All I know is he Black incarceration rates tripled during the Clinton Presidency. That is a fact. That is real. That was 1992, not 1973.

Your attempt to try to scare people here that Trump is somehow going to be worse than the status quo treatment of the black community for the last 25 years is a false narrative.

You like the Atlantic:

"When Bill Clinton and the “New Democrats” emerged victorious in the 1990s, thanks in large part to 83 percent support from black voters in 1992 and 84 percent in 1996, they adopted policies, such as welfare reform (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) and a crime bill (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) that proved ruinous for many black Americans. “It is difficult to overstate the damage that’s been done,” the legal scholar Michelle Alexander noted recently of Clinton’s presidency. “Generations have been lost to the prison system; countless families have been torn apart or rendered homeless; and a school-to-prison pipeline has been born that shuttles young people from their decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.” Clinton acknowledged last year that the crime bill “cast too wide a net” and made the problem of mass incarceration worse."



[Post edited by SamSpade at 09/19/2016 12:04PM]