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To: Kaslin

Hopefully this black man’s words create a wave that turns into a tide sweeping Trump to a tidal wave of victory.


2 posted on 07/08/2020 1:27:54 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired
Joe Biden is directly responsible for the mass incarceration policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which decimated the black community. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill which imposed mandatory minimum sentences, disproportionately putting hundreds of thousands of young black men in prison.

Back in those days a lot of Black Leaders were pushing for these laws. If I remember correctly both the Revs Sharpton and Jackson pushed for these crime bills.

They wanted to reduce crime in Black neighborhoods.

I remember one bill in the 80s that raised the penalty for dealing crack that was pushed by Black Leaders because crack was in the Black neighborhoods in much greater quantities than White neighborhoods and was much cheaper.

It worked. The revolving door of recidivism stopped rotating quit so fast.

But the effect was exactly what State Rep. Vernon Jones says.

Black men are disproportionately incarcerated in US prisons.

Sorry pal, you can’t have it both ways. If you want safe neighborhoods you have to get the perps off the streets and the only place to put them is in jail.

3 posted on 07/08/2020 1:57:21 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: tired&retired

Nope. He got slammed for it. He has stood tall


4 posted on 07/08/2020 2:01:40 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: tired&retired

AGREED


19 posted on 07/08/2020 5:59:10 AM PDT by southernindymom ( IT)
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To: tired&retired

I think a lot of decent, sane black Americans are scared sh**less by white punk Communists who claim to be rioting in their name.


23 posted on 07/08/2020 6:31:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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