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whites are much more likely to be drug addicts and black so why do racial
stereotypes continue to persist louis there have been ever since i mean for a
long time but the whitney houston death really brought on a lot of the racial
undertones including people calling biographer into crack cores and you'll
remember although the racial language that we saw around with verizon and this
is kind of promised by the idea that most drug abusers are are black which is
simply not true and on fox news we set off a lot of the buying into this eric
bowling
we saw john cho blank and shampoo
on the los angeles uh... a radio show
talking about whitney houston is a crack o and wondering how it took this long
for her to die and this really is based on the idea that most drug abusers are
black and it's simply not true african-americans are actually
significantly less likely they have substance use disorders than their white
counterparts based on a two thousand nine study based on a number of other
studies louis so this is a constant thing
uh... a white high school students are seven point one times as likely to use
*** the black students
uh... sixteen times as likely to use ecstasy the black students and even when
you look at crack
which is attributed to to african-americans colloquial e by many
of these individuals
white high school students are almost eight times as likely to use crack then
are black students i don't think facts are going to get in the way of what
people want to talk about on fox news
on the radio programs and at the water cooler that's of never gotten in the way
no no force not and i think when you're talking about a celebrity
i think that's the factor is the celebrity factor using my
other than
race but
that's just me