Posted on 01/09/2018 3:53:26 PM PST by Joe Dallas
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A white Kansas state lawmaker arguing against the legalization of marijuana suggested that it and other drugs were originally outlawed in part because blacks were predisposed to abusing drugs because of their "character makeup - their genetics and that." State Rep. Steve Alford, a 75-year-old Republican from Ulysses in the state's southwestern corner, apologized Monday for remarks he made Saturday during a public meeting at a hospital in Garden City. One NAACP leader called Alford "an idiot" over the remarks.
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Well, he’s done...
He should just stick to basketball.
Oh whatever you do DONT TELL THE TRUTH.
Libs go absolutely nuts. Which is what they are.
That was a broad generalization and a clumsily expressed thought for a career politician. He could have said essentially the same thing, if he had focused on progressive generations of poorly educated people with few job prospects.
The moment he uses race to describe those in this situation, most people don’t hear anything after that.
It was probably criminalized because more and more whites were smoking it. As long as it stayed in the black neighborhoods, it "wasn't a problem"...
At least he’s honest about the main reason it was criminalized in the first place.
Sooooooo what exactly was the “truth” this guy said?
His understanding of history is terrible. His understanding of genetics is pathetic.
Last time I looked the only places to legalize weed in this nation are inhabited by lots of white people.
“At least he’s honest about the main reason it was criminalized in the first place.”
What is your evidence that genetics of blacks somehow make them more susceptible to addiction to drugs than members or other races?
And being that you are an expert on genetics and addiction, what is the genetic cause of the widespread opioid addiction in the rural Midwest?
Didn’t Washington, D.C. legalize it?
Marijuana was criminalized back in the 1930s. One of the reasons claimed that it would make white women want to have sex with black men.
L
Some kinds of stupid can’t be fixed
looks like it. Somehow I doubt the Feds are letting that slide there.
“...In mid-April, Pennsylvania passed legislation to legalize medical marijuana, bringing the total number of states (plus Washington, D.C.) with some form of legal pot to 24. The majority of those states have legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes, however recreational marijuana use is fully leg al in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia.”
The truth is to a liberal as a cross is to a vampire.
Every addict abuses drugs because of character defects.
and everyone else....
The guy’s a living breathing moron. You’re defending him????
Is that crickets I hear?
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