Why is crack cocaine treated differently than cocaine in the criminal justice system?

It's as if you have no idea what the tea party stands for or something, or there's a good reason you didn't post for five months. Too bad you got left off a leash today.

So why did I get attacked for citing facts here if you're all so truthful? Why did Goofyballer's illogical "racists" post gets condoned by my common sense post attacked? You guys are more interested in teams it seems. This is what I call the Tea Party of the left. But the name is not important to me. I can change it to anything you like if it hurts your feelings.

You got attacked because you were angrily and pedantically spouting the obvious like it would blow our minds. Goofy's point is important because many black people who are killed by police are killed when only accused of crimes, like drug crimes, that they commit at rates similar to white people.

Oh really? And it wasn't because I refuted his illogical point and pointed him out as the real racist, was it? Relatively speaking, black people commit more crimes and murders. It's kind of obvious that this is why they also get killed by police more often.

You know as well as I do that I was attacked for challenging his world view with real life facts. Which is exactly my point. You don't want to talk about facts. You want to talk about racism first and facts later.

His point wasn't illogical, you didn't refute it, and he's not a racist.

Is that a truthbomb in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Explain how my point about black people being involved in crime more and committing 50% of the murders is not valid than.

Murders, which you cited, are only a very small part of the violent altercations between citizens and police. Citing murder rates doesn't tell the whole story by any means. And in fact, some crimes, like drug crimes, are committed by blacks and whites at the same rates. Why should black people end up dead so much more often when these incredibly common crimes are roughly uniform across races?

What he means is, if you're a cop and you're going to shoot someone, you're more likely to hit a murderer if you shoot a black person. That's just statistics.

Oh really haha, that's what you choose to go with to prove me wrong? The huge difference in amount of murder perpetrators don't paint a picture?

Oh and going by your "logic", this also means that you disagree with Goofyballer's point. The police murders do "not tell the whole story" in your opinion right? So why didn't you refute his post with this opinion of yours but only mine? Hmmmm, I wonder why? You're on Goofyballer's racist team, are you?

I actually think that police murders tell the whole story about police murders. I also think that Goofy is willing to grant that some of the disparity in police killings is due to higher crime rates and that reducing police killings of blacks by reducing black poverty is a worthy goal.

lol from what, ~0 to ~0?

Oh so the police murders just blatantly tell the whole story but you (or the person you are supposedly speaking for) are "willing to grant that SOME of the disparity in police killings is due to higher crime rates". Even though the police killings of blacks are 32% and the black murder perpetrator percentage is 50%.

Hilarious. You have some racist point of views without realizing it. It's very old-fashioned thinking. It's also not liberal at all. You are being racist. Stop treating black people like children. If you want to help them, treat them like you would treat white people. Which is, in some weird way, what you are aiming for I think.

Murder isn't the only crime committed in America. It's a ****ty stat to base your whole argument on.

How many people killed by police this year were murder suspects?

I am going to need a citation of this.

Haha unbelievable. Who said I only focused on murder? Relatively speaking, black people are also involved in crime more. As I said, this is why they have more altercations with the police.

You guys have an obvious agenda. Stop ignoring truth. Stop treating black people with kid gloves. It's old-fashioned. Treat them like you would treat white people. It's very condescending and you will be hated for this in the future, believe me. Young people are looking right through this.

I think I've said enough. Just listen to my advice. Make the world a better place for all of us so we can progress. Stop being racists.

How do you want us to treat black people? What do you propose we do?

You seem to be deliberately ignoring all the ways in which black people don't commit more crimes than whites.

Were Tamir Rice or Freddie Gray committing violent crime?

Stop treating Tamir Rice with kid gloves

Hell, not even Michael Brown or Eric Garner were stopped by police for violent crimes. The guy gunned down while running away was not ever accused of any violent crime.

Why are you feeding the trolls with words and not bans?

Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray are two very different cases.

Yeah, he's obviously been banned before, but I can't check on my phone