Cameron Douglas Got 5 Yrs Because He's Rich & White!

Some people feel that Cameron Douglas should have gotten less time.I'm sure the folks that sympathize with Douglas must be in the same racial category as him.What black person feels sorry for Cameron Douglas after they realize that the sentencing phase would have been much harsher for one who shares their complexion?

The fate of the black man is all too often much worse than that of the white man.This case showcases the class & race disparities that continue to persist in America.Any black man with two previous drug convictions would have gotten way more than a 5 yr. sentence.And if you don't believe me,do the research for yourself.

Here's another opinion from the Global Post:

"More ridiculousness in America’s war on drugs yesterday, as the son of multimillionaire actor Michael Douglas was sentenced for five years for dealing methamphetamine from a trendy New York hotel.

The statutory minimum for this offence is ten years.

Whilst it is unusual to see a rich, white young man going to jail for drugs offences at all, this case does little to defend against the statistical fact that drug laws, particularly in America, are, for whatever reason, overwhelmingly enforced against poor young men from ethnic minorities with little or no education.

The fact that Cameron Douglas received a relatively lenient sentence highlights this problem in waging the drug war. Although the minimum sentence is technically much higher, it does seem somewhat perverse to throw a non-violent offender in jail at taxpayer expense for such a considerable length of time. This is especially true when it is clear that Douglas, like all drug addicts, needs treatment rather than punishment if he needs anything at all.

However, at the same time, the offence for which he was actually charged is the same that is used to go after violent, gang-affiliated thugs who sell exactly the same chemicals.

Because the same offence is used to criminalise such different people, it is only through mitigation pleadings in sentencing that differences between the dangerous, violent criminal, and the non-violent one can be distinguished. This is a relatively arbitrary process that gives an unfair prominence to wealth, race, social class, education and family background (or even more unjustly, a defendant’s political connections and the quality of his lawyers) to decide how long a person stays in jail."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

Here's more on Cameron Douglas from the NY Daily News:

"Michael Douglas' son Cameron is a crystal meth mega-seller who's peddled heaps of the drug in New York since 2006, the feds said on Thursday.

Cameron Douglas, 30, raked in tens of thousands of dollars with his operation - selling whole pounds of the addictive synthetic stimulant to one informant, according to a criminal complaint.

Cameron Douglas is the wanna-be actor son of the "Basic Instinct" star and the grandson of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas.

He was busted at a Manhattan hotel last week after allegedly mailing 215 grams of methamphetamine to a post office box in a package addressed to a "Paul Smith."

That was a fictitious name used by an informant - one of three the feds nabbed and turned against Douglas.

The feds say the Hollywood scion used code words like "pastries" and "bath salts" to discuss meth shipments in secretly recorded calls and texts.

"Did you get a chance to...smell any of the salts or anything like that?" he's quoted as asking an informant.

"The bath salts are fabulous! Thank you so much," the informant later responded.

"Yeah, I thought you would like them, my friend," Douglas replied. "I was so excited for you to take a bath and see for yourself."

The feds also said one informant introduced Douglas to another as a source of "large quantities of crystal meth."

Douglas' rap sheet includes two drug busts, in New York in 1999 and in California in 2007."(END OF EXCERPT)Read more here.

A poor black man with a rap sheet like that would have gotten life.That's so unfair.