" Between 1985 and 2000, drug offenses accounted for two-thirds of the spike in the inmate population. By 2000, Blacks comprised 62.7 percent and Whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders in state prisons—and not because they were selling or using more drugs. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America