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porphyrian

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23. With "racialized" drugs, as mentioned above, such as crack in the 80's, combined with...
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:30 PM
Oct 2012

...mandatory minimum sentences, presuming a racial bias in political party membership, they could eliminate a whole swath of potential Democratic voters for decades. Which, it appears, they did.

Let's end it. n/t porphyrian Oct 2012 #1
K & R dchill Oct 2012 #2
Yep. Iris Oct 2012 #3
k/r...I would say a war on the poor, but yeah it hits black people disproportionately. limpyhobbler Oct 2012 #4
I definitely agree however theinquisitivechad Oct 2012 #5
If you pass a joint to someone you are technically a "purveyor".. Fumesucker Oct 2012 #9
There are. Igel Oct 2012 #11
obama's drug war is racist? hmmm nt msongs Oct 2012 #6
President Obama didn't start it. porphyrian Oct 2012 #10
nixon. 1971. HiPointDem Oct 2012 #13
There we go. He wanted to fight the hippies. n/t porphyrian Oct 2012 #14
no. the 'hippies' got their drugs without many serious repercussions, and were fading by 1971 HiPointDem Oct 2012 #16
Ahh, so it was racist from the time the term was coined. porphyrian Oct 2012 #20
pretty much. but just 'racist' doesn't cover it. HiPointDem Oct 2012 #24
True. It's racist, classist (given that it disproportionately affects the poor) and... porphyrian Oct 2012 #27
Always referred to it as "Nixon's Revenge" rurallib Oct 2012 #19
It dovetailed very neatly with Nixon's Southern Strategy. truebluegreen Oct 2012 #25
You know damn well Obama didn't start that war....either....good try though uponit7771 Oct 2012 #18
+ Just for being one of the stupidest comments and a strawman. n/t vaberella Oct 2012 #31
I would say people of color, seems latinos get quite a bit of it particularly Lionessa Oct 2012 #7
Yup yup yup...Just brown and darker. n/t vaberella Oct 2012 #32
It's a war on personal freedom former-republican Oct 2012 #8
kr HiPointDem Oct 2012 #12
I don't use drugs Aerows Oct 2012 #15
Yup ismnotwasm Oct 2012 #17
careful, you might start to sound like a libertarian quinnox Oct 2012 #21
Criminalizing drug use was also a means of selective disenfranchisement. Tanuki Oct 2012 #22
With "racialized" drugs, as mentioned above, such as crack in the 80's, combined with... porphyrian Oct 2012 #23
And Democrats went along with it. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2012 #29
This isn't really a partisan issue so much as a racist/classist one. porphyrian Oct 2012 #30
The whole criminal justice system and prison industry.. ananda Oct 2012 #26
In a nutshell. That's why we have to fight for-profit prisons, too. n/t porphyrian Oct 2012 #28
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