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These dark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. [...] That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation's prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes.

–The New Jim Crow

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