Really irks me that presidents do this at the end of their terms and not the beginning. That’s 4 extra years these people had to spend in prison while he was hemming and hawing.
Sadly, it’s to avoid the political fallout.
“President [Name] under fire after pardoning felons convicted of drug crimes connected to criminal gangs. [Opposition] Party members accuse the White House of making Americans less safe by releasing them onto the streets instead of working harder to lower crime rates.”
I wish more people understood this.
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2,500 people is still not enough to undo to the damage done by a lifetime of being a pro police corporate puppet like the rest of the politicians
Justice delayed is justice denied fuck you Biden
“Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’”[18]
Nothing like perfection being the enemy of good, is that right?
It always amuses me how people will criticize someone for doing a good thing despite the fact that the alternative choice… Did nothing. Especially when the likes of you would never come to Biden’s defense when the right wing propaganda machine drones on endlessly about, “Biden releasing convicted felons back into put crime ridden streets!!”
Friendly reminder regarding that Birmingham Letter:
It was later that those same liberals passed Civil Rights legislation in Congress. Sure wasn’t the southern Conservatives now, was it? lol.
Nay. Much easier to throw peanuts from the peanut gallery. To blame the good guy for not being better; not the villain who made action necessary in the first place.
Never mind Joe Biden was a chief architect of the War on Drugs. That’s totally irrelevant, I’m sure.
Chief architect? After the damage conservative reefer madness and Reagan’s campaign had…? I don’t know about that.
To Biden’s credit he repaired his relationship with the black community in the years since.
As if conservative Republicans weren’t controlling the national narrative on this in the first place, akin to Bush going, “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists”
Not to mention that Nixon was the one who started the whole thing so he would have a tool to use to harass and arrest blacks and hippies.
In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman [Nixon’s domestic policy chief] said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
