Joe Biden has spent most of his adult life involved in Politics from 1973 until 2009 he was Delaware Senator Joe Biden and from 2009 until 2017 he was Vice President Biden.
He now has his sights on the white house. So this thread is opened for discussing what he has done for Black America after all he says Black America should get a fair shot? OK what has Biden done in 44 years for Black America? What legislation has he sponsored or cosponsored that specifically targeted towards the black community?
The presumptive presidential nominee outlines key issues his administration will address in an effort to bring equity to Black communities.
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Well, he made sure that a lot of blacks didn't have to work for a living....
A Princeton professor argues that well-meaning progressives helped imprison record numbers of African-Americans.
www.newsweek.com
Biden used the law to respond to the criticism that liberals were soft on crime
The greatest push to criminalize and incarcerate came under Bill Clinton, who oversaw more expansions of mandatory minimum sentences than any other president. His signature crime bill, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, funded state prison construction and the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, increased mandatory minimums and applied the death penalty to 60 crimes.
Clinton triumphantly declared that the law was "the toughest, largest, smartest federal attack on crime in the history of our country."
Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware used the law to respond to the common and erroneous criticism that liberals were soft on crime:
Let me define the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is now for 60 new death penalties. That is what is in this bill. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party has 70 enhanced penalties.... The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is for 100,000 cops. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is for 125,000 new state prison cells.
By the time Clinton left office, the number of people under correctional control was seven times greater than at the beginning of the Johnson administration, and the black-to-white ratio for incarceration rates had risen from 3-to-1 to 6-to-1.
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