But there you go dismissing the effects of racial discrimination. What about the fact that PoC are more likely to receive harsher sentencing for the same drug violations then white Americans?  You see a symptom of racial discrimination (the disproportionately higher number of black Americans in jail compared to their population) and then somehow ignore the systemic racial discrimination.  Do you just ignore things like the fact that the “war on drugs” main goal was to suppress black Americans and hippy voters?