Lewdog
Gold Member
There is a reason the numbers of Blacks being arrested for crimes and are locked up and serving longer jail time, it's called systemic racism. Don't believe me? Look at the 100 to 1 law created in the 1980's were people arrested for crack were given jail sentences the same as those with cocaine sentences under mandatory minimum sentencing at a 100 to 1 ratio. It was SPECIFICALLY created to target BLACKS and the government was spreading this lie that crack cocaine was more addictive and worse than powder cocaine, so if a person was caught with 5 grams of crack, they would receive the SAME mandatory minimum sentence as a person caught with 500 grams of powder cocaine. Do you have any idea how many rich white people got busted with cocaine in the 1980s and didn't get shit for it?
Those laws were passed AT THE REQUEST of black leaders to give their communities more protection from the drug that was, to quote them, "committing genocide on their own people".
ONly someone ignorant of what was actually happening at the time, could present this as "evidence" of racism.
I lived though that time, and I saw people use both. From my observations, crack cocaine is worse, and should be dealt with more severely.
YOu might disagree. Maybe I am even wrong. But my opinion is sincere and not designed to punish crack users more than power users.
Like hell they were. Black leaders did not ask the government to pass laws that put more young Black men in jail in laws at a 100 to 1 ratio to a drug predominantly used by whites. Take that ridiculous argument somewhere else. I can name several other laws that also target Blacks like Hot Spot policing, Broken Windows Policing, the abuse of the plea bargaining system and three strike laws, along with mandatory minimum sentencing that would more often affect Blacks than whites. There are several reasons why Blacks are arrested and jailed at disproportionate percentages and it isn't about them committing crime at disproportionate amounts.
Brock Turner was convicted of RAPE, and the judge gave him probation because he was white from a "good family" and with a good opportunity to become a contributing member to society and putting him in prison for rape would ruin that. If that had been a Black kid from a poor family that would NEVER have happened.