As much as I hate to say anything to defend Joe Biden I have to be true to history.
When that law was written Crack Cocaine was destroying the Black community. Crack was cheap and quickly addicting. The leaders of the Black communities around the country were crying for help.
The law was what the Black community wanted. The wanted strict and harsh punishment for those individuals that were selling crack on the street. But as usual people seldom think beyond the near-term results of legislation.
Now, years later that legislation is putting the majority of young urban Black men in jail on a felony charge at some time in their life.
The Law of Unintended Consequences has made fools of them all. Biden gave them what they wanted. Does that make him a racist? He is but I don’t think pushing this law through is proof.
Maybe because Joe taught Hunter all about Hookers and blow.
Yes. And crack was a street drug with gangs shooting it out and sending way too many innocent bystanders to the morgue. Was powder cocaine a drug of abuse in Hollywood and various other elite, mostly white enclaves? Yes. Were the movie stars and other elite white people murdering each other wholesale in turf wars? No.
And that's why crack was treated differently.