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Drug dealing a minority business
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"You can't dispel the fact that that exists. It's well known that we look into the paper at two things, the death page and the arrest and court log to see if there is someone we know, Ford said.
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Hurting their own community
Former gang member Juan Rivera, who is Puerto Rican, stopped dealing drugs and hanging out with gang members in 2003 when he realized he was hurting fellow Latinos.
"(Gangs are) hurting their own community; we're killing our own kind. If you're angry, go be angry and do something useful. How many of our people are involved in politics, Juan Rivera said.
"Right now I only have $15 in my pocket, but I feel a lot better than when I had $500 from heroin, Juan Rivera said. "People get involved with drugs in terms of the money they can make.. The thing is we need to give these kids the opportunity to make money, to give them something to do so they don't have to go to drugs. I'm trying to be that person, to get out of that mold so kids don't have to be high risk,
Time on their hands
Miggie Velez, the coordinator of youth programs for the Spanish American Center in Leominster, runs afterschool programs to try and prevent kids from getting involved with gangs and drugs.
"Young people who have a single parent who works a double shift have too much time on their hands. They can either hit the streets or go to programs, Velez said.
"In the past 10 years, I have never had a child in my program become pregnant. That's significant, Velez said. "If you talk to my kids, 100 percent of them don't do drugs, but they can tell you what the drug of choice is in school, and they can all tell you they know someone who sells or uses. If you have that many kids telling you they all know someone who sells or uses, you have a problem,
Poverty and isolation
Ford said the connection between minorities and drugs is based on a lack of opportunities.
"The root causes of a lot of these things are poverty and isolation within the community, Ford said. "It's hard to talk about crime in the community without talking about joblessness, particularly in a minority community,
Ford said the minority community in the region is growing, but the community programs for minority youths aren't.
"Almost half of our population is very young, and the teenage unemployment rate in urban areas is double or triple that of white teenage unemployment, Ford said. "Kids want money. There is a high dropout rate and no jobs, so the underground drug trade has become like a dual economy. It puts people to work,
Ford said he feels just as many white people are involved in the drug trade, but they are not selling on street corners and, therefore, not arrested as often.
"If I'm out there selling drugs, and I'm visible, of course I'm going to get arrested and show up disproportionately in the paper, Ford said.
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Javier Rivera believes many white people are involved in selling drugs.
"A lot of times you get the drugs from the white guy up in the hills, but he's a little bit smarter so he doesn't get arrested, Javier Rivera said. "I don't think drug dealing breaks down to race, I think it breaks down to money and opportunity or no money and no opportunity,
Because the majority of the people buying drugs are white, Ford said everyone shares the blame of the drug trade.
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