Posted on 10/30/2015 5:18:15 AM PDT by McGruff
Fulfilling a longtime wish-list item of criminal justice reformers, Hillary Clinton on Friday will call for ending the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine as part of a larger criminal justice reform plan aimed in part at winning support in the African-American community.
At an event with African-American leaders in Atlanta, Clinton is expected to say that the current system, which doles out far longer prison sentences for crack cocaine than for an equal amount of powder cocaine, is racially discriminatory since African-Americans are more likely to use crack.
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White line Willie should be especially pleased.
“fulfilling a long time wish” when a Dem does it.
100 million unemployed or underemployed and Hillary thinks the big issue is crack or powdered cocaine sentencing?
So will her husband, the one with a “nose like a Hoover” finally go to jail?
Playing to her husband who is said to have a nose like a vacuum cleaner
Just what we need, more crack on the streets.
The disparity was put into place because a much lower weight of crack has the same potency as powdered cocaine. As a result crack dealers were getting light sentences as by powdered cocaine standards, the weight they were busted with was misdemeanor level.
Can't believe how it's invariably the Dems that use the racist assumption that we need to take it easier on certain crimes because Blacks 'just can't help themselves"...
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Those laws went into effect to protect black communities from crack. Now they want them eliminated because too many black people get caught breaking them. A lot of people forget the violence associated with the late 80’s/early 90’s crack wars.
A general question: Has the “crack epidemic” burned itself out? Some years ago, crack houses, crack ho’s, crack horror stories... they were everywhere. I’ve heard a lot less of them lately.
Has the popularity of crack dropped? Or is collective media interest just focused somewhere else?
Focused on the really important issues affecting the nation.
I’d say Punkin’ Thighs has a thing for booger sugar, but well, we don’t call her Punkin’ Thighs for nothing!
I feel the same about the trendiness of pro-marijuana legislation. The libertarian in me says, "leave it up to the states," but the adult in me says, "there's more to life than being stoned on weed, and the issue is very low in terms of priorities."
BTW if I were a black American I’d be hugely insulted by such a disgusting & obvious pander.
Hell, to make up for the scourge of slavery, why doesn’t the US just exempt Blacks from all current and future laws.
Oh, wait . . .
Any one remember Lynn Bias? The greater sentences for crack were the result of black politicians being pressured to do something to halt the epidemic of crack deaths after Bias died from it.
Actually, I would not mind at all if yuppies doing blow would serve the same sentences that pushers of crack do? Start hitting the users and the sellers will dry up.
Democrat delusions:
BAD: Hot dogs, cigarettes, morality, Christianity, guns, trans fats, Constitution, Founding Fathers, American Flag, financial success
GOOD: Pot, Cocaine, sodomy, Islam, Government power, Rainbow Flag, financial failure
We could do this all day long. They are nuts.
Playing to get "Barry's" endorsement, while at the same time, lightening any potential fuiture sentence for Bubba.
Next!
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