First published at 11:50 UTC on September 11th, 2020.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has apologized for “tough-on-crime” past, trying to shape himself to be a strong candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Unfortunately for him, Biden has a long history of supporting the very crime …
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has apologized for “tough-on-crime” past, trying to shape himself to be a strong candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Unfortunately for him, Biden has a long history of supporting the very crime bills that criminal justice reformers target today.
Many argue those bills had a disproportionate impact on black Americans, and both Republicans and Democrats have voted for criminal justice reform.
In fact, in 1993, he bragged about sponsoring every single major crime bill since 1976.
Now in 2020
"We have to address the institutional racism, we've seen it more clearly now, in a black majority county during a pandemic they're six times more likely to die than in a white county, their disproportionately insured disproportionately make up the essential jobs that they cant do at home, their risking their lives everyday, enough is enough"
"The plan I have, the Manifesto for Black America, the portion of it that relates to how we're going to deal with the prison system, no one should be going to jail for drug crime period, particularly marijuana, which makes no sense for people to go to jail and the reason is if anything for those crimes that continue to be scheduled crimes which Marijuana shouldn't be anymore, you shouldn't go to prison, you should go to a mandatory rehabilitation, it costs lest to put people into a drug rehabilitation program, than it does in jail, and a chance, we gotta give people a chance"
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