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Having lived poor places across the US for the last 15 years, I have come up with two root causes for the violence I have seen. 1. Drug prohibition related. 2.
by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Having lived poor places across the US for the last 15 years, I have come up with two root causes for the violence I have seen.
1. Drug prohibition related.
2. Keeping it Real going wrong.
The Drug War and inter-generational poverty are two tough nuts to crack. The American mythology of Bootstraps and Individualism that's so baked into our culture gives us limited toolsets for dealing with these problems because they helped create the problems in the first place.
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