On 2020-10-22 11:41, John Newman wrote: >> The majority of blacks favor laws on crack cocaine that clearly have, >> and are clearly intended to have, disparate impact, and native Americans >> support laws on alcohol that are barely wearing a fig leaf to disguise >> their racial character.
> Do you have anything to back up either of those statements? The laws on crack cocaine were a reluctant response to black demand. Politicians would have preferred to avoid the embarrassment. The laws on alcohol for Indian communities were similarly a response to native American demand. Again, all the white folks would have preferred to be politically correct and pretend that there was no specifically Indian alcohol problem. These laws are a huge embarrassment, a reluctant accommodation to forceful community demand.
