“Free Weezy!” Lil Wayne fans chanted for months when their favorite rapper was arrested for gun possession and drugs in February 2010. While the celebrity has been released from behind bars this week, he better not find himself behind an actual bar – or back to prison he will go!
According to the terms of his three year probation, Lil Wayne “may not consume or drink any substance containing alcohol” for the 36 month period, according to TMZ. He also must undergo unsupervised probation, 360 hours of community service and drug and alcohol testing by the probation department.
Additionally, Lil Wayne cannot knowingly associate with any person engaged in criminal activity or anyone with a criminal record without prior written approval.
If he violates his probation, Wayne may be sent back to prison to serve the rest of his term. If he can manage to obey all the terms of his probation, his felony drug charge will be dropped to a misdemeanor.
He was arrested in 2008 after authorities found cocaine, ecstasy and a handgun on his tour bus at a U.S Border Patrol checkpoint near Yuma. “Weezy pled guilty to one count of felony possession of a dangerous drug -- while the other drug charges and the gun charge were all thrown out,” according to TMZ.
Despite getting off on a few charges, the terms of Lil Wayne’s probation seem a little harsh when compared to how easy other celebrities have gotten off for past offenses. Two words: Paris Hilton. The reckless socialite was slapped with a DUI in 2006 and had her license suspended. In 2007, she was pulled over again for driving with the suspended license, and again later that year for driving 70 mph in a 30 mph zone with the same license. She was supposed to serve 45 days in jail, but only served 2 days and was re-sentenced to 40 days home confinement…in her mansion.
Sidekick Nicole Richie was arrested after drunkenly entering the freeway from the exit ramp and traveling in the wrong direction. The rich girl was sentenced to four days in jail but only served 82 minutes.
Another socialite, Khloe Kardashian, was arrested in March 2007 on DUI charges. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail but was released less than three hours into her jail time.
Do I even have to waste my energy talking about Lindsay Lohan? The actress has messed up time and time again and still is able to get by on a mixture of tears and cock and bull excuses.
What’s the common denominator with all the examples above? They are all rich, white, attractive women. There seems to be a double standard with who society feels comfortable punishing.
1 comments:
Interesting theory about the double standard. I think it's possible, but is there also a possibilty that rappers like Lil' Wayne and T.I., who are constantly in and out of jail, in a weird way don't mind going to jail because it allows them to keep up their "street cred"? Whereas rich, spoiled Hollywood starlets are scared of jail and have no reason to want to be there.
Cool way to provide a link, and that article does a good job of furthering your argument since only 2 out of the 15 celebs are black.
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