Thread by @JoshuaBHoe

There were a lot of human beings who had been in prison since the 1980's - who were passed over in 2010 - most of them black and brown, because of the crack v cocaine disparity

A lot of them are home now, and a lot of that is b/c @VanJones68 worked with the Trump White House

https://twitter.com/JessicaJackson/status/1357769637488963585

If @VanJones68 had not done what he did, if he was not willing to work across the aisle....how exactly were those people (over 14k) coming home?

Being ideologically pure is great in theory, but I will stick with working to bring people home

It is really easy to take shots (@ananavarro) but what was the people on The View's plan to bring people home from prison during the Trump years? How could that have happened without alliances inside the White House exactly?

That is an honest question....I was involved in the day-to-day throughout the battle....I would love to hear how FSA could have passed without Kushner and Trump on board.....or are you saying you care more about the optics than the over 14k people who are home?

At the end of the day....and, if you care about PEOPLE more than politics, you would fully understand and embrace what @VanJones68 did to help the people in prison and their families...it is sooooo easy to throw verbal grenades from the sidelines

One more thing, if you take five minutes on my Tiwtter feed you will see THOUSANDS of my criticisms of Trump...but if you asked if I worked with Trump to pass the FSA I would respond like Col. Jessup in "A Few Good Men" - "You are damn right I did"

Why?

Because people who had spent DECADES in prison as the result of a racist law could finally COME HOME

I cried like a baby (and I can count the times I have cried on one hand) when it passed the Senate and I would do it again

This whole thing makes me so mad....the First Step Act retroactively addressed one of the most racist laws ever passed...the one that made crack count more in sentencing than cocaine....that happened, to a large extent b/c of @VanJones68