Re: this is good...

I got drunk with a Maryland State Trooper when I was moving up to New Hampshire.. Seperate story that he did not reveal this to me until we were both weaving our way to our cars.

Anyway, he mentioned that cops go after poor blacks because they know it is an easy conviction that will never see a courtroom. Cops hate it when pesky defendants hire attorneys and fight the charges, they much rather you be poor and plead the charge down through the public defender.

For them it is an easy conviction with the least amount of work involved. They see blacks as a low hanging fruit to advance their careers.

And when you have a town like Kenosha, or Ferguson, where the cops hit certain communities so hard that half the community is in jail because they can not afford bond, or people have racked up so many petty charges they could never afford to pay them all off, it becomes a powder keg.

And that is just 1 tiny piece of the puzzle, there are all kinds of institutional failures involved.

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Re: You seem to dismiss law and order and the rule of law...

Sep 3, 2020, 9:46 AM

Where does it say blacks get 10 years for small quantities of pot?

I want pot legalized and I believe cities target poor neighborhoods, including black neighborhoods to generate money for bribes and other important things politicians need to hold office.

I also know that no prosecutor was more effective at putting black pot smokers in jail than Kamala Harris. Tell me about the 10 years for minor possession of pot and why you support Harris with such a chip on your shoulder about racism and minor pot possession.

"As someone from the Bay Area and living in Oakland, I am constantly reminded of her history of locking up Black people in the Bay Area. Her track record consists of terrorizing Black communities through the prison industrial complex and she has consistently shown herself to be an enemy to the masses of Black people.

While I admit the symbol of having a Black woman as president sounds nice, it doesn’t exclude Kamala from being critiqued. I operate under the political belief that there are no good presidents. Presidents are just figureheads for the white supremacist settler colonial state. I aim to have a principled critique of her record that advances Black political thought, yet Twitter has been full of misogynist critiques of Kamala. It is important we critique her while avoiding misogynoir, as there is no place for misogynoir in the Black liberation movement.

Whether it was declining to advocate for legalization of marijuana in California, in which Black people are arrested at the highest rate. Or her failure to support body cameras for the police while simultaneously opposing legislation that would require her office to independently investigate police shootings. Kamala is not for the people. She even defended the 3 strikes law, in which Black people are incarcerated at a rate 12 times higher than whites. Kamala Harris has demonstrated through her actions that she does not value Black lives, but rather supports our death via the carceral state..."

https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/