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.

That said, it’s rather stunning to see the recent tsunami of news articles (like this one recent news piece from NPR) 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.”