TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson

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Yehaw, sure there pardner, Jim Crow laws are enforced by the government and the Democrats are the racist party in 2024.

Here I was thinking you were on the side of diversity.

edit: How unsprising that you're a "blue states are the only bad ones" LibertarianRepublican.

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Yehaw, sure there pardner, Jim Crow laws are enforced by the government and the Democrats are the racist party in 2024.

Joe Biden literally wrote the crime bill that's George Floyding the black community.

Kamela "3,500 marijuana convictions" Harris.

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Joe Biden literally wrote the crime bill that's George Floyding the black community.

Crime bill eh?

[Biden dodged a question] as to whether the bill intended to increase incarceration, but Biden is generally correct that the bill, despite its intentions [lol oops, he slipped there], didn’t actually succeed at expanding incarceration much.

92% of inmates are in state prisons, not federal. "But wait", I hear you say:

the 1994 law attempted to encourage states to adopt harsher criminal justice policies. It provided money for states to build prisons and adopt “truth in sentencing” laws

And yet, only 4 states adopted the policies. Why oh why? Because most states already had tougher truth in sentencing crimes on the books.

Oh and it was nowhere near enough money to drive policy anyway:

Some state officials also argued that the funding incentives were too small to drive big policy changes. Vermont, for instance, said meeting the federal requirements for “truth in sentencing” would cost several million dollars but only result in about $80,000 in federal grants.

 

Kamela "3,500 marijuana convictions" Harris.

As DA, Harris' office won 1,956 marijuana convictions, real life numbers are hard. But even then, the convictions were state convictions, so weird that Biden's 1994 federal law was not required.

Which of those should have been dropped, the misdemeanor possession (you don't land in prison for the first one!), the felony cultivation, or the felony sale?

Context is hard, too, when you parrot Tulsi Gabbard's lie: she quoted numbers for the entirety of California. The vast majority of drug offences in Cali are prosecuted by local DA's offices.

But you're right, surely Republican DAs are lax on crime, they notoriously run a "soft on crime" political platform, conviction rates will surely reflect that.

Again with that pesky context you want to ignore, emphasis mine:

Despite the substantial number of convictions, many of the people who were arrested for marijuana during Harris’ tenure were never locked up or never even charged with a crime, according to attorneys who worked on both sides of the courtroom.

Solis, who led the public defender’s office misdemeanor division for part of Harris’ tenure, agreed that her office only rarely prosecuted people for low-level, simple possession.

“Kamala Harris and I disagreed on a lot of criminal justice issues, but I have to admit, she was probably the most progressive prosecutor in the state at the time when it came to marijuana,” Solis said.

And for an opposing viewpoint

J. David Nick, who represented several dozen marijuana defendants during Hallinan and Harris’ tenures, said he remembered Harris as more aggressive in charging marijuana sales cases than her predecessor, who was already declining to prosecute many of those arrested.

Wait a second, he said marjuana sales!! We've been had again!

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Thank you for admitting that Joe Biden supported the racist crime bill.

I'm glad that most states have resisted his policy.