Posted on 09/30/2017 12:19:39 PM PDT by ColdOne
Rev. Al Sharpton argued that the fight to legalize marijuana is the next civil rights cause in a Thursday op-ed for the Guardian.
Sharpton, an activist and preacher, said it’s crucial to decriminalize marijuana because laws against it have oppressed minorities over the years, making it difficult for them to get good educations and other opportunities.
“It is a civil rights cause that we should not postpone, but accelerate during these dark and difficult times,” Sharpton said. “For Democrats and progressives, the arguments have always been clear: generations of Americans, overwhelmingly people of color, have been imprisoned and starved of access to higher education, housing, and economic opportunities, and stripped of their inalienable right to vote thanks to non-violent acts.”
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smoking pot prevented them from getting an education, not it being illegal.
Pot makes people stupid.
Does he actually have a church or does he just preach on MSNBC?
Oxygen thief...
Oh, are we past having sex with trees yet? I’ve lost track.
Dear Al,
There’s a lot more non-black tokers than black, so I guess we’ve all been denied education and jobs.
Why don’t you go back to defending black hoaxes and pushing people to suicide?
No Al - you stupid twit -
The minorities do it because there’s no legitimate business so it’s a fast and easy way for them to make money without them doing any work.
Legalize it and pot use will not only drop (Because they won’t buy pot from “the man”) but heroin and other illegal drugs WILL.
These past few months have been enlightening to me - we’re not seeing a problem because of minority oppression - we’re seeing a problem where a large chunk of our population doesn’t want anything to do with this country and actively works against it because of some perceived slight. To that sense, government programs won’t work, bending laws to this group won’t work.
Al Sharpton, champion of black inferiorists nationwide.
Hello? The move to legalize weed is well underway. He’s just blowing smoke, wants to turn it into something racial.
Not so Sharpton has figured out many if not most blacks like to smoke that ganja. Which results in law breaking deeds. For which they get in trouble.
And that’s rayciss.
So weed must be a civil right.
“shut up Sharpton!”
Lol. Pot use will not drop because it’s legal. Nor will it increase.
Hello? The move to legalize weed is well underway. He’s just blowing smoke, wants to turn it into something racial.
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And he sees it as an opportunity to steal some more money.
Perhaps we should humor Al.
Instead of EBT cards, Section 8, and other free stuff, we should give them all the free weed they can smoke.
Happy now, Al?
This phony is against everything American
And is opposed to federalism, wants the gubmint to intervene, issue an edict.
Al Baby. Put the bong down and back away.
His brain doesn’t use oxygen as it is a dead organ.
I’m a big fan of making the Enemy more stupid. Repeal all drug laws...
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