Don’t Hate Me Because I’m White: A Rebuttal to White Privilege and the Drug War

By Glenn Langohr

Is white privilege in the United States creating another slave "caste" with the the War on Drugs by targeting only people of color? Drug war and prison expert Glenn Langohr says no. He illustrates that drug addiction is colorblind. Using his life in and out of prison as a meth dealer, Glenn outlines how political "tough on crime" platforms and a 99% conviction rate have more to do with mass incarceration.

Glenn goes on to say that "playing the race card" in regards to the drug war is enabling the blame game and fosters resentments that lead to more addiction, crime and mayhem. He proposes solutions using his own recovery and that of others, including blacks, who have climbed out of an overzealous justice system.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Glenn Langohr
• Release date: May 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201854836

Glenn Langohr

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Introduction

My Story

I’M A MIX OF ITALIAN, Irish, and German descent so you would think I would qualify for some of this White privilege stuff I keep hearing about.

It wasn’t the case for me. My parents had a unique divorce in the late 1980s where my dad tried to get my mom to come back for marriage counseling by not letting her have contact with my siblings and I. At 16, that reshaped the direction my life took; it went from playing competitive sports to running away with my younger brother.

One of the first places we landed was living in the garage of a marijuana smuggler who had trashcans full of the green stuff from Mexico. We literally had little beds set up in the garage right next to it.

You might be able to see where this is going?

If you guessed that my White privilege swooped in, straightened my path, landed me at Harvard and up the corporate ladder because of my skin color, then, uh, nope. If you guessed that I lived through an extended period of drug addicted crime, went to prison four times and became an author who published over 70 books, then, yep, you guessed it.

Having lived through years of incarceration for drug dealing crimes, I would like to point out that Mass incarceration has grown because of the Drug War and political Tough on Crime stances that politicians use to get elected. Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate and author of The New Jim Crow, claims that it is White privilege exerting itself and making another slave caste by locking up people of color; she also goes on to say that the Drug War is racist.

This distinction must be made so this fight for social justice isn’t painted with too broad of a brush. Plus, ascribing racism to all of law enforcement enables people of color by keeping them angry. It gives them a reason to justify drug addiction and drug dealing, which can certainly advance to murder and mayhem.

Before you start yelling your statistics at me that people of color fill up our prisons at a much higher percentage than Whites, I will tell you that drug addiction, mental disorders and divorce are color blind. Whites become drug addicts just like Hispanics and Blacks. So in truth, it comes down to desperate situations, resulting in desperate actions, resulting in court cases, resulting in as close to a 99% conviction rate as possible.

There are people who talk about the Crack Cocaine laws targeting Blacks and people of color; however, if you read Seth Ferranti’s book, The Birth of Crack and Hip Hop, you will learn that the laws adjusted to this era of such a high level of violence and murder on the streets. This scenario is similar to how law enforcement dealt with the Italian Mafia; when they were warring and violence was reaching epic proportions, many of the Italians tried to say they were being profiled and frisked for being Italian in court proceedings.

In the early 1990s, Meth became more popular. White people who became big time drug criminals leaned towards Meth. I ran that dope all over southern California for one of the best Meth Cooks in San Bernardino—it was pretty close to the TV show Breaking Bad but in real life. Still don’t believe me? Well, I can tell you that the real way to turn the Meth a blue color—like in Breaking Bad—is to raise the PH level while cooking it by putting a piece of tin foil in it.

I never ran into one Black Meth Cook. Of course they exist, but the point I am making is that I could throw statistics at you that White people go to prison for cooking meth while Blacks go to prison for selling crack. So should a White convict yell out of his prison cell, Are you racially targeting me for cooking meth?

Manufacturing meth became a potential life sentence due to the extremely violent nature of the act, similar to how the crack epidemic enacted harsher sentencing protocol.

In 2003, the New York Times reported a huge shift in the racial makeup of U.S. prisons for that decade.

The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization working to cut down incarceration numbers, analyzed prison populations from 2000-2009. The organization found that rates of incarceration for Black women dropped down 30.7% and 9.8% for Black men. Ironically, the same report found that there was a spike in White incarceration rates. The rate for White women increased 47.1% and 8.5% for White men. The article blamed the increase on the growing meth abuse and