Obama To Sign Initiative To Keep Young Minority Men in School and Out of Jail
Don't get your hopes up, he's not ending the War on Drugs
President Obama will announce an initiative on Thursday designed to help keep young minority men in school and out of jail.
The program, dubbed "My Brother's Keeper," will ask businesses and foundations to fund programs across the country designed to support men of color in school and reduce their "negative interactions with the criminal justice system." A White House official told The Washington Post, which first reported the initiative, that those interventions "have been shown to have the greatest impact" on urban youths.
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So Eric Holder is going to stop putting them in jail for buying, selling and smoking various plant, their extracts and derivatives? Stop putting people in jail for voluntary behavior asshole.
“Young minority men” like George Zimmerman, or just Obama’s would-be sons?
I’m glad he’s ending the war on drugs. Oh wait, he’s just creating another bullshit program? I totally didn’t see that coming.