AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary (3912 hits)
AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary
(New York) - Blacktree TV sits down with Ava DuVernay, Writer & Director of the new documentary '13TH', which highlights the loophole in the 13 Amendment that allows "slavery" to still exist here in America in the 21st century.
'13TH' premieres globally October 7th on Netflix. Follow the conversation on social media:
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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
The amendment stated in 1865 and 1880 and 1920...1940....1960....1990 and OCTOBER 16, 2016
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Something we could have FILMED, and VIDEOED before another MLKing Movie..........
I believe that this documentary educates all people, some of which are looking at this topic for the very first time and from here we, can right the wrongs of the war on drugs, war on the nations citizens both poor and middle classes since Nixon.
.....now learn English and stop writing and START READY something of African American Strength....
WHAT!!! WHAT do you mean "START READY!" What are you trying to say? Robert please... here, get your act together in English and express yourself clearly instead of using that subhuman language "START READY!" WTF are you talking about Robert, do you know?
Ava DuVernay, director of 13th, a necessary and overwhelming documentary about the impact of the United States’ prison-industrial complex on American communities of color, wants her audience to know the racial issues her latest project addresses can’t be compartmentalized to her work as an artist; they exist in the real world, and DuVernay exposes them with a burning intensity.
“There’s no segmenting [race] out for me, because that’s my experience… that’s not what I was doing [with the film]” she said during a Friday morning press conference, held hours before 13th’s world premiere as the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival in its 54-year history. Instead, she said she made the film while immersing herself in the struggles of people of color who came before her; the resulting film is a byproduct of her own curiosity, sparked by a culture of racism stemming from the days of slavery, through the Civil Rights movement, to today, strung together by a clause in the 13th amendment to the U.S. constitution, which states involuntary servitude is permissable “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
Thursday, October 20th 2016 at 9:34PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
13th amendment to the U.S. constitution, which states involuntary servitude is permissable “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Thursday, October 20th 2016 at 9:34PM Deacon Ron Gray
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Robert, I know when the 13th amendment was signed into law but that is just a small part of what's going on. you act like you have not even seen the preview for the interviews because if you did you know for a fact that the 13th amendment is not apply equally and that's what this documentary is all about.
Robert watch the documentary and then come back and let's have intelligent conversation, OK!!!
The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws, in the South in the early 1900s, were directed at black men. The first anti-marijuana laws, in the Midwest and the Southwest in the 1910s and 20s, were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans. Today, Latino and especially black communities are still subject to wildly disproportionate drug enforcement and sentencing practices.
Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional fir someone to be held as a slave. In other words, it creates freedom to all Americans. There are exceptions including criminals, there is a clause, a loophole. If you have that embedded in the structure, in this constitutional Language then, it’s there to be used as a tool for whatever purposes one wants to use it.
That Tool, that loophole, privatizing jails, pot and crack are the key component used to keep the poor black youth from experiencing The American Dream and perpetuate a new form of SLAVERY.
Decriminalization won't solve the problem Ron. The only thing that will solve the destruction of lives is legalization.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 12:55PM
Steve Williams
Ok!!! Maybe for Marijuana but cocaine and heroin NO! One good way to solve the 13 Amendment that allows "slavery" to still exist here in America in the 21st century is to apply the law on the books equally between the races.
Many currently illegal drugs, such as marijuana, opium, coca, and psychedelics have been used for thousands of years for both medical and spiritual purposes. So why are some drugs legal and other drugs illegal today? It's not based on any scientific assessment of the relative risks of these drugs – but it has everything to do with who is associated with these drugs.
The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws, in the South in the early 1900s, were directed at black men. The first anti-marijuana laws, in the Midwest and the Southwest in the 1910s and 20s, were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans.
Now that both white men and women are using drugs like cocaine and heroin those same laws that would lock up a Black man for 10 years, would be lenient with the law with a lesser sentence or none at all. You know, about coming to the low end buying drugs.
