&gt; &quot;Implicitly racist&quot; is completely subjective.<p>&quot;Implicitly racist&quot; is far from being completely subjective. A law banning US citizens whose ancestors lived in Africa 500 years ago from voting isn&#x27;t explicitly racist: one could argue that it&#x27;s based purely on geography and that ancestry and geography are only incidentally linked. It&#x27;s implicitly racist given an understanding of the context in which it is applied.<p>Taken out of context, the War on Drugs can presented as race-neutral. You can describe the laws as they are written and stop there. This is not an honest discussion of the War on Drugs. We&#x27;re not just talking about laws, we&#x27;re talking about enforcement. Look at the data. Look at the statistics. I&#x27;m not just saying that.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samhsa.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013&#x2F;Web&#x2F;NSDUHresults2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samhsa.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;NSDUHresultsP...</a>
2013 Drug usage rates, by race<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2013&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-2013&#x2F;tables&#x2F;table-43" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2013&#x2F;...</a>
2014 Drug abuse violation rates, by race<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2014&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s.-2014&#x2F;persons-arrested&#x2F;main" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;cjis&#x2F;ucr&#x2F;crime-in-the-u.s&#x2F;2014&#x2F;...</a>
2014 Drug abuse violations, by category<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;prod&#x2F;cen2010&#x2F;briefs&#x2F;c2010br-02.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.census.gov&#x2F;prod&#x2F;cen2010&#x2F;briefs&#x2F;c2010br-02.pdf</a>
2010 US Census, by race<p>This tells me that the ratio of Whites to Blacks in the U.S. is roughly ~6:1. The ratio of drug use between Whites and Blacks is ~1:1. The ratio of drug abuse violations between Whites and Blacks is ~2:1. Do you agree that these figures are correct? If so, how do you explain the discrepancy between usage vs violations between Whites and Blacks? Looking for an honest analysis. My conclusion was that the laws and policies which constitute the War on Drugs have disproportionately affected Blacks. CMV.