President Obama knows something about being a low-level, nonviolent drug offender, such as the kind the Justice Department today exempted from harsh mandatory prison sentences.
In a sense, he was one himself once, although the young Barry Obama was never arrested or charged with a crime.
Obama wrote openly in his 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” about using marijuana and “maybe a little blow” during his high school days in Hawaii in the 1970s. Biographer David Maraniss reported that Obama was even a pot-smoking trend-setter and leader in the “Choom Gang.”
But decades later, openly reflecting on the “stupid” choices he made, Obama has hinted that his career trajectory could have been different if he had been arrested and charged. A disproportionate number of young African-American men are put behind bars for low-level drug offenses, at 10 times the rate of whites, according to the NAACP.
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Setting the example for all levels of criminal activity.....all the way up to violating the Constitution!
ReplyDeleteLegalize pot!
ReplyDelete" A disproportionate number of young African-American men are put behind bars for low-level drug offenses, at 10 times the rate of whites, according to the NAACP. "
ReplyDeleteMaybe because they are 10 times more likely to commit crimes?
No news here.
1135
ReplyDeleteyou are everything that is wrong with this country, in particular the eastern shore.
ignorant racism.
If they were a little more respectful when the cops approach them and used some manners maybe the cops wouldn't have reason to further suspect them of wrong doing and subsequently finding drugs on them.
ReplyDeleteFacts are not racist. They have no agenda. For anyone to claim that white bank robbers go to jail because they robbed a bank, but black robbers go to jail because they are black is really reaching to find "racism". Quit blaming white people for black people's poor choices, fatherless households, disdain for education, and dependent mentality. White people can pay for your apartment, your food, your electricity, your medical care, your phones (plural), and your day care, but we cannot make you keep your kids off the street at 1AM, pay attention in class, or make the fathers have any responsibility. THAT stuff is on YOU and sadly, YOU aren't getting the job done. Facts are not racist.
ReplyDelete12:27, nice that you live in a glass house. Have you ever read or heard the news?map
ReplyDeleteUr exactly right 12:35! 12:27 you have the right to leave the eastern shore. We don't want you here anyway!
ReplyDelete12:27. LOOK up a little thing called "statistics". It's not that they are arrested 10x more than whites, They get arrested because the commit 10x more crimes than whites.
ReplyDeleteRead the book!
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ReplyDelete1135
you are everything that is wrong with this country, in particular the eastern shore.
ignorant racism.
August 14, 2013 at 12:27 PM
No, YOU are what's wrong with this country, particularly the eastern shore, and everywhere else there is section 8.
We all know who the REAL racists are, and now they have done a study to prove what everyone (white) already knew.
There is good and bad in everything. People like you make the good ones look bad.
Do everyone a service and hush.
12:27 it is time to step out of your bubble.
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ReplyDeleteHave any of you dolts stopped to think, hey maybe its a culture issue and not a race issue?
No, that would require a thought process, something you people lack.
Its really not a hard concept to grasp.
Not everything boils down to a black and white issue, you ignorant bigots.
4:44 is absolutely correct. There are cultural issues which happen to be race specific! Don't be so quick to judge.
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