Luv-U-Long-Time
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Wow...how over simplistic does it get.Conspiracies fit when you need them to I suppose.Quick,somebody tell Lil' Wayne, the rapper, not the ICMAG poet...
I think a lot of blacks getting busted for drugs has to do with them dealing them on the street. Easy busts for the cops if they are out on the sidewalk selling to whoever. I see them doing busts on them all the time on the cop shows.
I seldom see whites doing this kind of dealing on tv but have no experience with street dealers in real life, even when I bought illegal. Friend of a friend of a dealer kind of thing.
Wow...how over simplistic does it get.Conspiracies fit when you need them to I suppose.Quick,somebody tell Lil' Wayne, the rapper, not the ICMAG poet...
laws are laws
if you break them, white black or brown, you have to face the consequences
I understand that sometimes white get off with a lighter sentence but... no one should be getting a harder sentence for the same crime... this is up to you to get a good lawyer...
if you don't like the laws, then work to change them
if you don't want to be arrested with drugs, then don't be around them or be careful and take precautions when you are around them... especially if you know that police are doing racial profiling..
all i'm hearing is whining and victimization
if you got a solution to the problem, then bring it to the table
laws are laws
if you break them, white black or brown, you have to face the consequences
I understand that sometimes white get off with a lighter sentence but... no one should be getting a harder sentence for the same crime... this is up to you to get a good lawyer...
Spoken from someone who has never had a DWB, WWB, RWB- Driving While Black, Walking While Black, or a Riding While Black all are serious offenses and can get you put in prison for a long time.
I don't understand how you can go to prison (for a long time too) for just being black.
OK. Let's examine it.
Here's an example:
Chad and Tyrone go to the same high school. They both happened to bring a little weed because they were going to meet up with some friends after school.
After school, Chad and Tyrone both decide to walk to the park to meet up with their friends.
They are not walking together. They just happen to be going to the same place with similar intent. (To smoke a jay at the park after school.)
A police officer sees Chad, but ignores him, since Chad looks like any other white kid. He's safe. He belongs. He passes by without incident.
The police officer then notices Tyrone. Tyrone looks any other black kid, which makes him suspicious. He's potentially dangerous. He might be up to something. Better check.
Tyrone gets stopped and frisked, even though he didn't do anything Chad didn't do. Tyrone gets a ticket (or worse) for possession and has to appear in court, maybe hire a lawyer, pay a fine, court costs, etc.
Plus, now Tyrone has a record. Which will make him even MORE of a target. Even more likely to be frisked in the future. To have his car torn apart, etc.
Chad did all the same things but wasn't caught because they weren't looking to fuck with people who look like Chad. They fucked with Tyrone (and found something) only because they were looking to fuck with people like Tyrone.
Even if Tyrone didn't have anything incriminating on him, he would still be subjected to this sort of treatment because it is not based on any evidence of a crime or of criminal intent, but solely based on racial profiling. So a search occurs without justification which encourages him to "know his place" or to find somewhere else to go.
And that's how people go to jail for being the wrong color.
I don't think any of this racial stuff is the point, or how police handled drug offenses in the 70's.
The point is, the statutory laws were on the books. Regardless of the probability, the possibility was there in regards to statatory law, and Obama could have been arrested had he been caught. Had Obama received a felony record he probably would not be where he is today. This very thing regularly happens to citizens today. Felony equals no financial aid for school and difficulty in finding a decent paying job. Obama oversees as this is happening to people for the very thing he has done, albeit unscathed. This = hypocrasy.
no that would have been cronyism.
one does not have to engage in cronyism to be a hypocrite.
Wow...how over simplistic does it get.Conspiracies fit when you need them to I suppose.Quick,somebody tell Lil' Wayne, the rapper, not the ICMAG poet...
Having other arrested and punished for the very same law you were willing to break makes you a hypocrite. Doesn't matter that he wasn't caught and it doesn't matter that he was taking the same chances as everyone else.
“I can’t nullify congressional law. I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, ‘Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books.’ What I can say is, ‘Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.
-B.O.