https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks Made with a dash of wit en-us 2021-02-09 21:16:28 UTC 2025-12-06 14:09:57 UTC hello@padlet.com amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1184749241 its crazy that they put racist words straight on the title of the article]]> 2021-02-09 21:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1184749241 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188359472 I would have to disagree about the statement "cocaine, in other words, made black men uniquely murderous..." ]]> 2021-02-10 16:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188359472 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188377587 they spoke about multiple articles that were being wrote between 1898 and 1914 that exaggerated the association of heinous crimes and cocaine use by blacks, but why exaggerate the story? ]]> 2021-02-10 16:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188377587 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188396847 with the use of the harrison act, and the fact that it did not explicitly prohibit the use of opiates and cocaine, how often were drugs being used back then? ]]> 2021-02-10 16:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188396847 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188404741 what was the purpose throughout all of these years to make the drugs stronger? ]]> 2021-02-10 16:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188404741 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188410528 "by this time, of course, reference to race in such a context were no longer acceptable" - but that didnt stop them from beating around the bush to still single out people of color]]> 2021-02-10 16:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188410528 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188431141 "we now know that an astonishing 85 percent of those sentence for crack cocaine offenses were black, even though the majority of users of the drug were, and are, white" - so does this just mean that they are only punishing people of color because clearly everyone is in the wrong]]> 2021-02-10 16:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188431141 amandavaughan1 https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188452139 1000% agree on, "yet we no longer have the excuse of ignorance for indulging these kinds of wild fictions. it is long past time to ensure that our drug policies reflect reality and morality, not racism" ]]> 2021-02-10 16:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/amandavaughan1/Bookmarks/wish/1188452139