Cigarette smoking is a disgusting habit; It smells bad, stains your teeth, damages your body, etc - But that doesn’t make increasing the tax on the habit a good idea. If we stop and look at the effects of increasing the tax on cigarettes we are left with only two possible outcomes; Neither of them are good and at least one of them is immoral. Of course, that didn’t stop our legislators.
I have a great friend, one of my best, we’ll call him Bob and he had an interesting experience today. Now, I’m a black conservative and I certainly didn’t vote for Obama - but that doesn’t matter this is where we are now and hopefully he ends up being a wonderful president. Now, down to brass tacks. Black folks, you and I need to have a word. We need to sit down and talk about some truth. Black folks, you complain about stereotypes - you complain about the way people characterize you - and then I hear stories like the one I heard today and I weep for an entire race and culture. You’ve lost your way, you’ve forgotten what matters, and frankly great people (i.e. Martin Luther King Jr.) died in vain thanks to your behavior.
