Most black criminals are given longer sentences due to prior records. Ya know, committing more crime should come with harsher and harsher penalties.
Stop grouping all drug crime together or most people will not take you seriously. When it come to possession for use we should treat that differently, especially the first offense. But distribution should have harsh penalties. It causes extremely violent crime.

Similar crime statistics removing prior record is an irrelevant stat. So when you show me a broad study that takes into account allllll of the circumstances that are taken into account during sentencing, and you show me apples to apples comparisons between white and black criminals, and the results show a huge disparity we can begin to conversate.

Cherry picking crimes committed without the other factors being included is irrelevant. It's actually a way to be dishonest and pretend you're not

It exposes the fact that African-American defendants get more time behind bars — sometimes twice the prison terms of whites with identical criminal histories

based on the seriousness of their crime, the circumstances of their arrest and whether or not they have prior convictions

sentences for black males were 19.5 percent longer than those for similarly situated white males