If you've discussed raycissm before, you've certainly read that blacks are arrested at greater rates than whites for drugs, while using equally much. Hence RAYCISSM in the war on drugs.
These articles, when they even cite their claims, usually refer to the same source. As it happens, that source does't prove their point, when you actually read it.
This post on old r/greatapes explains it well. Since greatapes is in danger of getting banned, I'll paste it over here:
We've all heard it before. "White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for drug offenses. Therefore racism."
What these headlines fail to mention, and what you can learn from looking at the studies they cite, is that they are not looking at frequency of use - they are always cherry picking at the question of who has used at least once.
But whether you have used drugs one time or more is really not as relevant to your likelihood of arrest as your frequency of use. Clicking into their data source, you can see that when you cohort by frequency in the last 12 months, blacks use drugs more frequently in every category except LSD and Mushrooms (use the dropdown). A staggering 1 in 333 blacks has used crack between 100 - 365 days out of the last 12 months! Holy shit!
When frequency is factored in, blacks are actually much less likely to be arrested than their usage patterns would suggest. Don't believe the hype.
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[–] groidle 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Amren did a good article on this, basically niggers are arrested more with drugs because they commit so much other crime while having a bag of weed in their pockets.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
[–] eagleshigh 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
And lie about their drug use.
[–] ELS_BrigadeWarning 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Yep that's what I remember too. They frequently lie. I wouldn't trust anything self-reported from a nigger.
[–] WipeOutTheNiggers ago
don't forget they also usually keep their pipes sitting in the center console so they can smoke while driving