Carl Shariff the man behind Booker suggests LEGALIZING DRUGS!

[J. Sharpe James, J.D.]

On 13th paragraph!

WHAT A NUTCASE!

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[LastCubanStanding]

On 13th paragraph!

WHAT A NUTCASE!

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Starting to feel the heat, aren't ya? You're getting scaaaared, aren't ya?

How long before you bust out the PhotoShop and start doctoring photos?

[J. Sharpe James, J.D.]

I thought it would be interesting reading on Newarkspeaks...thats all:D

[LastCubanStanding]

I thought it would be interesting reading on Newarkspeaks...thats all:D

How much of your day (while you are on County time) do you spend on the computer Googleing trying to find sh$t on people. I bet when you found this you peed your AquaMan Underoos in anticipation.

[Klap Bak]

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...while you can grASSHOPPER. Your 15 minutes of stupidity are almost up.

[AKAladyjustice]

How much of your day (while you are on County time) do you spend on the computer Googleing trying to find sh$t on people. I bet when you found this you peed your AquaMan Underoos in anticipation.Cuban, the next time that you criticize someone for dodging, I am going to make you sit in a chair and watch hours of Fidel footage over and over again. Why not try and deal with the article for what it is and stop dodging yourself for a change.

[LastCubanStanding]

Cuban, the next time that you criticize someone for dodging, I am going to make you sit in a chair and watch hours of Fidel footage over and over again. Why not try and deal with the article for what it is and stop dodging yourself for a change.

The residents of Newark are not voting for Carl Sharif. You would vote for Sharpe depsite the rantings of his mongoloid son, wouldn't you? Of course you would...

[AKAladyjustice]

The residents of Newark are not voting for Carl Sharif. You wouls vote for Sharpe depsite the rantings of his mongoloid son, wouldn't you?Cuban, don't insult my common sense like that. You and I are both smart enough to know the difference (and thus the relevance) between a candidate's political strategist and someone's son or relative. Shariff's article is very relevant here and shame on you for pretending otherwise. Again, stop being the thing you claim to dislike the most. You're about to be a parent, so you better learn quickly the difference between "do as I say and not as I do" or you are headed for a house of chaos.

[jazzyken]

Ironically, I thought the article was well thought out. I personally do not agree with legalizing drugs (unless maybe marijuana when I was 19 :p ) but he does hit on really good points regarding Black Men. You can not read the entire article and only pin-point the legalizing drugs... there are many issues facing our young men and if we only want to nitpick at that one point our young men are lost. I have to help raise two young Black men (hubby really steps in there with that one:o ) but there are many Black women raising young men that needs help... please read the article and lets really get the conversation going...

John, please stop this crap... RUN YOUR RACE!!!

[black4rob2]

i thought it was a very truthful and innovative piece....


We can all debate about the different approches, but isn't it time we try something new?

[AKAladyjustice]

Ironically, I thought the article was well thought out. I personally do not agree with legalizing drugs (unless maybe marijuana when I was 19 :p ) but he does hit on really good points regarding Black Men. You can not read the entire article and only pin-point the legalizing drugs... there are many issues facing our young men and if we only want to nitpick at that one point our young men are lost. I have to help raise two young Black men (hubby really steps in there with that one:o ) but there are many Black women raising young men that needs help... please read the article and lets really get the conversation going...

John, please stop this crap... RUN YOUR RACE!!!Jazz I disagree. I thought the article was more simplistically evocative than analytic. Nothing new there, or interesting, I was bored and definitely not inspired.

[LastCubanStanding]

You're about to be a parent

I'm not accepting any liability until the test results are in. :D

[Klap Bak]

Ironically, I thought the article was well thought out. I personally do not agree with legalizing drugs (unless maybe marijuana when I was 19 :p ) but he does hit on really good points regarding Black Men. You can not read the entire article and only pin-point the legalizing drugs... there are many issues facing our young men and if we only want to nitpick at that one point our young men are lost. I have to help raise two young Black men (hubby really steps in there with that one:o ) but there are many Black women raising young men that needs help... please read the article and lets really get the conversation going...

John, please stop this crap... RUN YOUR RACE!!!

............ running his race Jazzy. This crap is all the little grASSHOPPER has got.

[AKAladyjustice]

I'm not accepting any liability until the test results are in. :DDoesn't matter, you're married. Legally it's yours. ;)

You're bad.

[Make Newark Clean]

On 13th paragraph!

WHAT A NUTCASE!

http://www.iamsaam.org/beheard/streetvoices.php?svid=2

I'm not completely sure yet, and to what extent I would advocate, legalizing drugs, but the issue needs serious consideration. What gain is there in locking up ever increasing numbers of black men (and women) whose only source of income is trading drugs? To be concerned about shifting that paradigm is not being a nutcase; it is, IMVHO, about dispassionately trying to grapple with a situation that lands too many of our people in jail for having done nothing more than meeting a market need. The negatives are created by deeming all drugs the same and illegal.

Now, don't get me wrong. If there were ever any form of legalization--whether it be for certain recreation drugs and not others--there are two things that I would like to see take place right off the bat: that any such trading be removed from residential areas to areas zoned for; AND that black folks get an affirmative chance to be first to become rich off of any legalization.

Mr O James Sr is simply echoing the position of those as diverse as William Buckley to Kurt Schmoke, the former mayor of Baltimore, for a reexamination of the punitive nature of drug laws and how those laws contribute more to the destruction of the black community than the drugs themselves. Certainly, the current way we handle these substance--no legitimate alternative inner city economy, not enough treatment slots for addicts, trading in area's where residents don't desire it--feeds the prison-industrial complex. It amounts to a Perfect Storm of (a) imprisoning black men; (b) making our neighborhoods less livable; (c) and financing gang activity. In the alternative, perhaps one day people could buy marijuana and soft drugs in a legal way that blacks could capitalistically benefit from. It would be an entirely new market that could be harnessed to lift people out of poverty.

I'm reading what I type and I know I may sound radical. I really do.

Listen, I do not advocate legalization for harder drugs like heroin or cocaine, and I still haven't quite thought all this through... but if the Kennedy clan made their fortune off of alcohol (or so I heard), well... aren't they one of America's most prosperous and revered families?