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Roger Stone is a rich white man convicted of OBSTRUCTION of justice & PERJURY. His sentence is being reduced.

Willie Simmons is a black man from Alabama currently serving a LIFE SENTENCE for stealing $9.

Never let anyone tell you justice is blind in America. It only sees color.
Willie Simmons is an army veteran who spent the past *38* years in jail because he stole $9.

He is a victim of the cruel, racist habitual offender law (similar to 3-strikes laws) which rob people of their humanity for political points.

He should be free.
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Sentencing in America is NIGHTMARE of racist precepts designed to imprison black men.

Black people are sentenced to life without parole for non-violent crimes at *4 TIMES* the rate of white people for the EXACT SAME CRIMES.

SOURCE: ACLU aclu.org/sites/default/…
On a personal note--

My father was in prison. He got out and turned his life around. He was a great father and he saved my life.

He deserves enormous credit for that.

But this is America in 2020 so let's just speak the truth: if he was black, he wouldn't have made parole.
He wouldn't have been given that second chance to be the wonderful father he was.

There are hundreds of thousands of black men (and women) sitting in jail cells RIGHT NOW for minor crimes bc of cruel sentencing laws. They have kids too. Mothers & fathers & people who miss them.
We spend so much time on here preaching empathy for those facing struggles different from our own.

If you don't include the mostly black men who are victims of a system founded on white supremacy, then you're ignoring the biggest tragedy of dehumanization of the 21st century.
People preach empathy but then turn their backs on these people, leaving them to rot for doing next to NOTHING, denying them their basic humanity. It's wrong.

We must be a voice for the voiceless.

My dad *who was in prison* (and the best man I ever knew), taught me that.
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