Ron, you can apply the laws equally but communities will still be destroyed. Pimps will still be pimps, whores will still be whores, and people of all ages will still be murdered and maimed, all because cocaine and heroin are illegal.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 3:23PM
Steve Williams
Steven, this was a plan that targeted Black and Hippies during the NIXON Admin, This war has nothing to do with a pimp or a whore. THE GOP knows that young whites and blacks will vote for the democrat and not for the GOP. Here's more proof.
Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story for Harper’s that Ehrlichman told him in 1994 that the Nixon campaign and Nixon White House considered those two groups to be their enemies. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman reportedly said.
It started way before Nixon Ron. The fact is, because America is full of people like you who have no idea about pimps and whores, nobody will do the right thing, not Obama, not Hillary, not even Donald Trump.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 6:09PM
Steve Williams
So, if you think that the WAR ON DRUGS STARTED WITH SOME PIMPS AND WHORES then you really don't want to believe the unjust history of those presidents and there staff, that I just put before you. Which in conclusion, you are apart of the problem.
That is not what I said about pimps and whores. It's the fact that drugs are illegal that destroys people's lives by creating the conditions for pimps and whores, murder and mayhem.
Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 9:29PM
Steve Williams
I told you who set up the conditions and why Steven but you still want to run from that FACT about the Nixon's administration. The War in Drugs was set up for the black man and the white hippie types.
You are the one talking about the War on Drugs Ron, not I. It was good Christian people like you that started the Temperance movement, and we saw how that turned out. It's good Christian people today that insist coca and opium, products of nature, need to be Federally legislated. And you see how that is turning out.
Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:58AM
Steve Williams
Nixon was no good Christian people like myself and there is no comparison and for you to say: " It was good Christian people like you that started the Temperance movement, and we saw how that turned out. It's good Christian people today that insist coca and opium, products of nature, need to be Federally legislated. And you see how that is turning out," That is just plain lunacy on your part.
All of what Nixon did from Watergate to The War on Drugs was the promote his right wing agenda, to divide this country and to ensure Republican Party dominance as a power grab for the big corporations, ALT Right and the oligarch's in The United States of America.
So, you can take that, was good Christian people like you statement and put that aside because Nixon and Ehrlichman was no good Christians, they acted like monsters to deceive the people of this country and the public trust that the people gave unto them.
Here, to a look that the proof: The sinister part about all that was, they knew that they was lying. Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYUFJLSOm...
Papaver somniferum is an annual herb growing to about 100 cm. All parts of the plant are strongly glaucous, giving a greyish-green appearance, and the stem and leaves are sparsely covered with coarse hairs. The leaves are lobed and clasp the stem at the base. The flowers are up to 120mm diameter, normally with four white, mauve or red petals, sometimes with dark markings at the base. The fruit is a hairless, rounded capsule topped with 12–18 radiating stigmatic rays. All parts of the plant exude white latex when wounded. The annual habit in combination with stem-clasping, glaucous, glabrous (or almost so) leaves are diagnostic for the species.[3]:87[4]:32
Varieties and cultivars Edit Papaver somniferum has many subspecies or varieties and cultivars. Colors of the flower vary widely, as do other physical characteristics, such as number and shape of petals, number of flowers and fruits, number of seeds, color of seeds, production of opium, etc.[citation needed]
Papaver somniferum Paeoniflorum Group (sometimes called Papaver paeoniflorum) is a subtype of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double, and are grown in many colors. P. somniferum Laciniatum Group (sometimes called Papaver laciniatum) is a subtype of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double and deeply lobed, to the point of looking like a ruffly pom-pom.
