Kansas state rep: Black people 'responded the worst' to marijuana because of 'their genetics'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

A GOP lawmaker in Kansas said that African Americans respond worse to marijuana because of “their genetics" and "their character makeup."

State Rep. Steve Alford (R) said at a “legislative coffee” session on Saturday that Jim Crow-era policies banning drugs such as pot were to protect other citizens from the drug use of black Americans.

“Basically any way you say it, marijuana is an entry drug into the higher drugs,” Alford said, as first reported by The Garden City Telegram. “What you really need to do is go back in the ’30s, when they outlawed all types of drugs in Kansas and across the United States.”

“What was the reason why they did that? One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, it’s the African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics and that,” he continued.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/367987-kansas-state-rep-black-people-respond-to-marijuana-worst-off-because-of

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "it's the African Americans"

He should have gone on with a Frothy-ism and said "the blacks".

[Soxfan58]

27. My guess

He was thinking much worst

[BumRushDaShow]

30. He coulda done "the blah... people"!

[SpankMe]

2. Rep. Alford takes his "legislative coffee" black, I'm sure. n/t

[irisblue]

3. .

[Ohiogal]

4. Where do they find these Neanderthals?

[Aristus]

6. Kansas.

n/t

[PatSeg]

5. What the hell!

Is he Steve King's long lost brother?

[jmowreader]

7. It's those damn sixteenth notes

This is a real Harry Anslinger quote. Anslinger was the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Washington.

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”

(https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/marijuana-prohibition-racist_n_4590190.html)

[irisblue]

8. And of course, the old man is on the corrections & juvie justice committees.

[procon]

9. "their character makeup, their genetics", sounds like it came from some Nazi manifesto. nt

[Roy Rolling]

10. He tried to dial it back...but failed

"Oh, sorry. What did I say? African-Americans? Should I have said coloreds? I gotta tell you, I'm at a loss on this one..."😅😅

(Not an actual quote)

[AJT]

11. and what's his explanation of the use of opiods and meth being overwhelmingly white folks?

Oh, and a higher percentage of whites are pot smokers than african americans.

[Lochloosa]

14. Hey, we like our drugs, you know. White.

[handmade34]

12. what the

fuck is wrong with these people?? we must remove them from positions of power

[vkkv]

13. Back in the 30's the Viper rooms were safe and peaceful it was the alcohol movers that were shooting

and killing people.

Okay, that's a lot of supposing, but hey, seems right.

Viper sounds = hhsshhsshhsshhss inhaling a joint.

[mountain grammy]

15. He's a racist piece of shit.

If I lived in Kansas, I'd send him a piece of shit.

[jayschool2013]

35. In the video

he notes that Coloradans are lighting up in the streets, and that's a violation of his desire to breathe clean air.

Zach Worf, president of Finney County Democrats, interrupts and tells him that's against the law in Colorado.

I just moved from Colorado to Iowa, and it's amazing the picture that people have of Colorado, as if you can't walk down the street without somebody blowing weed smoke in your face.

[mountain grammy]

43. I watched.. yeah that's how it is here in lala land.

racist piece of shit.

[LittleGirl]

16. Good grief

where do they find these idiots?

[riversedge]

17. Why are dangerous bigoted idiots such as him doing in the legislature??

[Eugene]

18. Trotting out the 100-year-old "negro cocaine fiend" argument.

Such great progress that he said "African Americans" instead of ...

[riversedge]

19. Bigoted "Alford was talking to a crowd with no black people present,"

[marble falls]

20. He is wrong about gateway drugs, you know - 30% of heroin addicts smoked pot first, nearly 100%...

drank milk before they began using heroin.

[BadGimp]

21. What an Ass Clown!

[Codeine]

37. Omg thats excellent!! nt

[samnsara]

22. in the meantime, Wash. state Gov Jay Inslee is telling Wash DC to...

......legalize pot on a federal level.

[PatrickforO]

23. Every time I read of stupid comments like this from Republican elected officials,

I wonder how in hell they were elected in the first place.

[truthisfreedom]

24. Hes toast.

[LonePirate]

31. He is not toast. His support probably went up. He represents a very rural and very white district.

[dhill926]

25. wow.....

all I got....

[shenmue]

26. What a mo-ron

[TheOther95Percent]

28. WTF?

Hey GOP! Here's reason number 12,034 why people of color tend to vote for Democrats. Imagine if someone attacked my ethnicity by saying that excessive potato consumption coupled with genetics predisposed the Irish to alcoholism. Like mama said, people who say stupid things tend to be stupid.

[muntrv]

29. Explain why meth heads are white, ignoramus.

[lordsummerisle]

32. Right now

The Onion is kicking itself that it didn't write this story first...

[d_r]

33. Dear lord

There's video, he said that in front of a group of people on video and everyone just sort of Sat there.

[jayschool2013]

34. Here's to brave Kansans such as Zach Worf

Worf is the president of Finney County Democrats.

From the Garden City Telegram:

On Saturday, Worf said that for a brief moment he felt like he’d been taken back in time. He added that after the Q&A session concluded, he told Alford his comment was “the most racist thing [he had] ever heard.”

[Codeine]

36. Holy fucking shit.

Who ARE these people?!

[CakeGrrl]

38. Confirming Beauregard Sessions' TRUE motivation for going after marijuana...nt

[eShirl]

39. a living fossil of sorts

just wow

[rusty quoin]

40. They were political fossils 20-30 years ago.

The environment has changed and allowed their comeback, one in I hope is short-lived.

[Honeycombe8]

41. OMG. Can ANYONE be that stupid?

Both to think that....and then to say that out loud? In 2018?

[tclambert]

42. Let me guess, he's not a doctor or a scientist.

But that won't stop him from "congress-'splaining" the science to people who know far more than he does.

[Marcuse]

44. This Republican has new science based documented evidence proving his assertion.

[Bengus81]

45. He's a Rep for far western Kansas that many places went 90%+ for Trump

he feels enabled to say shit like that. Of course now he's back peddling his ass off but he meant every word of it.

[Toorich]

46. What will he republisplain next?

Native Americans and fire water?