Post-reconstruction Period Which Was The Greatest Period Of Domestic Terrorism In Our Country's History. Then After That, We Had Jim Crow Emerge And Just When The Jim Crow Laws Were Ending Came The Onslaught Of The Drug War. Well, The Drug War Has So Perniciously Effected, Insidiously Infected Communities Of Color That In Some Ways It Has Come Full Circle, And We Now Have More African Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of The Slaves In 1865. This Is A Profoundly Unjust War.

The More You Limit Your Choices, Thereby Limiting Thought, The More You Can Simplify Your Life And Focus Your Energy Elsewhere.

If You Want Extraordinary Results You Must Put In Extraordinary Effort.

The War On Drugs Is A War On People, But Particularly It's Been A War On Low-income People And A War On Minorities. We Know In The United States Of America There Is No Difference In Drug Use Between Black, White And Latinos. But If You're Latino In The United States Of America, You're About Twice As Likely To Be Arrested For Drug Use Than If You're White. If You're Black, You Are About Four Times As Likely To Be Arrested If You're African American Than If You Are White. This Drug War Has Done So Much To Destroy, Undermine, Sabotage Families, Communities, Neighborhoods, Cities.

If Donald Trump Governs The Way He Campaigned, It'll Be A Disastrous Presidency. This Is A Chance For Him To Be Magnanimous, Humble. To Work Across The Aisle. If That's The Kind Of President We Have, That's Fine. But If Not, I Want Our Dnc Chair, I Want Democratic Senators And Congresspeople, Citizens, We Need To Resist.