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(47,483 posts) Sun Jul 21, 2013, 09:06 PM Jul 2013

Crack cocaine vs. "regular" one

On Friday on PBS News Hour one of the guests, an African American professor from Vanderbilt - Carol Swain - said that it was the Congressional Black Caucus that pushed for heavier penalty on the use of crack cocaine.

I did not know that. I know that many often point to a disparity in penalty as one reason that so many African Americans are in jail.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec13/obama_07-19.html