Funny you should bring that up -
Local man accused of eating dog while high on drugs
June 25, 2012 6:50 PM
"Waco Police say a man ate part of a family dog while under the influence of K-2."
Posted on 06/26/2012 7:32:23 PM PDT by kristinn
In remarks to Black journalists this past weekend virtually unreported in the mainstream media, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett said reducing the prison sentences for crack cocaine is one of the three reasons African-Americans have to support President Obama's reelection.
The Root, a Black-oriented website owned by the Washington Post, reprinted a blog report by the Maynard Institute's Richard Prince on Jarrett's appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans.
Prince reported on Jarrett's side meeting with a group of Black reporters and columnists:
On Saturday afternoon, Jarrett spoke with members of the Trotter Group of African American columnists and with regional reporters, and again outlined what she considered the Obama administration's successes, among them funding for historically black colleges and universities; health care reform, which she said will disproportionately help African Americans; and reducing disparities between penalties for possession of crack and for powdered cocaine.
The only other mention in the media of Jarrett's bragging about Obama helping the crack cocaine business as being good for the Black community was by DeWayne Wickham who wrote in his Tuesday column in USA Today:
Obama supporters need to unabashedly trumpet what the president has done for blacks — such as increased funding for education, universal health care, and a sharp reduction in the sentencing disparity for possession of crack cocaine instead of powder, all things that Jarrett said have disproportionately benefited them.
Mainstream media outlets that covered Jarrett's appearance at the NABJ but failed to report on her bragging about Obama's easing the penalties for crack cocaine being good for Blacks were CNN, Politico, the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News and BET.
Obama has drawn criticism in the African-American community for prominently helping gays, illegal aliens and feminists without helping Blacks. Obama and Jarrett thinking his softening the sentencing for crack cocaine, which has plagued African-American neighborhoods for decades, will help him with Black voters is strange politics.
She’s right. Most crack heads ARE black. I’m glad they finally recognized the FACT.
Crack is a lot cheaper than straight coke and was therefore more likely to be used in poor urban areas (read black neighborhoods). The hope was that stiffer penalties would dissuade blacks from using crack.
Paging Tyrone Biggums!!!
http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/4kqie9/chappelle-s-show-tyrone-biggums-classroom-visit
Well, since he already has 97% of the black vote, just what does this gain him? I guess he is after that last 3% of the blacks that actually think about the consequences of their vote. Heck, he just might get them at the rate of lawlessness that he seems to be pushing.
Does the Washington Post understand that about half their potential readers are conservative?? And probably more than half their advertisers?
Guess the ‘doting court eunuchs’ of the MSM fail to notice that their job is to present the NEWS. Not clean it up so Democrats look good. That’s what PR firms do... Shame on them.
What reduction in crack cocaine sentencing? And what did the Obama Administration have to do with it?
Ronald Reagan appealing to the GOP base:
"A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; ...that we will become that shining city on a hill."
Hussein Obama appealing to the Democrat base:
"...a sharp reduction in crack cocaine sentencing...."
* Sadly, NOTHING comes to mind for Milt Romney :(
Poor Oprah spent months behind bars for smoking crack. Oh wait, that’s right, Stedman talked her down from the pool house roof after she called herself a golden god, then she relieved herself in her vomitorium, had her afternoon tea and daily fetus blood transfusion, followed by quickie dialysis treatment and nutmeg Starbucks venti enema. It was a living hell. She was ready to cry all about it the next day after handing out cars to everyone in the audience. Poor poor Oprah.
“I always figured that Obama was already getting 100% of the crackhead vote.”
That includes voting for himself, as his “friend” Larry Sinclair would testify to.
“Wonder if she thinks the same about Fried Chicken and Watermelon?”
We been eatin’ watermelon all week, and really enjoying it...and we do fried chicken regularly too...fried in coconut oil, of course...and we ain’t black. And btw, or it goes w/o sayin’, we don’t do crack...or anything else...
“We need an affirmative action policy to help black crack dealers gain the Martha’s Vineyard market.”
I’ve been wanting to build projects there for years. Section 8 would be good...for a start.
I can’t quite picture in my mind a crackho named Muffy...........
Doesn't anyone remember how Sigmund Freud got into psychiatry?
Dr. Ernst Fleishl von Markow had developed a morphine addiction treating his painful thumb, and the young Freud figured there was one cure - cocaine and plenty of it. He started dosing Fleishl regularly, and miraculously, his morphine dependence seemed to be on the wane. Things were looking good. But the tide turned, and before long Fleishl had developed an enormous addiction - equivalent to one full gram of pure cocaine a day.
He became paranoid, experienced convulsions and tactile hallucinations better known to cocaine aficionados as "coke bugs". This is a sensation caused by chronic cocaine toxicity where the sufferer feels that there are insects or snakes crawling under their skin. Fleishl spent hours at a time trying to pick them out.
Eventually, he settled on a morphine-cocaine combo more affectionately known today as a speedball - the very same cocaine cocktail that sent John Belushi to oblivion. Fleishl suffered the same fate, dying in agony six years later in 1891.
The more things change...
If Carl Rove had said that there would be riots in front of the White House within 24 hours.
Val is right...we’s needs our crack!
Only if a white Republican says it.
This is exactly how Marion Barry returned to the mayorship of Washington DC after the “B*tch set me up” stint in jail.
He and his political team determined that the largest single sub-group within the Black demographic was family/friends of those in jail. He launched a very broad appeal campaign at them, everything from reduced sentences to better conditions out at Lorton. And rode the results right back into office.
I’m not really sure what to make of this. On one hand I am appalled (at least as much as I can be at this point, given the numbing effects of being appalled so much over the last 4 years) at the craven cynicism of it.
On the other hand, it strikes me as a desperation move - seeming to demonstrate that Obama’s team is seeing issues with his most loyal supporters and attempting to lock them up ... without any concern for voters who will be turned off by this. Maybe the whole gay-marriage thing really has turned off a good portion of the Black Community to him. And they’re figuring that an appeal along these lines will lead to a net-positive return on support (Blacks come back to him, with the people who will be offended enough to either vote the other way or stay home already considered write-offs).
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