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Comment sections for this article have some serious "all lives matter" vibes. These policies likely matter to black people, especially black men, because they're disproportionately impacted by them.
They're 3.6 times more likely to be arrested for possession. But almost 10x more likely in some red states.
https://graphics.aclu.org/marijuana-arrest-report/
Want to know what's a big barrier to economic success? A felony like getting busted with cannabis.
Why Crypto? Well a disproportionate number of Black people don't trust the banks or financial services in general, and are under serviced by them. There is a generational mistrust of banks due to discriminatory practices in the banking sector. They're five times more likely to not even have a bank account than white households. This makes loans to start a business harder to get, it increases costs to cash cheques and pushes black people towards less traditional financing or banking services like crypto.
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/building-trust-financial-system-key-closing-racial-wealth-gap
Folks, I'm just saying, we all know that you too are impacted by these things, but it's not out of line at all to direct messages to those who are impacted the most.
When a hurricane hits Florida, threads don't full up with comments "what about Maine?"