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jtuck004

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5. Obama's legacy - his appointment to the DEA keeps racism alive.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 03:52 AM
Aug 2016

Wasserman Schultz is probably tossing dollars in her piggy bank to celebrate - this will be great for the people who own and profit from people's misery in private private prisons, the bosses she worked so hard for, probably tens of thousands of newly incarcerated black folk to jail.

And since WA state has made it legal for moneyed white folks to grow and sell, the cops can continue arresting the black guys on the corner.

Black. Still, not quite equal, even in a state that is as blue as they get.


"Black people are arrested at four times the rate of whites for dealing pot, even though whites are up to 32 percent more likely to sell the drug."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/legal-pot-and-the-black-market/481506/


Thanks Obama.



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