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In reply to the discussion: Obama shouldn't 'evolve' on anything. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I know perfectly well that blacks get pulled over, arrested, and convicted at a higher rate, with harsher sentences. That's totally separate from marijuana, obviously. As you say, it will continue, even if the president lights one up at a state of the Union address or something.
And nope, it's not something people are marching about. Nor is it a hot button issue - those tend to be issues that are obvious and indisputable discrepencies inmeaningful rights. Marijuana is a recreation thing. As for the prisoner issue... well... An upsetting feature of American culture is a violent hatred of anyone who's ever been convicted of anything. The phrase "prisoner's rights" makes most americans want to spit on you, i've noticed.. .even here on Du, where prison rape "jokes" are still a kind of regular problem