Old Heads , How Much Did The Crack Epidemic Affect The Black/Spanish Community ?

[Cake]

I heard from older people it was real bad fiends outside 24/7 looking to score. Also heard stories about people with trash bags full of cash and stuff but all that sounds fake.
when I was 12 walking to school I remember fiends running up to me asking for shyt then realize I was a kid and dip off. And that was like 06

 

[Mowgli]

Which generations

Parents having kids in the late 70s, 80s, and their grandchildren.

So you got the first adopters
The Crack babies
The Crack babies kids
Then all the lives they ruined in between.

Why because cacs made a deal with the mafia and big business to profit from black destruction for their own glory

 

[TEH]

What's Crack

Something that's wack

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Sad part is that it was all deliberately orchestrated by the higher ups smh .. add in the 3 strike law that was implemented during that time it was just one big concoction for pure chaos in the community .

How do you get untraceable money out of citizens? Illegal vices. I think it was @Orbital-Fetus who broke down how heroin usage has been on the rise since the US has occupied Afghanistan and "locked down" the poppy fields.

The war on drugs is an economy within itself.

You give rich person money or get fronted for drug
Poor person gives you money for drug
City raises taxes to hire people to stop you selling drug
You go to jail owned by rich person for selling drug
Rich person finds a replacement for you

 

[DaRealness]

For as long as I can remember older heads always said that shyt changed immensely in the mid 80s . I recall my 6th grade teacher going on an anger fuel rant because we were being disruptive on how this neighborhood was pristine and safe until the mid 80s when people like you () arrived ... despite me being a little to young to comprehend the context of what she was saying that statement always stuck with me . Around that summer is when I started to watch movies like Paid In Full , New Jack City etc and seeing the time period where the movies transpired the pieces gradually started to come together .. not fully but partially . That was a period in my life when I really started to dissect and research virtually everything and one of those were the murder rates from back in the day , when I first saw that NYC peaked in 2000+ murders in 1990 something I literally made the as for other cities who had astronomical murder rates ... shyt seemed like a whole different realm back then in contrast to now , even though violence was always present in the ghetto , in the 80s and 90s it just looks like it elevated to alarming and unrealistic heights , the revenue the average drug dealer was accumulating was crazy ..... could you older cats expound more on how the transition into that era was like and how it impacted our communities into present times ?

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

I've seen that numerous times breh , good looks regardless though

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

How do you get untraceable money out of citizens? Illegal vices. I think it was @Orbital-Fetus who broke down how heroin usage has been on the rise since the US has occupied Afghanistan and "locked down" the poppy fields.

The war on drugs is an economy within itself.

You give rich person money or get fronted for drug
Poor person gives you money for drug
City raises taxes to hire people to stop you selling drug
You go to jail owned by rich person for selling drug
Rich person finds a replacement for you

Classic book revolving around the whole ordeal and how it was conducted ... highly recommend it

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

How do you get untraceable money out of citizens? Illegal vices. I think it was @Orbital-Fetus who broke down how heroin usage has been on the rise since the US has occupied Afghanistan and "locked down" the poppy fields.

The war on drugs is an economy within itself.

You give rich person money or get fronted for drug
Poor person gives you money for drug
City raises taxes to hire people to stop you selling drug
You go to jail owned by rich person for selling drug
Rich person finds a replacement for you

yeah, i broke it down.
France and America did the same thing to Vietnam.

before French occupation of Vietnam the Vietnamese were the #1 exporter of rice to the rest of the world.
After the French left and America tried to take over, Vietnam needed to IMPORT rice to feed it's people....WHY?
because now Vietnam was producing POPPIES for Heroine.

Heroine was sent back to the states in the bodies of dead American GI's to be sold so that the money could be
used to fund Black Ops that congress would not approve.


the same thing is being done in Afghanistan.

and like @Ghostface Trillah said....that shyt has consequences here in America for everyone.
some benefit and some suffer.


DON'T GET ME STARTED ON IRAN/CONTRA!!!

