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To: i-node who wrote (719347)	6/4/2013 1:43:58 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1580216

Pot Busts Are Racially Biased in Every US County BLACK PEOPLE 8 TIMES AS LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED IN SOME STATES By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Jun 4, 2013 3:00 AM CDT \| Updated Jun 4, 2013 7:59 AM CDT (NEWSER) – Police forces all across America are singling out black people for marijuana arrests, according to an ACLU study using arrest data from all 50 states. Black people use marijuana at the same rate as white people, the study found, but they are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for possession nationwide, and around eight times as likely in states including Minnesota and Iowa, the New York Times reports. Marijuana busts still make up around half of all drug arrests, despite the loosening of laws in many states. "We found that in virtually every county in the country, police have wasted taxpayer money enforcing marijuana laws in a racially biased manner," says the director of the ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project. The study—which notes that arrests for possession of even tiny amounts of the drug can devastate people's lives—blames some of the disparity in arrests on federal programs that tie funding to arrest numbers, leading police departments to focus on poorer neighborhoods to rack up large numbers of arrests for low-level offenses.

To: i-node who wrote (719347)	6/4/2013 1:53:37 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580216

Cheerios ad with interracial family gets slams but also support Sarah Muller, @digimuller 12:24 AM on 06/04/2013 The new Cheerios ad featuring an interracial couple and their daughter inspired an outpouring of comments online, ranging from the strongly supportive to racist mudslinging. While positive comments vastly outnumbered the negative nearly 10-to-1, the cereal company decided to shut down the comments section of its YouTube posting due to the ferocity of some of Internet haters. “The comments that were made were, in our view, not family friendly. And that was really the trigger for us to pull them off. Ultimately we were trying to portray an American family, and there are lots of multicultural families in America today,” said Camille Gibson, the Cheerios Vice President for Marketing. Lynne Collins, a spokeswoman for the New York advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi which produced the commercial said, “It is important for us to make sure the work reflects the people we’re trying to sell products to.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell discussed the topic in his Rewrite segment on Monday, describing the uglier comments as “the kind of racism you had every right to expect would be extinct in a country with a biracial president.” During the segment, the Last Word host ate a mouthful of Cheerios and re-aired the commercial in support of the ad. tv.msnbc.com