mr. stevenson, don't tell me about staying in school. i've got to go out here and get mine before i'm dead at 18 or 21 or i'm sent to prison for the rest of my life." and this culture of despair is a function of this so-called war on drugs, that is also like jim crow, because it has actually diminished the aspirations and hopes of people of color in ways that actually contribute to these cycles of violence and destruction. and hopelessness. >> the enemy in this war is not drugs. the enemy has been defined in racial terms. now, if we were to look for drugs as aggressively in suburban, middle class white communities as we do in ghetto communities, we would have those kinds of stunning figures in middle class white communities, as well. and as bryan indicated, you know, the rates of drug use are about the same. among all racial groups. but also, and what many people don't realize is that the rates of drug sales are about the same among people of all different races. now, this defies our racial stereotypes, right? when we think of a drug dea