Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M...
by camgunz on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:58AM
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I should start out by saying this is a delightfully well-written post despite the serious subject matter, nice ;)
I think you're giving mid-century Americans too much credit. I think they were widely ignorant of Black history and racial issues and really had no concept of institutional racism--of which the War on Drugs was certainly a scion. Crime--and let's consider all its racializations--was also pretty bad, and voters across races and political lines are generally in favor of full on human rights violations to get it under control [0].
I think you're giving mid-century Americans too much credit. I think they were widely ignorant of Black history and racial issues and really had no concept of institutional racism--of which the War on Drugs was certainly a scion. Crime--and let's consider all its racializations--was also pretty bad, and voters across races and political lines are generally in favor of full on human rights violations to get it under control [0].
[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/16/212620886...