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Advocates say Biden must repair harm caused by harsh anti-drug and crime laws he championed in the 1980s and ’90s.President Joe Biden walks out to deliver remarks from the Rose Garden at the White House on November 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C.President Joe Biden walks out to deliver remarks from the Rose Garden at the White House on November 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C.
Biden points to Hunter’s recovery from addiction to argue that his son deserves another chance. DaMareo said thousands of other families feel the same way about their loved ones serving long sentences in federal prison for drug-related crimes or marred by a criminal record. Many are Black and Latino families, DaMareo said, and when you add everyone together, the number of people Biden can help right now is many times higher than 10,000.
In the 1980s and 1990s, DaMareo said, police and policy makers saw Black and Latino people who used crack as “human trash” — both criminal and disposable. Today the most stigmatized drugs on the street are synthetics such as fentanyl that reach far beyond urban markets, and white users haveto the civil rights community for his tough-on-crime stances during the 1980s and 1990s.
The bill was passed by the state legislature and must be signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, by the end of the year to become law. We must give ourselves space to grieve and feel our fear, feel our rage, and keep in the forefront of our mind the stark truth that millions of real human lives are on the line. And simultaneously, we’ve got to get to work, take stock of our resources, and prepare to throw ourselves full force into the movement.Even as we are reeling, we’re summoning up all the energy we can to face down what’s coming, because we know that one of the sharpest weapons against fascism is publishing the truth.
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