A few of the varieties and cultivars, notably the cultivars "Norman" and "Przemko",[5] have low morphine content (less than 1%), and much higher concentrations of other alkaloids. Most varieties, however, including those most popular for ornamental use or seed production, have a higher morphine content, with the average content being 10%.[6]
Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 5:40PM
Steve Williams
In the United States cultivation of poppies for food is illegal. However, this is not typically enforced for poppies grown or sold for food or ornamental purposes.[14][unreliable source?] In addition, "Opium poppy and poppy straw" are also prohibited.[24] As the opium poppy is legal for culinary or esthetic reasons, poppies were once grown as a cash crop by farmers in California. The law of poppy cultivation in the United States is somewhat ambiguous.[25] The reason for the ambiguity is because the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 (now repealed)[26][27][28] stated that any opium poppy should be declared illegal, even if the farmers were issued a state permit.[29] § 3 of the Opium Poppy Control Act stated: It shall be unlawful for any person who is not the holder of a license authorizing him to produce the opium poppy, duly issued to him by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to produce the opium poppy, or to permit the production of the opium poppy in or upon any place owned, occupied, used, or controlled by him.
This led to the Poppy Rebellion, and to the Narcotics Bureau arresting anyone planting opium poppies and forcing the destruction of poppy fields of anyone who defied the prohibition of poppy cultivation.[30][31] Though the press of those days favored the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the state of California supported the farmers who grew opium poppies for their seeds for uses in foods such as poppyseed muffins. Today, this area of law has remained vague and remains somewhat controversial in the United States.[32] The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 was repealed on 27 October 1970.[33][34]
Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 6:28PM
Steve Williams
I see that you ran like hell from my reply to your comments of Nixon and Ehrlichman being christians and the War on Drugs, which you could not defend, to Papaver somniferum because you are looking for a place to run and hide.
Steven, did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?
Ron, I gave you a link about the history of drug legislation in America and I did not say a thing about Nixon.
Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 10:35PM
Steve Williams
Under the Nixon administration is when the on drugs turn out to be, a war on the Republican Party opponents, Black people and the hippies or I should said the liberal whites who generally vote Democratic.
I see why you don't want to answer this question: "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?" Because you are supporting a man (TRUMP), a party (GOP) that has a direct link back to the Nixon's War on Drugs, a War on the Black Americans that is smoking marijuana at about the same rate as White Americans but being arrested at a rate 4 times greater and that link is Roger Ailes.
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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
The amendment stated in 1865 and 1880 and 1920...1940....1960....1990 and OCTOBER 16, 2016
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Do you know why Roger Ailes. is apart of Trump's top staff?
Do you know what Roger Ailes is doing for TRUMP?
If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
I did not review those links Ron. Did you know that papaver somniferum could be cultivated here in America, and opium provided to all those who want it, cheaply, with no attendant crime?
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:42AM
Steve Williams
STOP RUNNING FROM THIS QUESTION STEVEN. Once again, I see why you don't want to answer this question: "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?"
I did not review ANY of the information on those links Ron. Those links have no interest to me, but the question of the legality of opium does.
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 12:16PM
Steve Williams
If you want to continue on this topic, I suggest you review those two links because this information contained explains THE WAR ON DRUGS and the AVA DuVERNAY film 13 Amendment.
The question about legality of opium is a mute point.
If that is the subject you want to talk about, start your own separate blog on that subject, not here, do you understand ME!!!
The legality of opium is the salient point to the subject of your blog Ron. If you want to hide your head in the sand that is your prerogative. It doesn't change the fact that good Christian people like you are at the root of the "war on drugs" and the attendant mass incarceration.
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:03PM
Steve Williams
Since you have knot seen the link or understood the direction of this blog, you can't tell me a thing about good Christian people like and you are avoiding the plot that was set up and coined "THE WAR DRUGS" by Nixon and Ehrlichman and history tells us, that they was no Christian people like myself.
The sad part about this you know for a FACT you can't defend the HISTORY of Nixon and Ehrlichman and now the connection between Nixon and Ehrlichman and Roger Ailes, who now, is a top communication aid in TRUMP's campaign, who played a very important roll as another former Nixon aid, Roger Ailes continues the demonization of black and young people “night after night” on his network Fox News.
