According to the New York Post, Green Party presidential candidate Cornell West called President Biden’s contribution to the mass incarceration of black Americans a “crime against humanity,” denouncing the president’s track record on race.
West has denounced the Biden-sponsored Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which some believe led to a dramatic increase in incarceration. “Well, when Joe Biden became the architect of the mass incarceration regime in the 1990s, you would think he contributed to crimes against humanity,” says the 70-year-old former Harvard philosophy professor. Said New York Post.
1994 crime Specification It hired over 100,000 police officers and funded prisons with $9.7 billion. The bill would strengthen existing legislation, the Substance Abuse Act of 1986, which created a wide disparity in sentencing for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. according to to the Brookings Institution. Brookings said crack was so common in low-income black neighborhoods that blacks were much more likely to get a more aggravated sentence. (Related: ‘Your question was answered’: Mr. Psaki silences reporters as they close in on Biden’s role in 1994 crime bill)
“I’ve taught in prisons for 41 years, and the level of barbarism in our prisons has something to do with the crime bill he proposed,” West said. West, who has written several best-selling books on racial issues, says Biden is good at “putting black faces on high ground” and that he uses black people as “window dressing”. condemned. He gave Biden a “C-” rating on race relations, adding that “black people are a low priority.”
West initially said he would run for the newly formed People’s Party in 2024, but on June 13 he formally declared that he would seek the Green Party’s nomination. Best-selling author and former Green Party candidate Chris Hedges explained that his own conversion would make it much easier to get him. on the ballot paper. “The Greens have won about 20 states…I don’t think it’s unrealistic to think they could win another 20 states,” he said. Said Left-wing podcaster Briana Joy Gray. Citing the Democrats’ staunch opposition to third-party access to the ballot, he said West would have millions of dollars to fight legal challenges filed by the DNC to put his name on the ballot. said it would be necessary.
