13th amendment and a history of black slaves. Not just crack either. Not complicated: Nixon. His domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted in an interview that the Nixon administration’s “War on Drugs” was designed to target Black communities and anti-war activists.
Here’s the famous quote:
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 Black people with heroin, then, by 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.
Wow it’s so surprising such a country would devolve further, nobody saw it coming /s.
“What do you mean that broad legal and culturally normalized abuse hasn’t brought them to heel like dogs? Who TF do they think they are, resisting efforts to crush them under heel like insects?”
13th amendment and a history of black slaves. Not just crack either. Not complicated: Nixon. His domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted in an interview that the Nixon administration’s “War on Drugs” was designed to target Black communities and anti-war activists.
Here’s the famous quote:
Wow it’s so surprising such a country would devolve further, nobody saw it coming /s.
This should be at the top
“What do you mean that broad legal and culturally normalized abuse hasn’t brought them to heel like dogs? Who TF do they think they are, resisting efforts to crush them under heel like insects?”