Originally Posted By: cookcounty
@crash

Do u realize u admitted that crack sentences are more harsh than powder coke sentences. That kinda destroys your argument


Cook, that wasn't his argument. He was saying it evens out because white people get harsher sentences when they do crystal meth.

Anyway, just to throw something else into the mix, when these laws were first passed in the 1980s it was a combination of the mostly Democrat Black Congressional Caucus and Republicans who wanted these laws for the purpose of getting rid of those offenders who were causing the most damage to Black communities. So it wasn't racist, the purpose of the harsher sentences was to PROTECT Black communities.