I don’t see racism everywhere I look. In my view, most issues are far too complex for “race” to serve as a dominant explanatory factor.
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That said, it’s rather stunning to see the recent tsunami of news articles (like this one recent news piece from NPR [2]) taking the position that as people of European descent become an ever bigger percentage of drug addicts, throwing their asses in jail is no longer trendy as a first-choice paradigm for addressing the problem. Almost overnight, in this age of opioid addiction, compassionate treatment has become “common sense.”
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