IT'S A VICTIMLESS CRIME, BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE WHITE

If George Bush Jr. were running for head of a country club and suggested he
may have used cocaine in his youth, that would be his own business. That
someone running for president of the United States does not understand the
terrible injustice in his white privilege is inexcusable. Bush had enough
money to buy good quality cocaine and could get away with his illegal
behavior because the police don't often investigate people of his family's
ilk for victimless crimes.

On the other hand, blacks who didn't have money were buying cheap, highly
addicting crack, committing robbery and prostitution to pay for their habit
and were being arrested and thrown into prison by the thousands. Bush's
father was responsible for enforcing policies that filled our prisons to
overflowing and eliminated the possibility of treatment for the addicted.
Neither of those insulated people -- father or son -- is qualified to be
our president.

Kate Bradley, Issaquah