"Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks"

[Type Username Here]

The White House lived by the principles of the southern strategy, and Dent's office had its own lingo. There were issues that mattered to "our" people, and those that mattered to "their" people. "Their" people were what the White House called "the young, the poor, and the black." The phrase rolled off the tongue like one word: theyoungthepoorandtheblack. The young were the longhaired student antiwar types for whom the president had open and legendary contempt; the poor and the black were leftover concerns from the Great Society.

Brownell daily read a dozen newspapers from around the country and clipped stories that played on those themes. He looked for stories about badly managed social programs, watched for currents of localized resentment, combed the columns for colorful quotes and juicy anecdotes the presidential speechwriters might use. He particularly kept an eye out for drug stories. Drugs were one thing the young, the poor, and the black all seemed to have in common.

Despite Nixon's assertion to the preelection Disneyland crowd that drugs were "decimating a generation of Americans," drugs were so tiny a public health problem that they were statistically insignificant: far more Americans choked to death on food or died falling down stairs as died from illegal drugs.

So Brownell was delighted that the media were inflating the story by melding the tiny "hard drug" herein threat with the widespread "soft drug".marijuana craze. Marijuana, Brownell knew, was a perfect focus for the anger against the antiwar counterculture that Nixon shared with "his people." Brownell dug out a-recent clip from Newsweek: "Whether picketing on campus or parading barefoot in hippie regalia, the younger generation seems to be telling [the middle-class American] that his way of life is corrupt, his goals worthless and his treasured institutions doomed. Logically enough, a good many middle-class-citizens tend to-resent the message."in an article Brownell might have penned himself, Newsweek identified the targets of that middle-class resentment this way: "The incendiary black militant and the welfare mother, the hedonistic hippie and the campus revolutionary." The young, the poor, and the black. Nixon couldn't make it illegal to be young, poor, or black, but he could crack down hard on the illegal drug identified with the counterculture.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/smoke.htm

 

[Ziggiy]

Cacs cacing breh. There is absolutely nothing that should surprise any of us about this.


The most dangerous thing in the world is a white man in power

 

[*Hulks Up*]

History really seems divided on whether or not Nixon was really for the black cause and the desegregation of America. Alot of the things JFK gets credit for as far as affirmative action and discrimination laws were really spearheaded by Nixon's administration with his minority employment quotas.

I think Nixon really fell back on his pushing for minority equality when 'Black Power' took off I guess as to not look like he was short changing his white voters who were already somewhat against him.

 

[ReggieFlare]

Wrong forum breh

 

[Type Username Here]

Wrong forum breh

shyt, my bad. Didn't realize that.

admin/ Mods please move to HL

@CHICAGO
@cook

 

[SuperNintendo Chalmers]

Keep it here. Maybe you can teach these c00n ass nikkas something. Lol

 

[Houston911]

Keep it here. Maybe you can teach these c00n ass nikkas something. Lol

Yeah I'll move it in a little

Some of these guys should see this

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

It was under Nixon that the conservative counterrevolution began....

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

the younger generation seems to be telling [the middle-class American] that his way of life is corrupt, his goals worthless and his treasured institutions doomed.

Damn right

Took 40 years for people to start realizing that that bullshyt anti-marijuana propaganda they created was nonsense.

 

[Broke Wave]

Damn right

Took 40 years for people to start realizing that that bullshyt anti-marijuana propaganda they created was nonsense.

And of course, that's all you took away from this article. That the drug war is bad policy and based on lies. There wasn't an underlying and more important point being made at all

#inherently

 

[Digga38]

ehh...they got him outta there for a reason....and by telling by oufr govt....may not be a bad thing

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

And of course, that's all you took away from this article. That the drug war is bad policy and based on lies. There wasn't an underlying and more important point being made at all

#inherently

1. The drug war is the SUBJECT of both the section quoted here and the entire article itself.

2. The more important, underlying point of the entire thing is the sentence that I quoted and saluted.

3.

 

[kash10003]

wrong forum :bodahell:

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Damn right

Took 40 years for people to start realizing that that bullshyt anti-marijuana propaganda they created was nonsense.

Nixon's war on drugs was his saving grace, it basically kept him in office. And Nixon just basically gave the public what they already wanted, for him to declare these hippies and rebels as a sort of criminal class.


edit-the VOTING public I should say.

 

[#StarkSet]

And of course, that's all you took away from this article. That the drug war is bad policy and based on lies. There wasn't an underlying and more important point being made at all

#inherently

He is Japanese