Kassandra Frederique of the Drug Policy Alliance gives a keynote presentation at the White Faces, Black Lives conference held at Columbia University.
If war on drugs has failed, has harmed more families than it helped, and we cannot arrest our way out of the “drug problem,” then what is the moral responsibility of policymakers and institutions to communities most devastated by the war on drugs? Does the Movement for Black Lives and the “kinder, gentler drug war” era provide space to reconstruct a moral relationship between communities of color and government? If so, how? What is reparative justice? Can a reparative justice framework be applied to the war on drugs? What would that entail? Is New York ready to atone for the devastation of the war on drugs and its role in leading the country in punitive drug policies that resulted in gross racial disparities? Which communities should lead the conversation?
This video was filmed at the conference White Faces, Black Lives: Race and Reparative Justice in the Era of a “Gentler War on Drugs” held at Columbia University on October 19, 2016.
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