Poverty and Substance Abuse

Poverty and substance abuse go hand in hand. There is a whole race of people being destroyed by the ills of capitalism, such as in the way of drugs and alcohol are being pushed on us. We are doing everything to survive in this country except believing that God brought us through all the ills of living in poverty because we are Black and gifted strongly enough to withstand with this foot on our necks. When this country is in a recession and everybody is doing badly, we do worse. It seems to me that the sins and ways of this country are on our backs. Why are our children and grandchildren, who are so beautiful and smart, locked away in prison? Just trying to survive in this country.