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Originally Posted by dyna mo
it's my understanding clinton was not lying when he spouted those stats, his crime bills and such worked in a lot of ways. but the blm pov is that racism within the law enforcement system and judicial system caused an inordinate amount of blacks to get caught up in it. i'm not saying racism is THE cop problem we all face today, but it is part of the problem.
as far as i know hills has not denounced her husband's legislation.
i found the recent outbursts by both clinton's to be revealing.
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personally i have mixed feelings on the assertion the 90s law was racist. It did effect the black community disproportionate. crack sentences are harsher than cocaine ones, & arrest rates for black far outexceeds whites.
but jonny law didnt make crack sentences harsher to target blacks. crack was responsible for a spike in crime, so they targeted crack as a more serious threat to public safety. hence higher deterrent theory from harsher sentencing. which effected the black community worse. esp as black people sell in public streets far more often than whites, who mostly sell behind closed doors.
but i ask, is it really the laws fault, in the end? to me, leftist ideology has no home for personal responsibility. BLM talks like their people are innocent & race cops swept them to jail. But dont the people in jail commit crimes to get there? BLM never speaks to the recent assertions of ray lewis. they dont protest their own.
IMO, end the illegal drug trade, the black murder rate falls 80%. poverty has existed for millenia without the blood that spills due to the allure of drug dealing.
