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In reply to the discussion: "Electronic Dance Music Festivals Fraught With White Privilege" [View all]MrScorpio
(73,772 posts)It's quite clear that she had compared the stereotype of blacks with dreads and the negative impact that those stereotypes have on the greater black community against the all too real drug use of white dread wearing, drug taking concert goers who are able to do that without any scrutiny at all.
Her article was addressing a double standard.
And it's not like I haven't seen the exact same thing with my own eyes. I've been aware of this issue for decades myself, when I would go to reggae concerts and see young white people there behaving as if being at a reggae concert gives them carte blanch to smoke dope out in the open.
If black people felt as if smoking dope out in the open was OK to do, I wonder how long that would happen.
Her nightmare, as is mine, is seeing bleeding black bodies, lying dead in our streets, all because of how this drug war is singularly focused on black people.