Should blacks vote for the clintons

Banks and Business run the Country.

Politicians run the people.

 

No, I said that they didn't belong bars not that they didn't commit "crimes." There are a lot of different "crimes." Do you think that every black person in prison in American is there for rape, murder and drug trafficking?

First off, non-violent drug offenders don't belong in jail. The US is the only developed country that incarcerates them at such a high rate, and this disproportionately hits the black community.

EG marijuana. Blacks and whites consume it at the same rate, yet blacks are FOUR times more likely to get arrested for possession.

https://www.aclu.org/feature/war-marijuana-black-and-white

Everybody knows about the disparate sentences for crack and powder cocaine possession even though its the exact same drug. It's only now that there's an epidemic of the heroin addiction in white communities that they're talking about getting rid of these draconian drug laws.

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/04/sym...ricas_startling_double_standard_on_addiction/

The genesis of the entire "war on drugs" was to stop black people from protesting the government.

http://www.ibtimes.com/war-drugs-ra...ere-designed-target-black-people-anti-2342035

A lot of black people also constantly get swept up for petty shit due to the continuous level of contact with police, and the amount of petty charges eventually lead to prison time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/the-divide-by-matt-taibbi.html

Some states have turned petty offenses into serious crimes, which lead to disproportionate rates of incarceration in certain communities. A perfect example was what the Georgia legislature did when it made driving with a suspended license a felony.

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/23...rgets-blacks-latinos-undocumented-immigrants/


If you want to sit here and claim with a straight face that the composition of the US prison population hasn't been engineered by lawmakers and that every single person in prison is a danger to society and belongs behind bars, then this argument isn't gong to end well for you.

 

Damn fam dropping knowledge bombs

 

No, I'm well aware of the disparity.
Also quite aware of the crack vs coke prison guideline disparity (seriously, who isn't by now).
Drug addicts I feel belong in rehab, not jail, and have always thought this.. Driving without a DL as a felony is ridiculous, as are small possession weed laws.

I'm also not going to condemn every law on the books without knowing them, nor would i claim millions are in jail who don't belong there because they committed non-violent drug crimes.
As for cumulative petty charges due to police interactions, please Fred, come to Philly where even multiple convictions don't mean a thing...they walk the streets until they commit murder or some other egregious crime.

In all though, I'm not disagreeing, I wanted to know where your "millions of black men" assertion came from. I do feel that law makers have constructed Prison et al to acquire finances and free labor (industrial complex and the private prison boom), because it's a huge business. My brother told me this decades ago that its one of the top 3 for the u.s economy.

ps: Im going to read through each link you posted when I get a better moment tonight.

 

Truer words never spoken. Especially Banks.

 

*Editing completed.*

 

As a former corrections officer, I can tell you that there are black men in prison for just about everything. A lot of times their being in a maximum security prison is because of the following reasons.

1. Overcrowding. Many institutions have this problem with overpopulation. More inmates are coming in than getting out.

2. Being sent to a maximum security prison at the order of a spiteful judge. Law & Order. A defendant in court cannot be a total idiot to the judge.

There are some who belong in prison. There are some who should be sent somewhere else. Let the prison fit the crime. Not this ham-handed attempt to ruin someone's life by trying sending him to hell because of a traffic stop or a disturbance of the peace.

 

At least if Trump gets in he will probably be taken out. One less racist loser in the world.

 

What makes him racist? Are you just piggybacking off of what everyone else is saying or did your own research?

 

It doesn't really take any kind of "research". Listen to 2 minutes of that imbecile speak and even a child could quickly decipher the kind of person he is.

 

My thoughts exactly. He hates muslims, mexicans, women, his head is so far up his own ass.

 

Quit talking bad about Massa Trump. He is the bestest, smartest, most compassionate white man ever.......

 

I'm not a follower. I did my own research.

 

Not to mention his clearly racist and bigotry tendencies, he is a straight up fascist; first clue is his desire to control media, straight up from the first page in the fascism for dummies handbook. He also have not mentioned once, how he is going to do any of the things he"promises". Why people support this clown is beyond me. The rest of the world is laughing and scratching their heads st this 7 ring circus. We will lose any and all credibility with the rest of the world if he is elected and he will run this beautiful country back to the ugly ages of the 50s and 60s. Civil rights will only be a memory. It's very clear. This dude is a megalomaniac , prime to start a new Franco era

 

They have plainly told everyone exactly why. Donald Trump speaks to & for them. He represents their values & beliefs. It's that simple. I know everyone wants to believe that a section of the population could not possibly be that knuckle dragging & simple but they are.

 

I know. And it scares me to hell that people want to support sunshine with no substance or refusing to tell HOW he is going to accomplish these things. And the rest of his tendencies, his save us all if we have that many knuckle dragging, backwards people in this country. Do they think it's a hike? Like when that dude won American Idol a number of years back?????

 

This is the first I'm hearing of this. It's hard to miss news about Trump, so I'm curious as to where/when he said this.

As for this assertion, even IF he said it, there's no way he can control the media, unless he buys the 6 companies who own 90% of the media we see every day in this country. And even Trump isn't THAT rich.

This infograph is disgusting:

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

On a side note: I've tried repping Frederick and TDK, but I have to spread the reps around, but both of you are so on point. So, I will personally thank you here for bringing some sanity to this thread. Thank you. Many times thank you.

 

I agree with everything you said. I really hope for your sake he doesn’t get in. The dude is so racist whoever doesn't know that has been living under a rock. He hates everyone. He'll screw the country for sure and create another war.