My Latest. Being Black in Trump in Country: At a birthday party, nearly 100 young people were arrested, almost all Black, when police claimed they found less than 1 ounce of weed...total. This is an exclusively Black experience. A crazy story....https://theintercept.com/2018/01/04/cartersville-georgia-ounce-marijuana-arrests-weed/ …
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Shaun, how much of this is related to trying to take away black people's voting rights by giving them felony convictions?
It's very much related man. It's all a part of the same system.
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I read there's about 3million ex fellons in the USA- are non of them allowed to vote? Over here (UK) its only whilst in jail that you're denied the vote (even that is contentious- human rights wise) 3m is big denial of "democracy"
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here, it's state by state. in California, restoration of rights is automatic once no longer in prison or on parole. other states ban you for life. it's becoming a bigger issue here too.
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Often drug conviction of young Black people serves 2 functions fills up for profit prison added bonus is that they often take away voting rights for felony convictions
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I've never even heard a rational argument for why felons should be disenfranchised in the first place. Do supporters of this barbaric practice really pretend to believe that felons will band together and vote to legalize murder, or something?
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