Top Obama Aid Trumpets Lighter Sentences For Crack Dealers: MSM Ignores The Comment

(WND.com) “To do this, Obama supporters need to unabashedly trumpet what the president has done for blacks – such as increased funding for education, universal health care and a sharp reduction in the sentencing disparity for possession of crack cocaine instead of powder, all things that Jarrett said have disproportionately benefited them.” -DeWayne Wickham, USAToday.

Jarrett’s cocaine remarks were not covered in the few mainstream media reports on the New Orleans event. Even though the Washington Post-owned Root website reposted Prince’s blog mentioning the comments, the Post’s own article on the event did not touch on the subject.

That article was titled “Obama has ‘genuine love for black community,’ senior adviser says.” Jarrett’s crack cocaine boast was a reference to the Fair Sentencing Act, signed into law by Obama in August 2010. The law eliminated the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine and reduced the disparity between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to trigger federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to 18:1. Read The Rest Of The Story