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[https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-black-america-casualties-war-drugs by ACLU 1/9/2010] | [https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-black-america-casualties-war-drugs by ACLU 1/9/2010] | ||
In the modern era, a subtler but equally pernicious form of institutional racism came to be known as 'driving while black or brown.' The practice of racial profiling by police on our nation's highways has resulted in black travelers disproportionately being stopped, searched and arrested. Significant blame for this rampant abuse of power can be laid at the feet of the government's 'war on drugs,' in which blacks are targeted and thus arrested for drug possession at a far higher rate than whites, resulting in skewed statistics that 'prove' that blacks are more likely to be involved with drugs. | In the modern era, a subtler but equally pernicious form of institutional racism came to be known as 'driving while black or brown.' The practice of racial profiling by police on our nation's highways has resulted in black travelers disproportionately being stopped, searched and arrested. Significant blame for this rampant abuse of power can be laid at the feet of the government's 'war on drugs,' in which blacks are targeted and thus arrested for drug possession at a far higher rate than whites, resulting in skewed statistics that 'prove' that blacks are more likely to be involved with drugs. | ||
=====Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in Florida public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/24/desantis-florida-schools-racism by Melissa Hellmann 24/8/24 The Guardian] | |||
“When I say, ‘because’, you say: ‘Black people invented it,’” Renee Scott Best told a class of predominantly Black students one Monday last month. The call and response from the kids grew louder as they read a fictional story about a dystopian world without African Americans and their inventions. A folding bed, tricycle, clock, toilet, heating furnace, thermostat and air conditioner were among the innovations that no longer existed because, “Black people invented it,” the students shouted. | |||
