Quentin Tarantino, director of “Django Unchained” compares the war on drugs to slavery, saying it recreates an atmosphere of a fear of the black male. How else is the war on drugs like slavery, or Jim Crow? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian bring us the facts and break it down.
“Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino believes that US drug policy, and the subsequent mass incarceration of African Americans, is comparable to pre-Civil War slavery. In an interview about his latest movie—Django Unchained, which documents the story of a freed slave, played by Jamie Foxx—Tarantino points out that the hierarchies of racial injustice have shifted but not wholly improved. “This whole thing of…this ‘War on Drugs,’ and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population,” says the filmmaker. “It’s slavery…it’s just slavery through and through, and it’s just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s.”*
thank you quentin for escalating the conversation. his one comment read millions. now. spread the word. READ "THE NEW JIM CROW". educate yourself. organize. take action.
1in 3 Black males will become slaves of the state through the criminal justice system in America on the grounds of The War On Drugs. upon release he is denied a living wage, the right to vote, and access to public assistance or housing (legal discrimination). This is the cog in the vicious cycle of repeat offenders. This injustice also ruins family structure in Black communities and destroys the likelyhood of having a profitable and upwardly mobile household.
Now ask yourself how many brothers u know been to prison? why have so many black children grown up without fathers? why does the average household income in the black community exist way below poverty level?
The cards are stacked against us. we've been given a basket to fetch water.
THE WAR ON DRUGS = THE NEW JIM CROW.
People need to be conscious of this. REBLOG. EDUCATE.
