White Americans used crack more yet overwhelmingly white offenders escaped federal prosecution

Evidence

According to surveys conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, white Americans were “more likely than any other racial group to use crack.” Yet “the U.S. Sentencing Commission reports that about 96% of the crack defendants in federal court are nonwhite. And, records show, the majority are low-level dealers, lookouts and couriers rather than drug kingpins.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 415