Barbara Lee: “Black and Brown people are targeted more frequently than White Americans, despite equal rates of use. Additionally…”

“Black and Brown people are targeted more frequently than White Americans, despite equal rates of use. Additionally, prison sentences for Black and Brown people are more likely to be lengthier than White people. Black men receive sentences over 13 percent longer than White men, and nearly 80 percent of people in Federal prisons for drug offenses are Black or Latino. So it is time to end these unjust laws which shatter the lives of so many young people of color. I tell you, colleagues, we have got to give our young people a second chance. So please vote ``yes'' on this bill to help us move our unfinished business of liberty and justice for all forward. We have got to begin to really provide racial justice, crack these chains of systemic racism and this mass incarceration judicial system. Mr. Speaker, I urge an ``aye'' vote.”