I should start out by saying this is a delightfully well-written post despite the serious subject matter, nice ;) I think you're giving mid-century Americans t

I should start out by saying this is a delightfully well-written post despite the serious subject matter, nice ;) I think you're giving mid-century Americans too much credit. I think they were widely ignorant of Black history and racial issues and really had no concept of institutional racism--of which the War on Drugs was certainly a scion. Crime--and let's consider all its racializations--was also pretty bad, and voters across races and political lines are generally in favor of full on human rights violations to get it under control [0]. [0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/16/212620886/the-shift-in-black-views-of-the-war-on-drugs https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/16/212620886...