Quote Originally Posted by Bongoman
Thats impressive, and kudos to you sir, but your personal situation is not necessarily representative of all people living in these "projects" or who are poor. Anyway, the point of the article is not about social mobility or whatnot, its about the ridiculous fact that black people are 8 times more likely to be arrested for MJ possession than white people, even though white people are more likely to smoke it. I can see no justification for this, and even if poor and/or black people have the capability to move out of poverty, it still does not justify the grossly disproportionate number of arrests of poor and/or black people. The law is meant to be just; how can those statistics possibly be interpreted as just?
They put themselves in a position where somebody has to *DO* something about it. They flaunt it, and flash their bling. They sell openly on the street, they toke up on the front porch in front of GOD and everybody. Its almost like they are daring the cops to bust them. I don't know of anybody else thats out on the streets at all hours. Maybe its a cultural thing, I can't say. What I can say is that a lot of the black populace like to play the race card, because they can. They raise all kinds of "red flags", then piss and moan because they get busted. If they were to fly under the radar, instead of being so blatent about it, they wouldn't have the problems.

I can only tell you what I *SEE* first hand... I go in and out of all of the different neighborhoods and homes in 9 counties at all hours of the day and night, as I drive a heating and a/c service truck.