Nixon administration pursued policies that encouraged intrusive searches, arrests and stigmatization of its political opponents, still stands. Nixon’s use of enemies lists, wiretaps and other “dirty tricks” is well established. Such tricks included COINTELPRO tactics, which involved federal agents infiltrating anti-war and black power groups, creating infighting and getting the leaders addicted to drugs. Against this backdrop it is hard to believe the War on Drugs was not racial or politically motivated.
The legality of opium is not the answer STEVEN, treatment is so, people can resist the temptation of HEROIN ADDICTION. THINGS WON'T GET BETTER WITH THE WAR ON DRUGS UNDER TRUMP. I CAN HEAR TO CALL NOW "LOCK THEM UP!!!"
STOP RUNNING AND FACT THE KNOWN FACTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE GOP AND THE WAR ON DRUGS.
Stop fishing STEVEN and take time to look at the information that I have provided you about the content of this blog.
Here, to a look that the proof: The sinister part about all that was, they knew that they was lying. Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYUFJLSOm...
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Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:03PM Steve Williams
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Do you know why Roger Ailes. is apart of Trump's top staff?
Do you know what Roger Ailes is doing for TRUMP?
If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. ...."
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:59AM Deacon Ron Gray
Ron, all the denial in the world will not get you what you want, to reduce the incarceration rate. You act like this is some mock debate. The TRUTH is that good Christian people like yourself have too deep-seated a psychological need to save people from themselves, to ever solve the problem of mass incarceration.
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:48PM
Steve Williams
Robert,
Unless Roger Ailes and Trump have fallen out with one another, reports have it that Roger Ailes Is Advising Donald Trump Ahead of Presidential Debates. Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman ousted a few months ago over charges of s*xual harassment, is advising Donald J. Trump in preparing for the all-important passed presidential debates.
I see that you like my description of you.
If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
Hey Steven, The most high gave us the gift of FREE WILL. You do right and get rewarded, you do wrong and you get what you may not want, the universe works just that way.
Have you reviewed the links that I have put before you yet STEVEN?
Which one is it Ron, incarceration is unjust, or "the universe works just that way"?
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:10PM
Steve Williams
Both Steven, the universe provides good and evil, negative and positive, right and wrong, left and right, and up and down, all of these decisions are yours to choose from.
Both Steven, the universe provides good and evil, negative and positive, right and wrong, left and right, and up and down, all of these decisions are yours to choose from.
You know, just like you refuse to review those two links that I have provided you so, that you may have greater insight to this topic. Have you noticed that I can answer your questions with confidence and clarity?
I'll have a look at your links Ron and see what bearing they have on the solution to the problem of mass incarceration in 2016.
Friday, October 28th 2016 at 11:16PM
Steve Williams
So the young turk says it's all propaganda, and offers no solution.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 12:03AM
Steve Williams
The "solution" proposed in the second video seems to be more government initiatives to treat addiction. I STRONGLY DISAGREE.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 1:30AM
Steve Williams
The is universe, The Most High, God is good. Now, on the first one, you have called the Young Turks 6 mins and 29 sec,.
Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate and with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, exactly we can call it a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
The is universe, The Most High, God is good. Now, on too the first one, you have called the Young Turks 6 mins and 29 sec, all propaganda.
Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?
I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.
Ron, a Young Turks video is not any kind of evidence at all, as we've seen with the Chinese Towers BS.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:32AM
Steve Williams
And no Ron, I didn't call the video propaganda, I said that they said the "war on drugs" was all propaganda.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:35AM
Steve Williams
So Steven, you agree with the YOUNG TURKS Video?
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:44AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
I agree that what comes out of the mouths of 99.9% of our politicians, on the subject of drugs, is propaganda. That includes Pat Toomey and Pat Meehan, the two Republican congressional candidates on my ballot, who want to make sure I can't get pain-killers.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:58AM
Steve Williams
Let us fine tune your reply Steven, my question to you was never about Pat Toomey or Pat Meehan. The question was: "So Steven, you agree with the YOUNG TURKS Video?"
