Let's say you were born into a secret society that values lineage, bestows wealth upon your family and acquires the money to do so through serial murder and theft, and on your 21st birthday, you are made aware of this.
I feel like everyone has forgotten exactly how bipartisan the crime bill was from jump and the fact that a larger percentage of Black people supported it than white people.
Ironically, the 1994 Crime bill was supported by almost 60% of the Black community.
Mostly because they'd been abandoned in the most criminogenic environments of poverty and disenfrachisement in the country and had nowhere else to turn.
The Crime Bill was in fact the product of white supremacy but totally not in the way that everyone envisions.
This headline only seems outrageous until it finally dawns on you that there are no "good" drugs or "bad" drugs and that their ultimate utility to humans is largely dependent on the nature of their use.
Heroin (under the name diamorphine is something folks can get a scrip for)
No. I did. You are making the argument that the news "Just gives the people what they want" except the news has spent decades carefully crafting what people want and expect from them.
The job of the news, by the way is very much NOT to give people what they want to see/hear.
It's to give people the NEWS.
Chasing ratings for cash is not a valid excuse for failing journalistic integrity.
This isn't accidental either.
There used to be regulations around news on television called the Fairness Doctrine
Once they were relaxed, news orgs were able to demand that their news shows prioritize ratings, allowing them to do and say pretty much whatever they wanted.
To do one part successfully yet fail to do the other distorts the very truth that the news was ostensibly trying to convey, robbing it of the ability to actually provide answers to solving the issue.
The media is a central mechanism by which white supremacy is propagated and replicated throughout society.
News media in particular has spent decades upon decades reinforcing the foundational lies of white supremacy and they're not planning to stop anytime soon.