Nice try, but it's not clear-cut like you say. Crime varies state to state.
Most drug policy was just a thinly veiled attempt to throw black people in prison, and it worked. There's a reason street drugs, like weed and crack, are treated differently than white-collar drugs like cocaine.
Lots of people got literal decades in prison for smoking weed. Do you believe that was fair? Let's not play stupid. The motivation was racist, and continues to be racist.
I mean, some states like Georgia have modern slavery. That's not a euphemism or exaggeration. Prisoners, almost all black individuals, are forced to work in establishments like McDonald's and Golden Corral for well under minimum wage. They have to work their 40 hours, and if they don't work they stay in prison perpetually.
The rate of parole in Georgia for non-violent crime is 8%. It should be 80%. There's a prison-industrial complex here. It's no wonder then we lock people up for petty crimes like smoking weed and then turn around and let people get away with white-collar crime.
It's not that I'm caught up in "identity politics" (lol). It's that y'all are unable to comprehend institutional, systemic racism exists even when there's no debate. Even when there's mounds and mounds of evidence. Even when we can literally trace modern prison-work program back to Jim Crow. You see all of that (or maybe you don't), and you refuse to acknowledge it.
If we give people the power to perpetually imprison people, they will. It's not a coincidence that the people today in modern slavery are almost all black. It's not a coincidence that the drugs black people are more likely to do come with multi-decade sentences, even if not dealing. It's not a coincidence that program intended to release those on good behavior are also used to justify perpetual deprivation of freedom of self via "bad behavior".
Nice try, but it's not clear-cut like you say. Crime varies state to state.
Most drug policy was just a thinly veiled attempt to throw black people in prison, and it worked. There's a reason street drugs, like weed and crack, are treated differently than white-collar drugs like cocaine.
Lots of people got literal decades in prison for smoking weed. Do you believe that was fair? Let's not play stupid. The motivation was racist, and continues to be racist.
I mean, some states like Georgia have modern slavery. That's not a euphemism or exaggeration. Prisoners, almost all black individuals, are forced to work in establishments like McDonald's and Golden Corral for well under minimum wage. They have to work their 40 hours, and if they don't work they stay in prison perpetually.
The rate of parole in Georgia for non-violent crime is 8%. It should be 80%. There's a prison-industrial complex here. It's no wonder then we lock people up for petty crimes like smoking weed and then turn around and let people get away with white-collar crime.
It's not that I'm caught up in "identity politics" (lol). It's that y'all are unable to comprehend institutional, systemic racism exists even when there's no debate. Even when there's mounds and mounds of evidence. Even when we can literally trace modern prison-work program back to Jim Crow. You see all of that (or maybe you don't), and you refuse to acknowledge it.
If we give people the power to perpetually imprison people, they will. It's not a coincidence that the people today in modern slavery are almost all black. It's not a coincidence that the drugs black people are more likely to do come with multi-decade sentences, even if not dealing. It's not a coincidence that program intended to release those on good behavior are also used to justify perpetual deprivation of freedom of self via "bad behavior".