Race Relations and the War on Drugs

Cato Podcast

Cato Institute

Immigration, News, News Commentary, Peace, 424708, Markets, Government, Libertarian, Policy, Politics, Cato, Defense

4.5 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2010

⏱️ 11 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 3rd, 2010.
0:07.0	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:08.0	Race relations are made worse by the War on Drugs.
0:12.0	That's the conclusion of John
0:13.4	McCorder at Columbia University professor and author of books on
0:17.0	language, culture, and race. He argues it's time to end the War on Drugs.
0:21.6	He spoke of the Cato Institute's New York City seminar in October.
0:27.0	Black America fully understands overall that while racism is not dead, it can't be used as an excuse for failure.
0:35.0	Most black people have no problem with Barack Obama saying that he would not want his
0:39.3	children to be subjected to racial preferences.
0:42.2	Most black people understand that Al-Shara to be subjected to racial preferences.
0:42.5	Most black people understand that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
0:46.1	are celebrities rather than leaders.
0:48.9	Most black people understand that the main problem for inner city residents
0:53.2	is less how white people feel about them
0:55.6	than the depredations of black criminals.
0:59.0	Yet, there is a single eternal sticking point.
1:02.8	This is grievously misunderstood
1:05.1	by a lot of people who are very concerned with race in America.
1:07.8	There is a single eternal sticking point,
1:10.6	and it is nothing but the police.
1:14.1	Most black Americans do not think it's okay
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cato Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cato Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.