President Obama recently made these stunning comments to the New Yorker magazine recently. .. Words that could potentially signal the inevitable end of Cannabis Prohibition

 

"Middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do," he said. "And African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties." 

But, he said, "we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing." Accordingly, he said of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington that "it's important for it to go forward because it's important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished."

D.E.A. Fuels violence in Chicago with Agreement with Drug Cartels

One more glaring reason to end the so called " War on Drugs"

Now when 70% or more of these drugs are going into Chicago........For 10 YRS!!
You do the math..

Just Ice- American Justice For Black Americans

Marissa Alexander

was sentenced by a Florida judge to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a "warning shot" into the wall after a physical altercation with her husband, Rico Gray.




Today George Zimmerman walks away a Free man using only a "Self  Defense" argument .



How, could a 31-year-old woman in a relationship with a man who had a history of domestic violence, and whose actions did not result in any physical injury, be sentenced to two decades in prison while George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Martin, is out on bail  Found "Not Guilty" ? 

"The Florida criminal justice system has sent two clear messages today," One is that if women who are victims of domestic violence try to protect themselves, the "Stand Your Ground Law" will not apply to them...The second message is that if you are black, the system will treat you differently."

Kreepy Ass Cracker?

George Zimmerman

Pittsburgh rapper Jasiri X 

        just dropped a few verses on the George Zimmerman Trial..here’s what he had to say:

I decided to put my thoughts about the Zimmerman trial, the ruling on the Voting Rights Act, and Race in America into a 16 bar verse:
Oh you was born black welcome to the curse race
Oh you was born brown you sure this is your birthplace
This is America the home of the white man
Where every other American gets a hyphen
People of color police shoot us on site man
And then be like damn I was just frightened
See just the color of my skin is intimidating
Here I’m a criminal just based on my pigmentation
We need God our only mass is incarceration
We need Jesus cause these preachers got the heart of Satan
They toast to our death celebrating with ice cream
Vanilla with the cake cone must be a white thing
They wanna stop us from voting well what do rights mean?
If the end result of our struggle can just be wiped clean
And Zimmerman is a creepy ass cracka
A racist child murdering liar and bad actor

Now even though he really is bi-racial... He sure fit right into the mold as a "Kreeepy Ass Kracker" when he began stalking Trayvon 

School in Ohio Bans Afro Puffs and Braids

Just when you thought the Natural look was safe ....... The Horizon Science Academy in Ohio has decided otherwise


 From strawberri Curls...
http://strawberricurls.com/2013/06/21/ohio-school-bans-afro-puffs-and-braids/

 I look at our natural hair styles as a statement of who were are. We finally look at our hair and find it beautiful and then somebody has the nerve to turn around and classify it as “fadish”. How can we teach our girls to love their hair when you have things like this happening?






Thoughts??

Mass Incarceration Normalized

This is actually disturbing to me as a Black Man..... 

Here we see P.B.S. attempt to "Normalize" Mass Incarceration...

The project is Bankrolled by  a foreign contractor who builds Hi Tech Weapons for Americas National Defense System. 


The main sponsor, BAE Systems. The British contractor, whose U.S. subsidiary is one of the largest suppliers to the Department of Defense, depends — like many other defense contractors — on the low-overhead labor of prisoners incarcerated at for-profit facilities. 


Right now, federal prison inmates in correctional institutions across America are making parts for Patriot missiles.

They are paid $0.23 an hour to start, and can work their way up to a maximum of $1.15 to manufacture electronics that go into the propulsion, guidance, and targeting systems of Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) PAC-3 guided missile, originally made famous in the first Persian Gulf conflict.

Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/defense-industrial-base-defense-budget-defense/3/7/2011/id/33198?page=full#ixzz2W8tHuK6w


That said, BAE has a large philanthropic arm, and perhaps "Little Children, Big Challenges" was one of the more obvious projects to support.

 To get a feel for the project, check out the first video, titled "What is Incarceration?", on Sesame Street's website.

Heres an excerpt from their website....

Little Children,
Big Challenges: Incarceration

The incarceration of a loved one can be very overwhelming for both children and caregivers. It can bring about big changes and transitions. In simple everyday ways, you can comfort your child and guide her through these tough moments. With your love and support she can get through anything that comes her way. Here are some tools to help you with the changes your child is going through.



 This is a prime example of how profits determine policy.... 

This kind of stuff must be opposed ... 

Mass Incarceration is not NORMAL, and using our tax dollars to subsidize these greedy companies profit schemes is not the way to go...

Your thoughts....

DWB...Driving While Black??? A Taste of Reality

Screenshot via ABC 15

Jessie Thornton.

A 64-year-old  Ariz., man was arrested and charged with drunk driving even though tests showed that he had a blood alcohol level of 0.00 and a drug recognition officer said the man was completely sober.
Jessie Thornton, a retired firefighter who says he often sleeps during the day and is up at night because of his wife’s schedule as an ER nurse, was pulled over late one night after his car crossed the white line in his lane.
“He (the officer) walked up and he said ‘I can tell you’re driving DUI by looking in your eyes,’ ” Thornton told local news station ABC 15. Thornton had just come from a late night workout at an LA Fitness gym, and says his eyes could have been red because he been swimming. He says the officer told him he had “bloodshot eyes” and said “I think you’re DUI.”
“He (the officer) goes, ‘Well we’re going to do a sobriety test.’ I said, ‘OK, but I got bad knees and a bad hip with surgery in two days.’ ”
According to ABC 15, medical documents did indeed show that Thornton was scheduled to undergo a hip replacement two days after he was pulled over, and that the police report even noted that he had hip and knee problems.
Officers went on with the sobriety test, but as Thornton said, “At one point, one of the officers shined the light in my eye and said, ‘Oh, sorry,’ and asked the other officer if he was doing it right.”
Still, he was later handcuffed and taken down to the police station, where he made to take a Breathalyzer test. The results?
“It comes back zero, zero, zero,” Thornton told ABC 15.
A drug recognition officer then looked over Thornton, determining that he was completely sober. After he did all the tests, Thornton said the expert told him, ‘I would never have arrested you, you show no signs of impairment.’ ”
In fact, documents show that the drug recognition officer wrote in his statement that “in my opinion Jessie was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
By that time, however, Thornton’s car was impounded and the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division had been notified that he had been arrested for a DUI. He says he was later alerted that his license had been suspended. And because this happened on a Friday night, he didn’t get his car back until Monday.
Eventually, Thornton was released from police custody and the DUI charge was later dropped.
This isn’t the first Thornton was pulled over by police, however. The retired firefighter says he’s been stopped 10 times since he moved to the retirement community of Surprise from Ohio, and has been ticketed on four occasions. The latest stop and wrongful arrest have prompted Thornton to hire an attorney and sue the Surprise police department.
ABC 15:
“This is a case of D-W-B, driving while black,” said Thornton’s attorney Marc Victor.
Victor’s office has filed a notice of claim against the City of Surprise seeking $500,000.
“It’s not totally about the money, although I’m already out more than $5,000, that’s $5,000 that I don’t have,” said Thornton.
“This is not the way American citizens ought to be treated by officers or treated by anybody for that matter,” said Victor.
...“Here he (Jessie) is being harassed for no other reason than the color of his skin,” said Attorney Charity Clark. “It’s frustrating that somebody had to go through this type of experience, they poke and prod him and arrest him for nothing.”
Thornton said his daughter, who is in law enforcement, has filed an official complaint with the City of Surprise.