Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[BengalYankee]

(11-20-2021, 11:18 PM)Sled21 Wrote: I remember it well, I was right in the thick of it. That said, the harsher sentences given for crack cocaine vs powdered cocaine became the rallying cry for those saying the law was racist. And they are still saying it. They just forget who wrote it.

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.