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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[–] Tyronedindunuffin 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
There are several other major factors. Blacks travel with drugs far more often than white people. White people also are usually more secretive in their drug use and lay low, whereas blacks will use drugs right on their porch. These studies also rely on people telling the truth, and therefore all this proves is that less dindus are likely to admit that they use drugs, not that less dindus actually use drugs. Blacks are also less rational, so getting into a confrontation with a cop is totally acceptable to them when they have drugs on their body, a white person will be much more cautious and less likely to want to interact with a cop while carrying drugs because they can actually think about the implications of that behavior. Essentially blacks have more drugs on them more frequently and they are more likely to argue with a cop and end up being searched during routine interactions with cops rather than be polite like a white person and move along with their day.
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[–] KoontownKinte 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yea there have been multiple studies that've proved that. I think there was another with Vietnam vets.
[–] YopperApe [S] ago
Good link. Never seen it before, in spite of researching the issue quite a lot earlier, before I was redpilled...