If the problem was just disparity in mandatory minumum sentencing, why didn't we just raise the penalty for powdered cocaine abuse/sale?
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To: a fool in paradise
She feels she won a major victory for her constituents.
2 posted on
08/03/2010 12:30:43 PM PDT by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Queen Sheila PING.
In summary, I I I, race card, I I I.
I omitted the photo. Hopefully she didn’t trample some poor soul who got between her and a camera.
3 posted on
08/03/2010 12:30:50 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: a fool in paradise
4 posted on
08/03/2010 12:31:20 PM PDT by
stylin19a
(Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
To: a fool in paradise
I’m surprised they didn’t reduce the cost of powdered cocaine so poor folk could afford the good stuff. ;-)
5 posted on
08/03/2010 12:31:45 PM PDT by
rhombus
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According to U.S. government statistics, 82 percent of federal crack cocaine offenders are African American and only 9 percent are white... How many federal prosecutions are there for crack vs. local prosecutions?
6 posted on
08/03/2010 12:34:32 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: a fool in paradise
What has done more to harm society, crack, or powder cocaine?
7 posted on
08/03/2010 12:34:49 PM PDT by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: a fool in paradise
"crack and powder cocaine, substances that are chemically indistinguishable,"
Well, the ethanol in pure grain alcohol is indistinguishable from the ethanol in near-beer but there is a major difference between the two. If you don't believe it let someone who has drank a quart of near beer drive you then let someone drive you who has drank a quart of Everclear. If you survive the latter you'll understand the point I'm making.
To: a fool in paradise
The reason for the higher penalties in the first place was because blacks were screaming that crack was a scourge destroying their neighborhoods, as opposed to powdered cocaine which was seen as a little upper and upper-middle class nose candy.
10 posted on
08/03/2010 12:36:16 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
To: a fool in paradise
God Almighty, the stupid bitch misses the whole point.
Crack kills. It’s sold to the young and poor by the young and poor.
11 posted on
08/03/2010 12:36:28 PM PDT by
onyx
(Sarah/Michele 2012)
To: a fool in paradise
To: a fool in paradise
You know how it is ~ the Democrats would whine that it was still unfair.
You get between a typical Democrat and his dope you could get hurt.
21 posted on
08/03/2010 12:40:57 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: a fool in paradise
There was a time, the 20 years or so that the Queen speaks about, when black communities were seeing crack trafficking involved in most of the crime that stalked among them, and therefore wanted to “crack down” (groan, a pun) on crack.
They got their wish, and their new pundits, like her, have baldfacedly stated that it’s “racist.” Unless susceptibility to crack really is a genetic thang and not a cultural thang, she’s just called black people fools.
I had the impression that the GOP, at least, had chosen to crack down (groan, there’s that pun again) on pushers rather than users.
22 posted on
08/03/2010 12:42:03 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: a fool in paradise
If the problem was just disparity in mandatory minumum sentencing, why didn't we just raise the penalty for powdered cocaine abuse/sale?
Then every white lawyer would be in jail for too long.
To: a fool in paradise
You have to be a loon to be concerned that the laws on crack are too harsh.
27 posted on
08/03/2010 12:45:20 PM PDT by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: a fool in paradise
I hate to agree with Hurricane Shanniqua, but I think she’s right. You can’t have two sentences for what’s basically the same type of drug. Do we have different sentencing guidelines for the same amount of THC if it’s in weed form vs hash form?
28 posted on
08/03/2010 12:46:44 PM PDT by
NorthStarStateConservative
(I'm just another disabled naturalized minority vegan pro life conservative.)
To: a fool in paradise
Oh, good. Now can she adjust the price difference between coal and diamonds? All just carbon, and the primary difference is the black-white color dofference. Clearly racist.
(Jewelry shopping this week!)
31 posted on
08/03/2010 12:48:08 PM PDT by
Teacher317
(remember dismember November)
To: a fool in paradise
To: a fool in paradise
“why didn’t we just raise the penalty for powdered cocaine “
I think there have been proposals to do just that that went nowhere.
As for crack and powder being the same chemically, that is not true.
36 posted on
08/03/2010 12:55:40 PM PDT by
DBrow
To: a fool in paradise
“According to U.S. government statistics, 82 percent of federal crack cocaine offenders are African American and only 9 percent are white...”
Is she admitting that the disparity in drug convictions isn’t attributable to our allegedly racist justice system?
38 posted on
08/03/2010 1:03:17 PM PDT by
Spok
(Liberalism is more of a mood than a philosophy. -Robert Bork)
To: a fool in paradise
More than two decades ago, based upon assumptions about crack which are now known to be false, heightened penalties for crack cocaine offenses were adoptedFalsehoods propogated by the Left... a cute little detail she does not feel the need to share, no exactly which assumptions those are. (I'd wager that a large portion of the black community would agree with some of those "false" assumptions!.)
39 posted on
08/03/2010 1:04:10 PM PDT by
Teacher317
(remember dismember November)
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