Derrick Kimbrough, a black veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, received a 15-year-prison term for selling both crack and powder cocaine, as well as possessing a firearm in Norfolk, Va. Most crack defendants in federal court are black.
Congressional opponents of the laws establishing more severe sentencing for crack cocaine than powdered cocaine are racially discriminatory because they hit more directly at the black community, where this form of drug abuse is more commonplace.
Who gives a shit? A drug dealer, dealing in one form of cocaine or another, deserves jail time. Who cares if he's black or white? Sure, a judge should have discretion when it comes to dealing out a sentence, but to complain that a punishment for a crime is "discriminatory" simply because more people from one ethnic background commit the crime over another is crap.
Do you hear Jeffrey Skilling complaining that race was a factor in his 24 year sentence for the "white collar" crimes of fraud and other crimes he committed? No, of course not, but yet, here we are with one set of criminals complaining about their sentence and they are trying to inject race into something that race has nothing to do with.
Derrick Kimbrough knew that dealing drugs was a crime, yet he did it anyways, so I don't feel a lick of sorry for him. You do the crime, you do the time. If he appealed simply because it was an "unfairly long" sentence, that's one thing, but to inject racism into it just reeks of the Al Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's of the world.
Travis
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