C.D. - Mass Incarceration - In Defense of the Clintons?

ASA,

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard grumblings about the nefarious and conspiratorial issue of – mass incarceration.

By the name, we’re to believe that over the past decade or so, the government, via the Crime Bill of 1994, have effectively enslaved untold numbers of primarily, black men.

To that point, Barack Obama has made it a point, via executive orders and the DOJ, to allay this, by lowering the bar, if you will, on the classification of crimes, for which one can be sent to prison – his “black issue”.

So draconian are these laws, that black people were being sent to jail, for “just having a joint”.

I’ve tried my best to process all of this, but sorry, I DON’T BUY IT!

For one, “what do we mean by mass incarceration”?

A plan to send waves of black people to prison?

Maybe, black people, men in particular, are being sent on Trumped-up charges (oh-oh, I might have inadvertently provided political ammunition to Hillary!)

OR, is it possible, that those arrested and convicted, were actually guilty of the crimes they were charged with?

Why is Bill Clinton only recently, backtracking on a bill he signed into law, claiming that he made “mass incarceration worse”? Is he really that shameless and desperate, just to help his wife? (hint: YES!)

This Saturday, I want to understand this thing called “mass incarceration”.

What it is, what it isn’t, and I know that some of you will refer to The New Jim Crow, which I get the sense, is nothing more of a commentary, to support one, big “pity-party” for black people.

Then again, I thought the Crime Bill was predicated on the issue of rising violence, which definitely plagued the black community.

Then again, maybe I’ve got it ALL WRONG!