No Ron, I would NEVER agree with the Young Turks. They need to grow up.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 3:17PM
Steve Williams
They have no solution, just whining and complaining.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 3:24PM
Steve Williams
Just what is it that you disagree with?
Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?
I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.
The young turks don't have the courage to name the real solution. They have nothing of substance, just Erlichman this and Nixon that, nothing but whining and complaining.
Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:38PM
Steve Williams
I asked you a question Steven which you have not answered yet even after I have asked you twice. Now this reply of yours totally and strictly BULL💩 And did not answer any of my questions I asked you. That reply sounds like something you pulled right out of your backside, you know that place where you have your head. I just want to let you know, that will not fly hear.
Now try again.
Just what is it that you disagree with?
Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?
I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.
TRY HARD TO FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL!!!
Richard M. Nixon, the president who popularized the term “war on drugs,” first used the words in 1971. However, the policies that his administration implemented as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 dated to Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. This was followed by the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930.
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.[1][2]
"An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." The courts interpreted this to mean that physicians could prescribe narcotics to patients in the course of normal treatment, but not for the treatment of addiction.
The Harrison Anti-Narcotic legislation consisted of three U.S. House bills imposing restrictions on the availability and consumption of the psychoactive drug opium. U.S. House bills H.R. 1966 and H.R. 1967 passed conjointly with House bill H.R. 6282 or the Opium and Coca Leaves Trade Restrictions Act.[3][4]
Although technically illegal for purposes of distribution and use, the distribution, sale and use of cocaine was still legal for registered companies and individuals.
Edit Following the Spanish–American War the U.S. acquired the Philippines from Spain. At that time, opium addiction constituted a significant problem in the civilian population of the Philippines.[5]
Charles Henry Brent was an American Episcopal bishop who served as Missionary Bishop of the Philippines beginning in 1901. He convened a Commission of Inquiry, known as the Brent Commission, for the purpose of examining alternatives to a licensing system for opium addicts. The Commission recommended that narcotics should be subject to international control. The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909. A second conference was held at The Hague in May 1911, and out of it came the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention of 1912.
Domestic Background Edit In the 1800s opiates and cocaine were mostly unregulated drugs. In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50.[6] On the other hand, as early as 1880 some states and localities had already passed laws against smoking opium, at least in public.[7]
At the beginning of the 20th century, cocaine began to be linked to crime. In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, "Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of 'cocaine sniffing' or the 'coke habit.'" Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship. Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. The 1903 blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit, concluded, "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope we can get along without him."
Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908. In 1909, Wright attended the International Opium Commission in Shanghai as the American delegates. He was accompanied by Charles Henry Brent, the Episcopal Bishop. On March 12, 1911, Dr. Wright was quoted in as follows in an article in the New York Times: "Of all the nations of the world, the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation in Europe fences it with."[8] Wright further claimed that "it has been authoritatively stated that cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the negroes of the South and other sections of the country," though he failed to mention specifically which authorities had stated that, and did not provide any evidence for his claim.[9] Wright also stated that "one of the most unfortunate phases of smoking opium in this country is the large number of women who have become involved and were living as common-law wives or cohabitating with Chinese in the Chinatowns of our various cities".[10][11]
Opium usage had begun to decline by 1914 after rising dramatically in the post Civil War Era, peaking at around one-half million pounds per year in 1896.[12] Demand gradually declined thereafter in response to mounting public concern, local and state regulations, and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, which required labeling of patent medicines that contained opiates, cocaine, alcohol, cannabis and other intoxicants.[13] As of 1911, an estimated one U.S. citizen in 400 (0.25%) was addicted to some form of opium.[8] The opium addicts were mostly women who were prescribed and dispensed legal opiates by physicians and pharmacist for “female problems” (probably pain at menstruation) or white men and Chinese at the Opium dens. Between two-thirds and three-quarters of these addicts were women.[14] By 1914, forty-six states had regulations on cocaine and twenty-nine states had laws against opium, morphine, and heroin.[6][11][15][16]
