There were plenty of people in the black community, including the NAACP who didn't want the bill, either because they knew what was going to happen. Generations ruined. Black men getting 30-year jail sentences for weed, 25 years for small ass amounts of crack. Why? All because, in Biden's words, Dems didn't want to appear weak on crime in the eyes of the Republicans and America. And that bill opened the door for shit like the three-strikes law, the school to prison pipeline, stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimums and a system of mass incarceration where ultimately black people are disproportionally imprisoned compared to any other race.