> do you think Obama was in on it?
i find it fascinating how to some folks, pointing at obama's ethnic background is apparently some kind of knockdown argument.
i find it fascinating how to some folks, pointing at obama's ethnic background is apparently some kind of knockdown argument.
It's pretty close to a knockdown argument against someone whose position is US government policy is to imprison black people on account of their ethnicity.
The great-grandparent comment may have been suggesting that. However, she was too vague to be sure.
That being said, it's just plain easy to find actual incidences where US policy was explicitly racist in it's intent and effect.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
> "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," Ehrlichman said. "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."
it's not, not even slightly, as far as i can tell. what makes you feel this is the case?
If there was a high level policy to explicitly imprison African Americans (rather than one that disproportionately imprisons blacks because of complicated circumstances), it's hard to believe a black president would support it or allow it to continue.
Can you provide a source for this wild claim?
The commenter I responded to was so vague, that they could have been making that claim. After all, they were likely drawing parallels between the situation in the OP and the US.
But who knows what they really thought; they never clarified. I called that out at the time and in every comment since.