Several authors have argued that the debate was merely to regulate trade and collect a tax. However, the committee report[17] prior to the debate on the house floor and the debate itself, discussed the rise of opiate use in the United States. Harrison stated that "The purpose of this Bill can hardly be said to raise revenue, because it prohibits the importation of something upon which we have hitherto collected revenue." Later Harrison stated, "We are not attempting to collect revenue, but regulate commerce." House representative Thomas Sisson stated, "The purpose of this bill—and we are all in sympathy with it—is to prevent the use of opium in the United States, destructive as it is to human happiness and human life."[18]
The drafters played on fears of “drug-crazed, s*x-mad negroes” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “Chinamen” seducing white women with drugs.[19][20] Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers and caused them to rebel against white authority. Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania testified that "Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain".[6]
Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914, The New York Times published an article entitled "Negro Cocaine 'Fiends' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks" by Edward Huntington Williams, which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from .32 to .38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.[6][11][15]
Despite the extreme racialization of the issue that took place in the buildup to the Act's passage, the contemporary research on the subject indicated that black Americans were in fact using cocaine and opium at much lower rates than white Americans.[21]
The impact of diminished supply was obvious by mid-1915. A 1918 commission called for sterner law enforcement, while newspapers published sensational articles about addiction-related crime waves.[23] Congress responded by tightening up the Harrison Act—the importation of heroin for any purpose was banned in 1924.
Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 8:33AM
Steve Williams
The act also marks the beginning of the creation of the modern, criminal drug addict and the American black market for drugs. Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919[24] that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations[25] and that the United States consumed 470,000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17,000 pounds in both France and Germany.[24] The Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States recorded that in the 7 months to January 1920, 528,635 pounds of opium was imported, compared to 74,650 pounds in the same period in 1919.[24]
Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 8:36AM
Steve Williams
I enjoyed the information that you shared in your first reply which confirmed the FACT that Richard M. Nixon, who was the first president who popularized the term “WAR OF DRUGS,” first used the words in 1971, which you cannot refute.
Thanks, Steven for the conformation of that FACT.
Also the information that you shared went places that my question for you did not address. I never asked you about the Justice Department and the Reagan administration’s on a thing, Did I?
With that said, you have not begun to address my first question to you of: Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
Now, what I find more interesting your second bit of information about The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law approved on December 17, 1914.
This information was nice to know but I did not ask you that question neither STEVEN. In your third post I had to pause for a moment, then I read on and I saw these LIES and the fears of the so-called law maker Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. in February 8, 1914:
The drafters played on fears of “drug-crazed, s*x-mad negroes” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “Chinamen” seducing white women with drugs. Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers and caused them to rebel against white authority. Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania testified that "Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain".
Now this Information sparked the First WAR ON BLACK PEOPLE under the guidance of THE WAR ON DRUGS, great information but still have not Answered my questions that I put before you Steven.
In your Fourth and Fifth posting missed the target of my questions to you altogether. Now don’t get me wrong STEVEN, the information that you have shared was great history leading up to what Nixon did but you have not refuted what I asked you yet! It is almost like if you was thinking, if you throw enough BULL💩 on the wall, maybe the FACT that he asked me a question about NIXON and Ehrlichman involvement in “THE ON DRUGS” will somehow, go away…
I have determined that you can’t refute anything that I have said to be anything but the true FACTS in this case and all you can do is run from my questions and post more unrelated BULL💩 and not put your attention on NIXON and Ehrlichman involvement in “THE ON DRUGS.”
You don't have to try again, if you can't pay attention to the questions of: Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?
