Again, let us separate your sentence into meaningful wholes;
Which bad choices lead Blacks to go to prison for drug offenses at much higher rates
versus
although whites are actually more likely to use drugs.
Many Americans, blacks, whites, hispanics, or whatever, go to prison for drug offenses.
They are undeniably in prison for making very bad choices:
* Engaging in a drug-dealing or drug-abusing lifestyle.
* Embracing a gangsta thug culture.
* Doing some small time in jail for a drug-related offense, but failing to learn a lesson from it, and going right back to the drug dealing and/or drug abusing.
Whites constitute the largest racial demographic currently incarcerated.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp
And drug offenses account for the lion's share of why people of all races are incarcerated.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp
Do inner-city blacks go to prison for drug offenses at a higher rate than do hispanics and whites? Yes. But not because they are being targeted for being
black drug dealers and
black drug abusers. They go to prison for drug offenses at a higher rate than do hispanics and whites because they constitute the largest racial demographic in the inner-cities, and they have made the poor choices to engage in drug-dealing and drug abusing.
Is it your assertion that cops in the inner cities look the other way to whites and hispanics abusing the same drugs as blacks, but only the blacks get picked-on and arrested?
That is ridiculous.
Blacks from the inner city get arrested more often than whites and hispanics because there are more blacks living in the inner cities than whites and hispanics.
If I walk into a room containing seven blacks, two hispanics, and one white guy, and I fling a bucket of paint into the crowd, guess what?
More blacks than any other race in that room are going to end up with paint on them.
Re; whites being more likely to use drugs, you are talking apples and oranges.
Apples: Inner-city drug abusers (of all races) generally use/abuse marijuana, and they abuse crystal meth, crack cocaine, hydrocodone, oxycontin, and heroin.
Oranges: Suburban dwellers and college students generally use/abuse marijuana and prescription medications.
There has been an explosion of drug use (marijuana and prescription meds) among suburban housewives and students on college campuses over the past few decades, and yes, the majority of soccer moms and college students are white.
Similarly, there has been a steady increase in the uses of illegal street drugs in the inner cities, and yes, the majority of inner-city residents are black.
Black inner city residents are free to make the same choices as white college students;
They may choose to use and abuse drugs or they may choose not to use and abuse drugs.
We
all have choices to make, and we are all free to make those choices;
Work hard, achieve, learn, grow, succeed, and prosper
or
remain stagnant, use drugs, and let somebody else pay the bills.
Do urban blacks have less choices than suburban whites?
No.
Are urban blacks painted into a corner because of their environment, and because their so-called leaders espouse a philosophy of perpetual victimhood, unaccountability, and racial animosity toward the hated 'rich whites'?
Yes.
Are they also painted into a corner because their own government takes a perverse pleasure in keeping them dependent on handouts, and therefore practically-guaranteeing that the poor urban blacks will always vote for (mostly Democrat) political candidates who promise them monthly checks, cell phones, and free housing?
Hell yes.