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Maria Lloyd, a blogger with Your Black World, is the daughter of Mario Lloyd. In 1989, Mario was given 15 life sentences for drug distribution by a judge in Chicago. It was his first offense and it was non-violent. His daughter is writing an open letter to the judge describing the pain of growing up without a father, as well as the humiliation of having to tell her friends that her father was incarcerated. Maria believes that her brother would not have died from gun violence had his father been there to guide him.
Most Americans agree that the War on Drugs was a tremendous failure, leading to Draconian sentences given to hundreds of thousands of men, mostly black. It has torn families apart for decades, and even the Obama Administration has spoken out against it. Given that President Obama made campaign promises to reduce sentences of those convicted of drug crimes, should he use the power of the pardon to commute sentences for those who’ve been left to die behind bars?
Maria Lloyd writes the following:
Dear Judge Marvin E. Aspen:
It took me some time to address you because I didn’t know you were the source of my anger until recently. In case you care to know who I am, I’m Maria Lloyd- the daughter of Mario Lloyd, the non-violent, first-time offender from Chicago. You sentenced him to 15 life sentences without parole on May 11, 1989. He has been incarcerated since I was the age of two. In addition to sending my father to prison, you also sentenced my grandmother, my aunt, and my uncle. You basically incarcerated my entire family.
I’m not one to make excuses for anyone’s poor decisions, including those of my own family. They broke the law, so they deserved punishment. I get it. I also get the point you were proving in punishing them: Drug trafficking is not tolerated in the state of Illinois. It’s quite obvious you were taking a very personal stand against the War on Drugs. Well, as you can imagine, I have too, but I’m sure our views differ.
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brotherscoe
July 4, 2012 at 2:18 am
I doubt this girls father could have prevented her brothers death, when he was dealing drugs himself which makes him part of the problem an accessory to her brother getting killed.How many kids were getting hooked on what he is selling? how many were killed in drug deals gone bad? I,m sorry this girls father brought this on himself. We need to quit comparing the illegal things what whites do to justify our actions of wrong doing, and start striving to make our communities better.I don’t care if the government is guilty of pushing drugs in the black communities,its only the parasites who sell it that dont want to work and they now cant work, because they are felons.
EQUALITARIAN
June 27, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Maria,
In Exodus 4:2 God asked Moses “What is in thine hand?” and he said a rod.
Maria, the rod in your hand is a pen.
Your father was convicted on drugs charges which is non-violent crime. It has been disclosed that J.P. Morgan, Aetna, and New Life, and other financial institution roots are linked to the 19th century slave trade. It profited free labor of more than 15,000 Africans.
Your father is doing his time now it is time the large financial institutions to do theirs for trafficking human flesh. Keep the pen moving, don’t stop. Don’t ever stop!
Melony
July 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Thx 4 your response Equalitarian. Some of us need 2 reflect bac 2 the beginning of the end & also recognize the in-our-face injustices. We are missing the whole picture. The conditioning is still being embedded within us.
meeeyeah
June 27, 2012 at 12:48 am
i am surrounded by comfortable loose mouthed dopers. lilee whyte.free as the air, meeyeah mad as spit.
leave hiz syht alon,geyte iit????
gontah move tah afrika neyxt weeec
Eddie
June 26, 2012 at 11:11 am
Pumping 528 POUNDS of coke into your neighborhood. Yeah, great guy. Should’ve only been given probation. *eye roll*
“A final contrast, this one in 1988 after the business had switched to dealing cocaine at the wholesale level, involved the confiscation of $1.2 million in suspected drug profits and 528 pounds of cocaine, Zopp said.”
Eddie
June 26, 2012 at 11:06 am
A first time offender that could afford to hire F. Lee Bailey. Nice! How much coke was Mario pushing a month?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-01-12/news/9001030917_1_charles-lloyd-cocaine-chicago
Eddie
June 26, 2012 at 10:58 am
Your father, the drug dealer, would be a good guide for your brother. What wonderfully warped thinking you have.
Derrick
June 25, 2012 at 4:18 pm
This is not a WAR ON DRUGS! This is a war on BLACK PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BLACK MEN!
Where do these youngsters get all these war weapons, drugs and other chemi(kills) from…the government. The government deals it to them; and they in turn, deal it in our communities.
This is why the pigs murder these young brothers because they are going to make sure they don’t squeal on them. This is why they shoot them in the back 2 or 3 times to make sure they are dead because these pigs are dealing these youngster the dope!
Do we make weapons? h**l NO! How can a murderer have a gun that was missing from a police department? THINK: The pigs are taking the weapons they confiscate and sell them back to these youngsters! THIS IS WHY THEY KILL THEM!
IT’S AMAZING HOW A CAUCASIAN PIG CAN KILL AN INNOCENT BLACK MAN, WOMAN, BOY OR GIRL WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS ON THEM, WHILE GETTING A FREE PASS, BUT WHEN WE PROTECT OURSELVES, IN SELF-DEFENSE, WE ARE THE CRIMINALS.
CAUCASIANS CAN GET CAUGHT DEALING COCAINE AND GET A SLAP ON THE HAND, BUT A BLACK MAN IS PUT IN JAIL FOR LIFE!