11-21-2021, 12:10 PM
(11-21-2021, 11:24 AM)Sled21 Wrote: 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.
Who exactly were they going to support that had an alternative view? If HW Bush was in office, do you actually think he wouldn't have employed a similar countermeasure? Are you trying to paint the Republican Party of the 90's as weak on drug crime policy? The War on Drugs itself started during an administration in which Bush served as VP.
Given that there are only two realistic options, what did you want them to do? Vote for Gatewood Galbraith? LOL. There wasn't a viable candidate in existence in either party in that era that would have taken any path other than the one that the public would perceive as being "tough on drugs". If they did, they'd have lost whatever election they ran in in a landslide.
It's false to try and apply blame to Clinton or any administration in this case. If blame is to be assigned, it's to a majority voters who fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that all drug crime needed to be punished as harshly as possible. It's to a media that scared the shit out of everyone with a TV by running stories and sensational headlines that made the average American think that their kids were all going to become or be harmed by a horde of zombie drug addicts if something heavy-handed wasn't implemented quickly.
