Paul, and African-American male who grew up in public housing, is coming out of prison after serving 20 years for his conviction of drug possession with the intent to distribute. How would one view Paul's experience through the sociological imagination? As someone who fell in with the wrong crowd and sold drugs to fit in As an individual with a drug addiction that led him to become a dealer to support his habit As a result of an ongoing war on drugs in the U.S. that disproportionately affected poor minority males As a dangerous individual who was in possession of a large quantity of drugs
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