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Is that what we did? Or did we notice brown and black people using drugs and decide that was the reason to put them in jail?
by vibrato 8y ago
Is that what we did? Or did we notice brown and black people using drugs and decide that was the reason to put them in jail?
- rosser 8y ago"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John Erlichman, domestic policy advisor to Richard M. Nixon
- crooked-v 8y ago> "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
- rosser 8y agoInteresting that we both posted the same quote within seconds of one another.
- raziel2701 8y agoClearly you're both taking the same drugs!