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But let's talk about an example and see what your response is to that. If I remember correctly, the penalties for crack cocaine and powdered cocaine are very disproportionate. Drugs are often absorbed and incorporated into a "scene" or social group and associated with them thereafter. For crack cocaine, it's the lower ends of the socioeconomic ladder, while powdered cocaine is what the rich bankers and wall street types are doing off their escorts for the night. It's the same drug, cocaine, just in different forms, different methods of absorption into your body. Why is it that the one which affects the disproportionately poor black is punished way, way harsher? You can talk all you want about black behavior, but why is it that the laws are different to begin with, and is this a problem from your perspective?
Mind you, I am not trying to take a side here. I just want your side fleshed out a bit more.
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