Topic: Fairness

Stacey Abrams appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she is credited with transforming Georgia's electorate. The hosts scrutinize the claim that Abrams registered 800,000 new voters in just two years, noting that this would represent one-fifth of the state's total voting population. They question the validity of these numbers given her relatively small social media following.

In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act to reduce the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences. However, the hosts point out that the law only reduced the ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, rather than eliminating it. They criticize the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration for failing to achieve a 1-to-1 ratio despite having a Democratic majority.

In 1973, the Department of Justice sued Fred and Donald Trump for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against Black renters in Brooklyn and Queens. Undercover "testers" revealed that Black applicants were told no apartments were available, while white applicants were shown units immediately. The lawsuit alleged that the Trumps sought to reserve specific buildings for white tenants while relegating people of color to less desirable locations.

The conversation shifts to how modern social justice movements view nepotism and bias as inherently wrong. One participant reflects on childhood lessons about life being unfair, suggesting that people will always look out for their own "brothers," whether based on religion, race, or other shared identities.

The discussion centers on the 100-to-1 sentencing ratio established in 1986, where one gram of crack was legally equivalent to 100 grams of powder cocaine. Mo points out the irony that crack contains less actual cocaine than the powder version. They credit Barack Obama for the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity to 18-to-1, though they argue the underlying "scam" remains.