1. Yes, War on Drugs began because America was ENTERING 1980+ ... "The High Technology Era"
AND all Americans NEEDED to be sane and sober ... WITH minds ready to LEARN
.....African Americans LOST so many JOBS, Opportunities and Education due to Drugs....1970-2016
2. Young Turks ARE
.... a political reform movement, which favored replacement of the Ottoman Empire's absolute monarchy with a constitutional government EXACTLY like the 2016 GOVERNMENT of Turkish President Recep Tayyip and Prime Minister Binali Yýldýrým
Ron, do we agree the thirteenth amendment slavery loophole was created in 1864?
Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 3:11PM
Steve Williams
We can also agree that you can't refute these question that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?
ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?
We can also agree on that too, correct?
TRY HARD TO FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL!!!
Okay, so we agree that history from 1864-2016 is 102 years, and from 1971-2016 is 45 years. And that for 102 years there was a thirteenth amendment slavery loophole.
Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 5:03PM
Steve Williams
Is that including Nixon and Ehrlichman involvement in 1971 "WAR ON DRUGS"?
Yes Ron, it includes Ehrlichman and Nixon.
Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 5:45PM
Steve Williams
Thanks for finally being a man about this Steve. When I get some time, I will explore another member of Richard Nixon's team that helped spread that LIE of THE WAR ON DRUGS into Millions of American homes across the country, Roger Ailes and FOX NEWS.
That's fine Ron, and you will continue to miss the root cause of legal slavery. Partisan politics will not solve the problem.
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:55AM
Steve Williams
why does the slaveOf steveAdam in 2016 ONLY answer to hisMaster and not an African American Citizen?
The topic is thirteenth amendment slavery loophole. This loophole was first exploited by the Democrats during the Woodrow Wilson administration. Just because they didn't come up with the clever phrase "war on drugs" doesn't mean it wasn't, and just like Nixon they used it for nefarious purposes. THAT is on topic.
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 11:31AM
Steve Williams
What is the matter Steven, don't let your heart be harden because you seen the connect between the NIXON Administration the gang of THREE." Nixon, Ehrlichman and Ailes, which is still on going to this day. This is a long ranged 45 plus year plan to paint the of image of BLACK GANG MEMBERS, INNTER CITY VIOLENCE, POLICE and DRUGS.
Now here comes Roger Ailes and The FOX NEWS, broadcasting FARE AND BALANCED NEWS of these images of young intercity black gang members being exposed smoking pop and crack cocaine being arrested at a rate, four times greater, then those of white people.
This situation will not be solved under a Trump administration but it may intensify, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE!!!
Like I said Ron, make opium and coca legal and end legal slavery.
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:14PM
Steve Williams
Wilson, the only Democrat besides Grover Cleveland to be elected president since 1856 and the first Southerner since 1848,[1] recognized his Party's need for high-level federal patronage.[123] Wilson worked closely with Southern Democrats. In Wilson's first month in office, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson brought up the issue of segregating workplaces in a cabinet meeting[124] and urged the president to establish it across the government, in restrooms, cafeterias and work spaces. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo also permitted lower-level officials to racially segregate employees in the workplaces of those departments. By the end of 1913 many departments, including the Navy, had workspaces segregated by screens, and restrooms, cafeterias were segregated, although no executive order had been issued.[124] Segregation was urged by such conservative groups as the Fair Play Association.[124]
Wilson defended his administration's segregation policy in a July 1913 letter responding to Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and founding member of the NAACP; Wilson suggested the segregation removed "friction" between the races.[124] Ross Kennedy says that Wilson complied with predominant public opinion,[125] but his change in federal practices was protested in letters from both blacks and whites to the White House, mass meetings, newspaper campaigns and official statements by both black and white church groups.[124] The president's African-American supporters, who had crossed party lines to vote for him, were bitterly disappointed, and they and Northern leaders protested the changes.[124] Wilson continued to defend his policy, as in a letter to "prominent black minister Rev. H.A. Bridgman, editor of the Congregation and Christian World."[124] Heckscher argues that Wilson had promised African Americans to deal generously with racial injustices, but did not deliver on these assurances.[126] Segregation and government offices, and discriminatory hiring practices had been started by President Theodore Roosevelt and continued by President Taft; The Wilson administration continued and escalated the practice.[127]
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:25PM
Steve Williams
The Birth of a Nation, along with the trial and lynching of Leo Frank for the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.[10] Under President Woodrow Wilson it was the first American motion picture to be screened at the White House.[11]
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:44PM
Steve Williams
No Steven, make opium and coca legal will not end legal slavery, all that will is make more people addicted to heroin.
