The "race plays a huge part" does take it into account. The prohibitionists were not just "the religious right", you're applying today's politics to something t

The "race plays a huge part" does take it into account. The prohibitionists were not just "the religious right", you're applying today's politics to something that's been going on for much longer. You're not wrong, but it's also not true that the prohibitionists were racists, either. That's the thing about political movements is they often have wide bases of support. I'm not sure what's controversial about this. Have you guys not been around very religious people who abstain from all drugs but are not racists? There's a lot of those, it's incorrect to act like they don't exist and it's all about racism, because it is not. History is nuanced, it's not an all or nothing thing. It's almost never just x.