Will Crabb
March 2013
3 posts
February 2013
4 posts
January 2013
19 posts
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
—Elliot Erwitt (via timelightbox)
“In my life, I have never voted for a president with the expectation that he will selflessly serve the public interest, and that he never will take his own political viability into account, and that he will fulfill all my expectations, or even most of them, or even half of them. This is not because I am apathetic. This is not because I am stupid. This is because I am no longer seven-years old.”
—Charles Pierce, Esquire (via politicalprof)
“As you probably know, drug laws were created to ensnare racial minorities (the fact that we use the word “marihuana” results from a federal campaign to criminalize cannabis in 1937 by associating it with Mexicans). Michelle Alexander made an academic case in her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow, that the modern drug war created an underclass of citizens by dishing out millions of criminal records that make it difficult to vote, get a job, rent a home, receive student loans, and so on. “There are more African Americans under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began,” Alexander wrote in a recent article for Huffington Post. This explosive prison growth is attributed to several factors and various drugs, of course, but pot is the most popular illicit drug, accounting for more than half of all drug arrests, and it’s the drug that most Americans are ready to change the laws for.”
—“It’s Not About the Stoners,” in The Stranger. This story preceded the passing of Initiative 502 in Washington State, but is nonetheless a fascinating read for the ways in which it examines how drug laws have disproportionately affected minorities. (via cmonstah)
