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> That was only dreamed up by right wing media to justify continued racist criminal justice policies. From Slate, a left-wing publication: > Well, in 1973, in
by mieseratte 8y ago
> That was only dreamed up by right wing media to justify continued racist criminal justice policies.
From Slate, a left-wing publication:
> Well, in 1973, in New York, many black activists pushed for drug laws, and in the ’80s many black activists pushed for punitive crime policies and supported aspects of Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs. When Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 into law, the one that created the crack-cocaine disparity, Charlie Rangel was onstage with him. And at the time they pushed this because they thought previous policies were not doing the job and that they needed to get tougher on the drug problem in urban communities. And as the drug problem worsened, many of them continued to push for more punitive policies and more aggressive policing.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/02/why_many_black_politicians_backed_the_1994_crime_bill_championed_by_the.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/0...
- yardie 8y agoWe are reading different parts of the same article. The interviewee even stressed that the bill they supported was not the one they asked for. “What is often missed, however, is that most of those black activists and politicians weren’t asking only for toughness. They were also demanding investment in their schools, better housing, jobs programs for young people, economic-stimulus packages, drug treatment on demand, and better access to healthcare. In the end, they wound up with police and prisons. To say that this was what black people wanted is misleading at best.” https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/ https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-d...