11-21-2021, 11:24 AM
(11-21-2021, 10:42 AM)BengalYankee Wrote: But what you are skillfully ignoring is the FACT that African American leaders/pastors begged political leaders including Clinton, Biden, etc to do something that was ravaging their community. Crack cocaine = high crime in urban areas, PERIOD. Powdered cocaine bad as it is/was did not constitute a high crime in non-urban areas as it did in urban areas. Don't get me wrong both forms of cocaine are bad as well as the result in the respected communities.
Yes harsher sentences were given for crack cocaine buying/selling/possession but that was because of high crime and the urgency by African American leaders/pastors.
I realize that, you're preaching to the choir. I literally got sick of walking through the blood in the projects during the late 80's and early 90's. I fully understand the situation. But the point I am making and you are dancing around is that since that Crime Bill was passed, the African American community has pointed to it as racist and blames it for the disproportionate number of black males locked up in prison, all the while supporting the guy who wrote it. That's having it both ways. The law was either just, or it was not. If it is just, then people should stop whining about how racist it is, if it is unjust, then blame the guy who wrote it instead of trying to deflect it onto the other party.
