Quote by James Forman Jr Download Open image ““No: it was blacks who killed marijuana decriminalization in D.C.”” — James Forman Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
"One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“...People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“gun crime: it wasn’t equally distributed throughout black America. Rather, it was concentrated among the poorest blacks, who were forced into living conditions that… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“How am I a criminal for using marijuana. It is criminal I'm considered a criminal.” — Aaron J Copy Share Image
“This is not about you. Nobody gives a shit whether you like pot or hate it. This is a race issue. It's a civil… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
“But the effort sent a signal to federal, state, and local law enforcement, in Customs and elsewhere, that marijuana was as serious a threat… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without… — Philip Dray Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
“As the tough-on-crime movement gathered force, those who had been arrested or convicted rarely participated in debates over criminal justice policy, in D.C. or… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“But when they are carrying out investigatory or pretext stops, they are much more likely to stop black and other minority drivers: blacks are… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“Keeping blacks subjugated required that they be unarmed. Alabama’s law was typical: “Any freedman, mulatto, or free person of color in this state” was… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“During his first year in office, Congress did just that, passing legislation that changed the formulas governing eligibility and payouts for certain means-tested entitlements.7… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“Fowler, Hines, and the rest of the city’s black clergymen claimed that the majority of D.C.’s citizens shared their opposition to Clarke’s bill.” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for African Americans… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“Most of all, the fight against crack helped to enshrine the notion that police must be warriors, aggressive and armored, working ghetto corners as… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black elected officials… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“(At PDS, we often lamented that there were never waiting lists for prison—just for alternatives to prison.) But” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an American citizen,… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
