Black people are getting arrested for weed related crimes, meanwhile I show up at a private school and my classmates are doing drugs i hadn’t even heard of
“You want to know what this 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, Nixon’s former domestic policy advisor, speaking in 1994.
marcusmosh on July 9th, 2020 at 10:15 UTC »
The supposed ‘war on drugs’ worked real well to demonize poor black communities and feed the prison system.
Chapea12 on July 9th, 2020 at 11:03 UTC »
Black people are getting arrested for weed related crimes, meanwhile I show up at a private school and my classmates are doing drugs i hadn’t even heard of
DaveJaVous on July 9th, 2020 at 12:58 UTC »
“You want to know what this 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, Nixon’s former domestic policy advisor, speaking in 1994.