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In the 1980's drastic mandatory sentences were given out for users of crack cocaine as opposed to more lenient flexible sentences of users of regular cocaine despite them being essentially the same drug... The real kicker though was that white people were more disproportionally found to have drugs in the car than black people were. I.E. if there was a bias, it should have been to stop and search cars with white drivers, not black ones.
I worked with a tough skinny black lady from New York who'd had her own construction/clean up crew there and bid jobs, but we were accountants. She told one of her sons not to go out on Halloween, but he did. He got pulled over by a cop and busted for mescaline I think it was. His court dates kept coming up, the cop wouldn't show, the atty would ask for a continuance, and she'd gone to 7 different courts, but at the 8th court she got a black judge. The cop was a no show again. She explained about the seven other no show court dates and how she had to take time off work each time, and mescaline was a white boy drug not a black drug, it was planted, and her son's blood sample had been clean. The judge dismissed the case. Oh no, no racial animus there, no systemic racism. Just a no show cop. Ya know it's different when it's someone you know and you believe them. And that's not all...
Her other son was walking home from work at McDonalds late at night and got his head bashed in by a skinhead that was doing an initiation. So her son goes from heading to business college with 3.95 GPA to where he can flip burgers for a living - brain damage. She sues and then has to get tough with her own attorneys so he has something because he's damaged. No racial animus there, we've come such a long way, but it's still there, just below the surface, waiting to bubble up again.
Wanna be a real Patriot and be proud of your country? Don't support a demagogue spewing hate
