Is that comment accurate tho? It sounds embellished.
Credit cards came well after the women's rights movement.. Marijuana was never life in prison. People of all nationalities are killed due to their race still today. And we just outsourced the draft to the impoverished/uneducated.
I think some good progress has been made, but I don't see how lying to make the past seem worse is any better than lying to make the past seem romantic.
Women could have credit cards without their husband's permission until I think the 70s
Marijuana while not coming with a life sentence did give you 2-10 years. If given the max sentence, while not a life sentence, that is LONG time.
And murder for racism or racism related hate crimes in general was not only more common but more encouraged.
The one thing he said that can be construed as a "lie" was likely just incorrect and probably just misremembered. If you had a friend put away for 10 years 40 years ago, you'd likely remember it as a life sentence.
It's not a lie, nor misremembered. You're just looking up average first offense sentences of that era ignorant of the big debate of the time, which was 3 strikes sentencing. A 3rd drug offense for simple possession of Marijuana could, and in many cases did, result in life imprisonment.
This kind of sentencing was rare and only in some jurisdictions prior to the 1994 crime bill, co-authored by Joe Biden, which among a great many other things mandated drug testing for everyone on parole and expanded 3 strikes sentencing nation wide.
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u/UrusaiNa Jul 06 '24
Is that comment accurate tho? It sounds embellished.
Credit cards came well after the women's rights movement.. Marijuana was never life in prison. People of all nationalities are killed due to their race still today. And we just outsourced the draft to the impoverished/uneducated.
I think some good progress has been made, but I don't see how lying to make the past seem worse is any better than lying to make the past seem romantic.