the more things change

The game is still the game

We really shouldn't be still dealing with blacks as though they have some sort of fractional basis of humanity. I thought that was an acknowledged crime from 200 years ago that was fixed, in part, with blood. It's now being paid in more blood, with the same blood money as before (drugs instead of slaves). Fixing the sentencing issue to a 4/5th improvement is nice, I guess. But there's no good reason to treat crack as distinct from cocaine in the legal sense if we're going to treat them as legal problems in the first place (which I don't think we should be).