{"id":12119,"date":"2020-02-23T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2020-02-23T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T22:01:14","slug":"joe-bidens-sorry-history-of-legislating-to-lock-up-blacks-and-latinos-to-please-white-people-and-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/joe-bidens-sorry-history-of-legislating-to-lock-up-blacks-and-latinos-to-please-white-people-and-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden’s sorry history of legislating to lock up blacks and Latinos to please white people and cops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this article, the New York Times provides all of the sordid the details required to make your heart ache by providing a time line chronicling how Joe Biden used his power as a young legislator to systematically pass laws which built more prisons and locked hundreds of thousands of black and brown people up in them … while he lied to black leaders, convincing them to support the draconian laws that hugely increased the number of inmates incarcerated in the 1980s and 90s \u2013\u00a0some, for life\u00a0\u2013 and incinerated the stability of family life in these communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1989, with the violent crime rate continuing to rise as it had since the 1970s, Mr. Biden lamented that the Republican president, George H. W. Bush, was not doing enough to put \u201cviolent thugs\u201d in prison. In 1993, he warned of \u201cpredators on our streets.\u201d And in a 1994 Senate floor speech, he likened himself to another Republican president: \u201cEvery time Richard Nixon, when he was running in 1972, would say, \u2018Law and order,\u2019 the Democratic match or response was, \u2018Law and order with justice\u2019 \u2014 whatever that meant. And I would say, \u2018Lock the S.O.B.s up.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden is not at all the personable defender of black people’s rights that he purports to be. Read, learn and weep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, the New York Times provides all of the sordid the details required to make your heart ache by providing a time line chronicling how Joe Biden used his power as a young legislator to systematically pass laws which built more prisons and locked hundreds of thousands of black and brown people up … <\/p>\n

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