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Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

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“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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, who served 18 months in prison for his central role in the Watergate scandal, was Nixon’s chief domestic advisor when the president announced the “war on drugs” in 1971. The administration cited a high death toll and the negative social impacts of drugs to justify expanding federal drug control agencies. Doing so set the scene for decades of socially and economically disastrous policies.

Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story of Harper’s about how he interviewed Ehrlichman in 1994 while working on a book about drug prohibition. Ehrlichman provided some shockingly honest insight into the motives behind the drug war. From Harper’s:
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us_56f16a0ae4b03a640a6bbda1

Any thoughts? I thought this was kinda known in the 80's with the explosion of crack in the black communities and the CIA's role in that. But I didn't really know this about Nixon.
 
The original Black Panthers were saying this in the late 60's or early 70's..Nixon did it I think
 
I thought the creation of properly sized pants and belts were meant to be a war on blacks?
 
Seano said:
Horrible idea. I've seen too many people ruined by crack and opiates to possibly be convinced that easier access is the solution.
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They're going to get it anyway. No matter what. There's not a single prison in America that is completely drug free. If prisons, who are engineered to be impenetrable fortresses, cannot keep drugs out, what chance does the rest of the country have?

Treat drug addiction as a medical problem, not a judicial one. Follow Portugal's lead and decriminalize ALL narcotics. People said the same thing you are saying now.. only it had the opposite effect. LESS people are using drugs than before the decriminalization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...anyone-dies-from-a-drug-overdose-in-portugal/

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WorldofWarcraft said:
They're going to get it anyway. No matter what. There's not a single prison in America that is completely drug free. If prisons, who are engineered to be impenetrable fortresses, cannot keep drugs out, what chance does the rest of the country have?

Treat drug addiction as a medical problem, not a judicial one. Follow Portugal's lead and decriminalize ALL narcotics. People said the same thing you are saying now.. only it had the opposite effect. LESS people are using drugs than before the decriminalization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...anyone-dies-from-a-drug-overdose-in-portugal/

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We'd never see the success Portugal. The gov't there pays for treatment and they also help pay for the former addicts to find work. They'll help pay the salary of the addict so business's hire them and the addict betters his life. That would never happen here.
 
Seano said:
Horrible idea. I've seen too many people ruined by crack and opiates to possibly be convinced that easier access is the solution.
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I'm not sure that legalization directly relates to easier access... just removes the crime of ingesting a substance. I have never done drugs, outside of booze, but my family felt the wrath of meth for about 10 years when I was growing up in Vegas through my brother and his friends. I still say that drugs should be a social worry, rather than a criminal one. If you commit a crime while high, then sure, incarceration, but no way in hell should a human being be put in jail for ingesting a substance.... fuck the government for trying to tell people what they can and can't put into their bodies.
 
I know that in my high school it was easier to get meth than beer. War on drugs made that possible.
 
True government CT's are always the most fun

Heard these on a Cracked podcast awhile back :

  • testing a "non-harmful" bacteria on San Fran that made ten people sick and one person die to test the spread of bio-weapons
  • in 1955, they wanted to see if they could spread Yellow Fever, so they dropped 300,000 mosquitos on Georgia (presumably they didn't have Yellow Fever lol)
  • The FBI changed the standards for alcohol that kept being stolen by bootleggers to brew their own booze so that it ended up lethal, but didn't bother to make it public, so thousands of people died during prohibition due to it.
 
The argument I hear on this particular topic is the government made the penalties on drugs used by AA's really harsh intentionally as basically the new Jim Crow laws (if you really want to know more about this check out YouTube) while drugs used by upper class people (aka white, Wall St execs) earn a slap on the wrist.

Source: Intro to Criminal Justice

I would post information from the textbook but since I'm pretty sure that's copyrighted information, YouTube is the place to go.
 
did the government also put in the pipe, light it and wait till Black people inhaled?
 
hughesfan20 said:
The argument I hear on this particular topic is the government made the penalties on drugs used by AA's really harsh intentionally as basically the new Jim Crow laws (if you really want to know more about this check out YouTube) while drugs used by upper class people (aka white, Wall St execs) earn a slap on the wrist.

Source: Intro to Criminal Justice

I would post information from the textbook but since I'm pretty sure that's copyrighted information, YouTube is the place to go.
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isnt crack and coke both schedule 2?
 
JudoThrowFiasco said:
isnt crack and coke both schedule 2?
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I'm not sure what Sherdog's policy is for quoting articles but check out the first paragraph of http://famm.org/projects/federal/us-congress/crack-cocaine-mandatory-minimum-sentences/ that link.

The punishment for crack cocaine vs regular coke after the War on Drugs got started is a slap on the wrist for regular coke vs throwing the book *figuratively speaking* for using crack cocaine.

EDIT: referring to the first offense
 
hughesfan20 said:
I'm not sure what Sherdog's policy is for quoting articles but check out the first paragraph of http://famm.org/projects/federal/us-congress/crack-cocaine-mandatory-minimum-sentences/ that link.

The punishment for crack cocaine vs regular coke after the War on Drugs got started is a slap on the wrist for regular coke vs throwing the book *figuratively speaking* for using crack cocaine.

EDIT: referring to the first offense
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its 15-1 for Hash vs weed

is that racist too?
 
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