Now Craig, you take this cancer, and you burn it. When you done, you should be butt ass naked. But you take this fucking cancer, go home, and you burn it.

Thank you. Liberals love a good right-wing boogeyman. Like, you really think only right-wingers kept Jim Crow alive for 50 years? Did myths of black inferiority only come from the mouths of conservatives??

“... it is irreversible.”

I suppose I wasn’t clear. I’m not saying the Tea Party has had any effect on criminal justice. I haven’t studied that at all and it wasn’t my point.

Not conflating the two parties in general. I’m referring to overlaps on the specific issue of criminalizing blackness and the criminal justice system.

Progressive black people don’t care whose calling card it is if Democrats are still along for the ride and the end result is that we’re still getting shitted on.

Also, using a privileged white woman in a conversation on white supremacy...on jezebel. The jokes just write themselves!

Hmmmmmm, can I imagine it worse...you’re asking a black person if she can imagine an existence for black people worse than multiple Scalias on the Supreme Court....

...and? Nixon was preceded by both conservative and liberal politicians decades before that who engendered fear of black Americans. He didn’t invent the myth of black criminality, but he is one example of it being put into policy.

I was thinking the same thing. For years black people talking about these situations were put off as paranoid and conspiracy minded. Too angry to be rational, too upset to think clearly, because this could NEVER happen. The government would NEVER do such a thing. It’s too far fetched. Too manical. But here you have…

The sad thing is that some (white) people can only hear this type of thing from another white person’s mouth. That is the only way it has validity.

Well, wasn’t the quote said back in 1994? Not disagreeing with how you feel. Just trying to guess why it might not be “news”. Though I do think it bears repeating. Like a million times!

The funny thing is with legalization there’s still rampant racism when it comes to starting a “green” business. In CO, for example, you cannot have a charge for drugs on your record (this includes people who were caught with joints) and since drug arrests target largely black and brown people, many (black)…

I have two major takeaways from this:

Are we shocked? Are we supposed to be shocked by this? Disgusting.

“Yeah tell us something we don’t know.”

The only thing shocking about it is that Ehrlichman actually admitted it. I’m so used to this shit at dog whistle frequency that it’s shocking to hear it at an audible level.

Almost like the drug war was invented to replace Jim Crow.