I have a little nagging voice in my head saying something. And butterflies in my stomach. Anxiety about the election, maybe.
I haven’t written in a few days but I’m literally exhausted.
And I can’t get one thing out of my head. Comma La is a liability.
She did fine in the debate. Fine. But, while the critics are stuck talking about her smirking face and the fact that she is really just unlikeable… I remain thankful they aren’t looking or talking about things she said.
Not the inaccuracies. Not the lies. What concerns me is what she specifically said about being proud of her record for police and criminal justice reform in CA as a prosecutor and Attorney General and looking forward to spreading that around America.
Ok, so maybe there is something positive in her record. But…. really…. there are some pretty bad things. Glaring issues.
Kamala’s record on criminal justice reform is truly abysmal. She fought repeatedly to keep non-violent and even innocent prisoners in prison.
She laughed off the question when asked if she would support the legalization of marijuana, only reversing her stance very recently. After focus groups told her to. She never once tried to get people languishing in prison on non-violent drug offenses out of prison. Even marijuana. Even after it was legalized. Even though both houses of the California legislature have been controlled by the Democrats for about 50 years. Should have been easy to make some positive reforms…
At many points she and her office actually fought against releasing prisoners — even after the US Supreme Court found that overcrowding in California prisons was so bad that it amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. Her office even argued that the state couldn’t release some prisoners because it would deplete its pool for prison labor.
The truth is she was part of the problem and did little, if anything, at all. Prisons in CA remain emblematic of chronic racial inequities in the justice system. African Americans make up less than 6% of California’s population but 29% of its inmates, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Yet, Kamala is the VP. Or will be. Or will be President. After I am President for a few days at least. If I’m President. At least very few people are paying attention at this point to the important issues. Trump is bad!
Come on, man.
“African Americans make up less than 6% of California’s population but 29% of its inmates, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”
So you admit systemic racism exists then? Then why are you still such a big fan of Larry Elder, who denies its existence? Elder said black people had it better when they were slaves. He is literally the definition of an Uncle Tom.
Funnily enough, Vice President Pence also denied that the United States was systemically racist. So is it, or is it not? You can’t have it both ways.