No Ron, I do not have control over my body. I need Vicodin for chronic pain, that put me on disability 8 years ago, that I haven't been able to get for 2 1/2 years, because of the War on Opioids.
Monday, October 31st 2016 at 4:28PM
Steve Williams
Do you have health insurance Steve? If so, can you afford it?
I pay for my prescriptions out of pocket. Vicodin is about 50 cents a pill, not a financial burden.
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 4:27AM
Steve Williams
You say that Legalizing heroin and cocaine will end slavery, then what do you call addiction, is that SLAVERY?
If you are put in prison you will not get out until your time is served. If you are an addict you still have your free will.
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 9:30AM
Steve Williams
STEVEN, you are a SLAVE in prison and being under heroin addiction, you are are a slave to that DRUG until you get help or DIE.
Or you are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Uh huh.
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 11:31AM
Steve Williams
Steven, listen that you!!! You are sounding real foolish now. Is this what you really think? You are actually calling me a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Who will be that good Christian?
Let me tell you something right now and I what to make it real clear to you. I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU.
“Everybody knows the 13th Amendment of the Constitution says there shall be no slavery in the United States,” says DuVernay. “Most people don’t know that that is a lie. Right after it says there shall be no slavery, there’s a little clause, a little loophole, that says ‘except’ – the exception is, ‘except’ if we think you’re a criminal.”
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 9:46PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
I didn't call you a slave Ron. If ONE is a addict then THEY are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts THEM in jail. Correct?
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 10:05PM
Steve Williams
YOUR WORDS: Or you are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Uh huh. Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 11:31AM
MY REPLY: I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU.
Now you say: I didn't call you a slave Ron. If ONE is a addict then THEY are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts THEM in jail. Correct?
So, you agree with me that the person that is hooked on heroin and cocaine are the ones in slavery?
Then by your statement of legalization these drugs, then you are in favor of the institution of SLAVERY.
I agree that people are free to be slaves of their passions. That is not an INSTITUTION of slavery.
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 9:04AM
Steve Williams
So you think that being a heroin addict is someone's passion? WOW!!! I have never heard a child tell their parents that they want to grow up to be a heroin junkie or a cocaine addict, have you?
Heroin and Cocaine addiction should be looked at and treated as a illness, instead of flooding the Black community with these illegal drugs to take advantage of that legal loophole in the 13th Amendment to create the modern day SLAVE under the banner of "THE WAR ON DRUGS."
What a bunch of good Christian nonsense.
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 8:53PM
Steve Williams
I see that you have just went under cover by changing your photo and you still can't refute or answer a thing that I have said or answer any of my questions, (LOL) WOW!!!
'......What a bunch of good Christian nonsense. I agree ....people are free to be slaves of their passions. That is not an INSTITUTION of slavery. ...."
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 9:04AM Steve Williams
".....The young in our nations grammar and high schools have gotten worse...Hate crimes is on the raise, that to have gotten worse........ haters against The Civil Right Act, Equal Rights for Women ........ have gotten worse.......Trump talking about internment camps for Muslim being some high moment in this countries past.
Steven, this has gotten far worse then just the attitudes of some people and this man have not gotten into office yet! ...I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU......."
Monday, November 21st 2016 at 7:04AM Deacon Ron Gray
