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And things like the ‘war on drugs’ was created to target non-white people

by youngtaff 3y ago

wtcactus 3y ago
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- fnordian_slip 3y ago
  Since on hn, it is common courtesy to give others the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume your comment is made out of ignorance, not malice. In that spirit, you might profit from the following quote: “You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. 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 Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
- dopidopHN 3y ago
  It’s been pretty well documented at this point that the crack epidemic was not fought by the CIA , but rather welcome. ( see “contra trafficking” )
- punkybr3wster 3y ago
  Or, you know, read things instead of appealing to the stone. https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race-mass-incarceration-and-disastrous-war-drugs https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race... https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2106&context=lawreview https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

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And things like the ‘war on drugs’ was created to target non-white people

by youngtaff 3y ago

And things like the ‘war on drugs’ was created to target non-white people

wtcactus 3y ago
[flagged]
- fnordian_slip 3y ago
  Since on hn, it is common courtesy to give others the benefit of the doubt, I'll assume your comment is made out of ignorance, not malice. In that spirit, you might profit from the following quote: “You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. 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 Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
- dopidopHN 3y ago
  It’s been pretty well documented at this point that the crack epidemic was not fought by the CIA , but rather welcome. ( see “contra trafficking” )
- punkybr3wster 3y ago
  Or, you know, read things instead of appealing to the stone. https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow https://www.aclu.org/documents/drug-war-new-jim-crow https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs https://www.nacdl.org/Content/Race-and-the-War-on-Drugs https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race-mass-incarceration-and-disastrous-war-drugs https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race... https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2106&context=lawreview https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...