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noharleyyet
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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace tweeted out a statement on Wednesday about the supposed noose found in his garage, saying that he's "relieved" to know it wasn't meant for him, but embarrassed by the mixup after the FBI ended its hate crime investigation.
"It's been an emotional few days. First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn't what we feared it was," he wrote. "I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a real threat.
"I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been," Wallace continued. "Make no mistake, though some will try, this should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday, and the progress we've made as a sport to be a more welcoming environment for all."
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"It's been an emotional few days. First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn't what we feared it was," he wrote. "I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a real threat.
"I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been," Wallace continued. "Make no mistake, though some will try, this should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday, and the progress we've made as a sport to be a more welcoming environment for all."
Bubba Wallace 'relieved' rope in garage wasn't noose targeted at him, acknowledges 'embarrassment'
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace tweeted out a statement on Wednesday about the supposed noose found in his garage, saying that he's "relieved" to know it wasn't meant for him, but embarrassed by the mixup after the FBI ended its hate crime investigation.
Doublecluck
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Not Dead, nor will it ever be, here or Anywhere else in the world that has a racially diverse population.
Significance in America today, debatable..
Relevant to the life outcome of a person from a given race based on which political candidate they vote for, highly suspect..
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Irrelevant
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Judicial. Crack vs Powder. Tell me why there's a sentencing difference?
Wildabeest
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Easy. Money, influence, stature, power. Same reasons why opioids are a public health crisis vs a drug crisis. Look who’s kids are most impacted. Sad but true.
Who knows. Lets change it. Would there really be a big push back to having equal cocaine sentencing?
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Sooooo… The name of the drug is applied differently between races? And sentencing is different? This is getting out of hand. mtmuley
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Actually yes, huge.
There has been a ton of push back against reducing drug sentencing and I doubt you are going to see hundreds of 19 year old rich white chicks charged with 10 years in federal pen.
Doublecluck
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sounds like the media and politicians were involved. I see how it impacts race differently, but I don’t see how it was founded on racism. At least I hope not because a lot of the same folks who enacted that legislation are the same ones saying they will fix the problem today.. with the help of the media of course..
More knee jerk legislation..
Sounds like it’s already been changed, but then again, you could just not smoke crack or snort cocaine and it wouldn’t matter..
Care to try again..
Crack vs. Powder Cocaine: One Drug, Two Penalties
Although both are variations of the same drug, the two have historically different consequences with the law. Learn more about the legal history of these drugs.
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There is different sentencing between crack and powdered cocaine.
“The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 increased penalties for crack cocaine possession and usage. It mandated a mandatory minimum sentence of five years without parole for possession of five grams of crack; to receive the same sentence with powder cocaine one had to have 500 grams”
Crack cocaine - Wikipedia
This is getting out of hand is exactly the point BLM is trying to make.
Police shootings reflect structural racism, study finds
The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players. But a new study finds states with a greater degree of structural racism, particularly residential segregation, have...
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Irrelevant
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If you're not up on your illicit drug out in MT. Powdered cocaine is about the whitest drug out there. Crack cocaine used to be #1 in many black communities, recently it has likely been eclipsed by weed.
Richard Nixon's adviser John Ehrlichman, was quoted as saying, "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," he said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies
Richard Nixon's adviser John Ehrlichman, was quoted as saying, "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," he said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies
noharleyyet
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As per quotes, Lyndon Baines says hold my beer.....
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Police shootings reflect structural racism, study finds
The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players. But a new study finds states with a greater degree of structural racism, particularly residential segregation, have...www.sciencedaily.com
Boston eeeeh... Not even worth citing a number of studies from better sources that tell there’s more to the story. Bottom line , residential segregation is illegal today. More boggeyman..
By the way DC has the highest rate of police shooting blacks and the police force is half black.
In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
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VikingsGuy
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It is broader than just the criminal arena. Do some reading on redlining, differential mortgage practices, real estate agents steering families to the “right neighborhood”. Some real estate agents even hired young black men to loiter in “edge” suburbs to cause panic sales by whites. Our housing system is plagued with systematic differentiation by race over the last 50 years. And since housing correlates directly with quality of public schooling and middle class wealth generation these practices have created decades of setbacks to equal opportunity.
Who hires the police chief and sets the policy in these large metropolitan cities where most of the police shootings occur?Police shootings reflect structural racism, study finds
The deaths of unarmed black victims at the hands of police sparked a national conversation about racism and policing, from the Black Lives Matter movement to kneeling NFL players. But a new study finds states with a greater degree of structural racism, particularly residential segregation, have...www.sciencedaily.com
Zach
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Two separate incidence, but linked by a common problem. Reacting before knowing all the facts. Both racist in nature.
I'd link Brandon Tatums response to Jr., but this crowd would blow him off.
Zach
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You never answered the question
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