&gt; The perpetrators include not only those who participated in these acts in Alabama, but also those who conspired to pretextually pass these laws in the first place.<p>Which law specifically legalizes planting evidence on people and then covering up evidence of it?<p>&gt; They aren&#x27;t two different things; prohibition (and its material form, the prison state) is the same thing as racism.<p>No. Prohibition is part of what racism is in the west, but it is not the &quot;same thing.&quot; There are many forms of racism people struggle with every day that don&#x27;t have anything to do with prohibition.<p>As far as I can tell, you&#x27;re appropriating this argument to turn an important chance to remind people how brutalized black people are in America and turn it into a conversation about drug use and enforcement. I find this reprehensible and racist in and of itself, and I will no longer entertain a conversation with you.