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Finally, someone who says something that makes sense on the topic.
You certainly don't! LOL.
Uncle Tom: Uncle Tom n. Offensive A Black person who is regarded as being humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people.
Maybe you can think about it beyond a 3rd grade level and consider what sentencing disparities (crack v. powder) and mandatory minimums actually do.
Yes, those were created by two acts of Congress in 1986 and 1988. Both were co-sponsored by Democrats, passed by a Democrat controlled House, and in the case of the latter, passed by a Democrat controlled Senate.
Just FYI.
By the way I fully support eliminating that sentencing disparity. A very obvious blight in our justice system.
I know one thing, if you are better off today than you were 30 years ago you were rich before Reagan took office. If you aren't better off today, then you are just another Fox News Sheep walking with Walker to the slaughter.
You might as well be saying some other nonsense like, "If I fart, you want to be upwind"
Fox, CNN, MS NBC has nothing to do with anything regarding the reality of your life, you are featuring your excuses when in fact YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR OWN DESTINY.
Not
Obama
Bush
Reagan
Clinton
Oprah
DRUGS
BOOZE
WELFARE
or anything else.
OMG he is certain it isn't and it seems he knows everything about the black race!
This is getting better by the minute. I don't know which thread is funnier and more entertaining; this one or the other thread about transgender people and a poster said it will be a great thing when "we all become one sex!"
I mean this is a hoot! I have to scroll back and forth between these two threads for fear I will miss something.
You certainly don't! LOL.
Uncle Tom: Uncle Tom n. Offensive A Black person who is regarded as being humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people.
That term is also used by some against those who do well in the mainstream economy and move from a poorer to better off area.
Those calling the names are jealous IMO.
What's racist about it? Hell, when someone is Tomming, it's simply the truth! Why would i care if a white person notices it? Hell, i HOPE he notices it!
That term is also used by some against those who do well in the mainstream economy and move from a poorer to better off area.
Those calling the names are jealous IMO.
Nonsense. Again, you aren't in the community, so you don't know. It's NEVER used in that context. The whole damn idea is to move to a better off area. If that was the case, then all black folks in the Great American Diaspora from the South to the North were Uncle Toms. Black folks by the thousands move to better neighborhoods all the time. Stick to the things you know.
You don't know what you're talking about. You're repeating some tripe you heard on Laura Ingraham or Rush Limbaugh's show.
Yes, those were created by two acts of Congress in 1986 and 1988. Both were co-sponsored by Democrats, passed by a Democrat controlled House, and in the case of the latter, passed by a Democrat controlled Senate.
Just FYI.
Please don't delude yourself re: Reaganite policy, and don't think that the complicity of Democrats makes this an issue primarily of Houses and Senates. It's a boring tactic and in this instance it is extremely dishonest. Reagan pushed the War on Drugs aggressively, and his economic policy quite openly terrible for the poor.
This doesn't absolve Democrats who did similar things, as Clinton did during his run, it's simply to point out that during Reagan's presidency, he pushed for many things that I would consider destructive for the black population. Not to mention his tendency to oppose civil rights legislation.
Um....the people who are involved with illegal drugs?
And why do people get involved in drugs? Lack of alternative economic opportunities.
Again lets look at what was going on in the 1980's from an economic context. A major de-industrialization of cities in the Northeast and Midwestern United States many of which had large populations of working class Black Americans. No effort by the government to address the de-industrialization with job training or educational funding. A continued trend of "Suburban Flight" that saw many middle class people leave cities altogether. The combination of factories closing and the middle class leaving severely eroded the tax bases of these cities which resulted in cuts in education and therefore a reduction on the quality of education a child in these cities received. At the same time these children were receiving a poorer quality education the economy was moving toward needing more educated workers.
Finally during the 1980's there was a massive crack cocaine epidemic that disproportionally affected inner city America. There is some evidence that in some cases government agencies where aware of large scale cocaine distribution but allowed it to occur because at the time drug money was being used to fund the fight in Nicaragua between the Contras and Sandinistas. The San Jose Mercury-News "Dark Alliance" news stories features damning evidence that the U.S Customs Bureau and the Central Intelligence Agency was aware and permitted drug distributors to import cocaine into the United States because the money was funding the Contras.
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