"Electronic Dance Music Festivals Fraught With White Privilege"

[Warren DeMontague]

121. Again, if her point was that we should end the drug war, she didn't do a very good job of making it.

I'm fairly sure there are concerts where African Americans with dreads smoke pot out in the open, too. But I am certainly in agreement that the drug war is racist AND wrong and needs to end.

I don't think that "we need to send swat teams into all the dave matthews concerts to crack some white frat boy heads for smoking dope" is actually the best, or most realistic, way to go about it... As much as I don't personally like DMB. I actually think that, like with marriage equality, there has been a sea change of opinion around the drug war- certainly the clock is ticking on pot prohibition, and about damn time.

Her thing about the drug war was almost an afterthought, in the larger context of the piece, which was all over the map and pretty much a mess. If she had wanted to write a peice saying "gee, I went to this show and a lot of white people were smoking pot with impunity, here are some facts about the drug war and how it overwhelmingly targets African Americans" that would have been much more linear. This was about being pissed at "pseudo hippies" for things like wearing dreads.

From where I sit, how people choose to wear their hair is their own damn business, just as it should be if they're consenting adults and want to smoke a joint.