Posted on 08/12/2013 8:51:37 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement of significant changes in the Justice Department’s pursuit of mandatory minimum sentences highlights a new willingness on the part of the Obama administration to engage on issue of race.
It’s the second public policy area touching on race where Holder — the nation’s first African American attorney general — has flexed his muscles in recent weeks.
Just last month, he said Justice would challenge voter ID laws adopted in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision to gut a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Holder’s actions come in conjunction with President Obama's recent impromptu discussion on the Trayvon Martin verdict and a scheduled appearance by the president at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington later this month.
Civil rights leaders and minority lawmakers applauded Holder’s latest move, in which Justice won’t pursue mandatory minimum sentences on many non-violent drug crimes.
They called it part of an encouraging push by the Obama administration to address issues of racial inequality.
“It has been well documented that a disproportionate share of stiff mandatory sentences for low-level, non-violent crimes typically falls on low income populations and communities of color,” Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), said in a statement. “The measures introduced by the Attorney General provide a fair and balanced approach to sentencing.”
Jennifer Ng’andu, the director of the National Council of La Raza’s Health and Civil Rights Policy Project, called the steps “long overdue.” She stressed that sentencing laws also disproportionately affect Hispanics, who are more than twice as likely as whites to be admitted for a drug offense.
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Marcia Fudge? Really? You can’t make this stuff up.
Content of one’s character be d@mned.
The way I understand this, the pixies who wrote this are saying that all drug addicts are minorities so we need to “engage” about race. Weird.
Holder wants his homies out of jail so he can sign them all up to be BO’s brownshirts.
Seriously?
You got it.
LMBO!!
Open the jail doors and let the thugs return to their hoods.
I sure don’t care.
Errr, aren’t drug abusers ALL ethnicities?
No, he want VOTES.
Yeah, right...
MORE favoritism for Blacks, who commit disproportionately the bulk of Crime, yet, we should not mention the FACT.
If you don't pay income taxes, you should NOT be allowed to Vote.
If you don't show Voter ID for fear of being Arrested on Outstanding Warrants, you should not be allowed to vote.
Yes; Minorities will be most-affected by that, but look what the parasitic tribal units are doing to us Taxpayers right now.....
Yeah, right...
MORE favoritism for Blacks, who commit disproportionately the bulk of Crime, yet, we should not mention the FACT.
If you don't pay income taxes, you should NOT be allowed to Vote.
If you don't show Voter ID for fear of being Arrested on Outstanding Warrants, you should not be allowed to vote.
Yes; Minorities will be most-affected by that, but look what the parasitic tribal units are doing to us Taxpayers right now.....
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‘nuff said
- and to George Zimmerman -
Get a serious .44 or a .45 -
- Blue Glasers
- 3-4 shots to the upper body mass
I prefer the trunk of a burned-out Buick
- down by the river in New Joisey
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The all-important felon vote!
Well, that and he needs to free up prison space for Tea Party members.
Since Holder’s announced policy is clearly in violation, ipso facto, of the 14th Amendment, and virtually all civil rights legislation which forbids discrimination by race, Congress should impeach him for violation of his oath of office.
Impeach, convict, remove, imprison.
“Jennifer Ng’andu, head of ... LaRaza’s Health and Civil Rights Policy Project...”
Really! It is getting harder and harder to tell satire from reality these days.
LaRaza and LULAC are basically the Klan or Black Panthers in a sombrero.
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