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Rand Paul: "The War On Drugs Has Had A Racial Outcome"
realclearpolitics.com ^ | June 23, 2014

Posted on 06/23/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

"Three out of four people in prison are black or brown for nonviolent drug use. However, when you do surveys, white kids are doing drugs at an equal rate, and they are a much bigger part of the population. So, why are the prisons full of black and brown kids? It is easier to arrest them. It is easier to convict them. They don't get as good of attorneys. And, frankly, they live in the city in a much more collected fashion than in the suburbs, and so the police are patrolling the city more. But it is unfair. The war on drugs has had a racial outcome, unintentionally, but it has a racial outcome. And I want to try to fix it."

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KEYWORDS: drugs; drugwar; prison; randpaul; wod
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To: Chode

Rand Paul is aspiring to be a nit wit.
Even my college age sons friends are “so over” Rand Paul.
They all thought he was awesome a few months ago.


21 posted on 06/23/2014 7:32:59 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They control the market. Small wonder they are arrested more.


22 posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:05 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They control the market. Small wonder they are arrested more.


23 posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:05 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tailgunner Joe

And, frankly, they live in the city in a much more collected fashion than in the suburbs, and so the police are patrolling the city more. But it is unfair.


Where they live is their choice. Life isn’t fair. You use drugs and are stupid enough to do it in a area the police are patrolling then that makes you the idiot.

So glad Paul is outing himself now and not after a presidential primary win.


24 posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:20 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Tailgunner Joe
They don't get as good of attorneys.

this ass is supposed to be highly educated ? did he skip all his English classes or possibly didn't take any ?

rand paul wants to be president ? president of what ?

25 posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:43 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: SkyDancer

sellers are often well armed


26 posted on 06/23/2014 7:34:06 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What party is Rand Paul again? He sounds a lot like Jerry Brown these days.


27 posted on 06/23/2014 7:34:24 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Rand Paul is NOTHING more than an ambitious FOOL!


28 posted on 06/23/2014 7:34:36 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: gaijin
Eh…..I’m getting worried. I have a bad feeling.

Politics. He's working on getting minority votes.

29 posted on 06/23/2014 7:34:37 PM PDT by BAW (Remind me what Richard Nixon did that was so bad he had to resign as president.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“So, why are the prisons full of black and brown kids?”

Outstanding question! Maybe they are doing other stuff, and the drug charges are on top of them! Rape, murder, theft, every single other crime you can name! Maybe, just maybe, that has something to do with it. Do these people live in the real world? Spend some time in the courthouses and emergency rooms. Hell, just walk around for a little while, though I strongly recommend you go armed. There are no secrets, except the ones you choose to keep from yourself.


30 posted on 06/23/2014 7:35:07 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: BAW

Rand Paul is proving him self to be a lesser person than many thought. He’s a tool.


31 posted on 06/23/2014 7:35:55 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; GOPsterinMA; Impy; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Martin O Malley (Maryland) gave felons back the vote, Rand, and they vote Dem.

DUHHH!

Not impressed with it coming from you.


32 posted on 06/23/2014 7:36:09 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Tailgunner Joe
It takes drug users time to end up in prison. The black population has a longer history of large scale drug use.

The percentages will begin to even out given the current trends. It's not a racial thing, it's a rate of social decay thing.

33 posted on 06/23/2014 7:36:13 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: acapesket
then there's hope yet...
34 posted on 06/23/2014 7:36:33 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Drug dealing - non-violent drug use
Drug using - non-violent drug use

Doesn’t take a mental giant to know which one is going to get prison time. Rand is lacking.


35 posted on 06/23/2014 7:37:29 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Melowese Richardson - Democrat Vote Fraud Expert)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Rand Paul needs to STFU, everyday and everyday he sounds like a lib...toast


36 posted on 06/23/2014 7:37:43 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: cdcdawg

bump


37 posted on 06/23/2014 7:39:32 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

What he “has” is just rewarmed codswallop from his KOOK of a father! That didn’t ‘help”his KOOK of a father any and it SHALL doom Rand !


38 posted on 06/23/2014 7:41:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: cdcdawg
Paul completely ignores secondary factors such as gang violence, other criminal activity, and generational poverty (created by leftist policies) that explains the reason why blacks and browns are incarcerated more than whites.
39 posted on 06/23/2014 7:41:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race, Race

Is there any topic or social ill at all that doesn’t end up being a lecture on either racism or white privlege?

Is there any reasonable person who isn’t far past the point of taking discussions about racism seriously?


40 posted on 06/23/2014 7:41:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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