Boo hoo, Trump is smarter than he let's on..

[Benton]

(06-27-2017, 11:25 AM)Au165 Wrote: You were supposed to let him respond! No fun.  Don't forget that the CIA backed Contras basically started the crack epidemic by having the ability to freely and easily import large amounts of Cocaine to LA where it was dispersed by freeway Rick Ross. Ross later says that without the huge discounts the Contras provided he wouldn't have been even close to successful as he was. Ross ends up doing 18 years for distributing the cocaine that the Contras brought in. His source and middle man to the Contras only ends up doing 2 years because he turns agent for the DEA. Eventually the DEA forces immigration to give him a green card even though he has a drug conviction so he can continue to work for them.

Basically, Regan and his cabinet facilitated the crack cocaine epidemic while simultaneously telling everyone to "just say not" and to put them in jail over it. That is not even looking at the disparity in sentencing standards for Crack (predominantly a black community drug at the time) vs cocaine (a drug predominantly used by white affluent people).

sorry

It's only been the last few years I've started taking an interest in our prison explosion. There's several things to point to at state or federal levels that caused it, a "perfect storm" of policy shifts where we went from 'you made a bad decision, here's a wake up call' to 'you made a bad decision, your life is never going to be the same.' The 70s through 80s were where the bulk of this happened. I don't think the intent was institutional racism, but it has impacted blacks more than whites.