Dick Durbin Launches Repentant War on Drugs, RacismS  With all
the swastika-carving and interracial marriage-objecting, among
other things, it appears the States have regressed back to a
state of full blown racism. That's only partially true, because
Dick Durbin today introduced some race-blind drug legislation.
And it's personal...  It's no secret that the justice system
weighs crack and powder cocaine on entirely different scales:
crack, which came out of the black (scary!) inner city, garners
a far harsher sentence than lily white blow. As WaPo notes, "It
takes 100 times as much powdered cocaine as crack to trigger the
same mandatory minimum sentence." That's thanks to 1986
legislation that Durbin himself supported. But now, perhaps
swept up by all the race talk, Durbin says he made a "mistake"
and wants to right the drug wrongs.  The sentencing disparity
between crack and powder cocaine has contributed to the
imprisonment of African Americans at six times the rate of
whites and to the United States' posit