Wait, whut?
Posted on 02/02/2021 1:12:50 PM PST by grundle
As a member of the U.S. Senate, Joe Biden made is so that blacks who used cocaine got longer prison sentences than whites who used cocaine.
In June 2019, the New York Times reported:
Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration
During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system – and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.
As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.
During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.
Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.
That same month, the New York Times also reported:
Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.
On the other hand, President Trump gave early release to thousands of people who were victims of Biden’s racist crime bill.
In July 2019, the Washington Post reported:
3,100 inmates to be released as Trump administration implements criminal justice reform
The announcement came at a news conference to discuss the Trump administration’s progress on putting into place the First Step Act, a criminal justice bill President Trump signed into law in December.
Since the act’s passage, Rosen said, 1,691 people convicted of crack cocaine offenses also have received sentence reductions. That is because the measure retroactively applied a different sentencing law meant to resolve the disparity between penalties for those convicted of possessing crack cocaine and those convicted of possessing powder cocaine.
Here’s a video of one of those people who was given early release by Trump:
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1319358716987277312
For Democrats who support the racist war on drugs, here’s some really good, brand new information.
President Biden is continuing Senator Biden’s racist war on drugs.
Lisa Monaco, Biden’s nominee for Deputy Attorney General, had previously helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of heroin.
The Daily Caller has just reported:
Justice Department Nominee Lisa Monaco Prosecuted Black Man Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Selling $20 Worth Of Drugs
President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as deputy attorney general helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of heroin to an undercover police officer.
Lisa Monaco, who Biden tapped for the Justice Department position, was one of the assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted a case in 2003 against Reginald C. Steward, a Washington, D.C. man who was charged following an undercover drug bust.
Steward was arrested in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 20, 2002 and was charged with unlawful distribution of heroin, according to court records.
He was convicted at a jury trial on April 16, 2003, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Institutional racism is a very real problem in this country.
And I can’t think of any bigger example of institutional racism than the racist war on drugs.
I hope Democrats are happy with their election of a President who has a long track record of supporting the racist war on drugs.
Reap it.
Joe Biden can’t even recall he 80s or 90s or his actions back then, and he has no idea what he’s doing now and knows nothing about all the EO he’s signing.
Somebody should pose a question to him regarding one of those XOs, any of them, and I’m pretty sure he’d respond with not knowing what the questioner was talking about.
Back then crack was seen as a scourge of the black communities with crack whores and crack babies and people just leaving crack pipes in Hunter Biden’s mouth while he slept. On the other hand, powdered cocaine was seen as just a little upper and upper middle class nose candy. Sure there was an occasional heart attack or septum rebuild, but even in popular culture it was played for laughs. See Harry Ellis in Die Hard for an example.
“See Harry Ellis in Die Hard for an example.”
“You missed some...”
How the phurck else can they DESTROY the black man while blaming the white man?
These people (i.e., Democrat politick-scions) are hate-artists!!
The same war on drugs KamelToe Harris prosecuted and persecuted minorities with.
#BlackAddictsMatters
Wait, whut?
Joe needs to check on Hunter
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