While it is true many black men end up in the penal system, it is also true many black men don't. If you have been reading my posts for the last four years, you know I am not going to defend the War on (Some) Drugs.

I know how virulently the left hates the idea of abstinence, but it does work when it comes to staying out of jail. If you don't commit the crime, you don't do the time.

Somewhere along the line, individuals, no matter what color their skin happens to be, have to come the grips with the reality that the only sure way to stay out of prison is not to break the law.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson