Rob ford smokes crack again

Ford smoking crack cocaine last weekend. The appearance of a second video apparently showing the mayor smoking crack may undermine his hopes of re-election in October. He should have resigned and disappeared from public life. Bill, he has his job because there are no means to relieve him of his elected position.

However, he has been stripped of most of his powers by city counsel. Make a one-time donation. Change in Sentencing: Crack v. Powder Cocaine. While race is coded into the language of drugs, there is rarely any acknowledgement or reflection about the racially disproportionate incarceration policies and sentencing guidelines that made the war on drugs, buoyed by past media coverage, so disastrous for communities of color.

Instead, you get a circus. There is also the question of white privilege. While the butt of jokes, Ford as of this writing was neither out of a job nor in jail. However, when coverage of Ford takes the shape of a cultural punchline centered around the novelty of a white man using the wrong drug—not to be acknowledged, only subtly implied—we have taken a step back towards a middle-school lunchroom level of seriousness: Ha ha, your mayor smokes crack!

While to many the actions of Rob Ford are shameful, perhaps the bigger shame falls on a media that was instrumental in the public embrace of a failed drug war then—and a racially tinged circus today.

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