The
War on Drugs has been going on four decades and more than 45 million people
have been arrested. Each person
jailed destroys a family. Most of
those arrested are men. This
removes another father from a home and sets the children in the family,
especially the boys, down the same path the father took. Since men are the higher wage earners,
this leads to more poverty in the family.
When groups of people are segregated into housing projects, it causes
more poverty and lack of jobs.
Lack of jobs and poverty lead to finding the only way to make money and
that is dealing drugs. People
segregated, in poverty, without jobs, without hope turn to drugs to relieve
their pain and to supply themselves with drugs, they deal.
There
are a lot of problems, mandatory minimum sentences, disparity between sentences
for crack cocaine and powdered cocaine, asset seizure, police enforcement
supported by the assets and prisons as a business venture. What are the answers? What we are doing that
isn’t working? Will 40 more years
go by with America expecting different results? 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
108
min, Doc directed by Eugene Jarecki with Nannie Jeter, David Simon, Michelle
Alexander, Shaniqua Benitez, Mark Bennett, Mike Carpenter, Larry Cearly, Eric
Franklin.
Note: Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 7.7 out of 10,
94% critic 87% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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