 

[DrX]

my uncle is still a fiend to this day, but dude was something else back in that era, I got stories for days...

I talk to my grandmother about this alot, she remember when the east of buffalo was majority white and how the neighborhood was fully developed and all the jobs were in the city and then once blacks moved in, white flight took place and they took everything with them, and the neighborhood deteriorated ....

she told me me about slumlords and how they would rent property's out to blacks and neglect them and how the houses just rotted

My dad told about how when crack first came out, nobody knew what it was and was just experimenting with it like it was some kind of recreational drug...and ppl started to really get addicted to it....he gotta alot of crazy crack tales

 

[Entrapta310]

yeah, i broke it down.
France and America did the same thing to Vietnam.

before French occupation of Vietnam the Vietnamese were the #1 exporter of rice to the rest of the world.
After the French left and America tried to take over, Vietnam needed to IMPORT rice to feed it's people....WHY?
because now Vietnam was producing POPPIES for Heroine.

Heroine was sent back to the states in the bodies of dead American GI's to be sold so that the money could be
used to fund Black Ops that congress would not approve.


the same thing is being done in Afghanistan.

and like @Ghostface Trillah said....that shyt has consequences here in America for everyone.
some benefit and some suffer.


DON'T GET ME STARTED ON IRAN/CONTRA!!!

you just put together some puzzle pieces for me. omg
so when hanoi, vietnam cut down their fields by 90% early 90's bush senior pushed to go into the middle east for it???
he snuffed out jfk to get into vietnam to begin with.
and now afghanistan took over the us heroin blakk market as of the 90;s.



that piece of shyt allowed letters to go out to those who were drafted and in training telling them they would get paid lots and lots of money if they took on a special mission top secret.
the ones who agreed got sent to vietnam. this was jan 1965!!!
the american troops got sent march 1965
that war started in 1955 and popped off in 1965 when all the american troops started getting dragged over there by the president.
18 and you were sent to war. and you had to PRAY you didnt get to the jungles of vietnam 66-75. smfh
a 20 year war over heroin????
the bushes did so much damage




please get started on IRAN. i like to read

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

very much so. especially in nyc

 

[Taadow]

OP, since this is a hip-hop board i'll make it easy on you...

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

you just put together some puzzle pieces for me. omg
so when hanoi, vietnam cut down their fields by 90% early 90's bush senior pushed to go into the middle east for it???
he snuffed out jfk to get into vietnam to begin with.
and now afghanistan took over the us heroin blakk market as of the 90;s.



that piece of shyt allowed letters to go out to those who were drafted and in training telling them they would get paid lots and lots of money if they took on a special mission top secret.
the ones who agreed got sent to vietnam. this was jan 1965!!!
the american troops got sent march 1965
that war started in 1955 and popped off in 1965 when all the american troops started getting dragged over there by the president.
18 and you were sent to war. and you had to PRAY you didnt get to the jungles of vietnam 66-75. smfh
a 20 year war over heroin????
the bushes did so much damage




please get started on IRAN. i like to read

The Iran/Contra affair is what got me started down this path.

search "School of the Americas".

Iran had American hostages in the early 80's.
Iran was at war with Iraq.
Iraq was our Ally.

Iran wanted weapons to fight Iraq in exchange for the hostages.
Reagan could not get Congress to approve giving funds for this.

Reagan bypasses this by overthrowing South American governments.
Reagan funds said rebels and drug traffickers.


Money from South American, CIA drug trade pays for weapons given to Iran.
Hostages are freed.
Reagan wins.

Drugs from South America are brought into America...Arkansas....Clinton......yeah.

Freeway Willy.

 

[Entrapta310]

The Iran/Contra affair is what got me started down this path.

search "School of the Americas".

Iran had American hostages in the early 80's.
Iran was at war with Iraq.
Iraq was our Ally.

Iran wanted weapons to fight Iraq in exchange for the hostages.
Reagan could not get Congress to approve giving funds for this.

Reagan bypasses this by overthrowing South American governments.
Reagan funds said rebels and drug traffickers.


Money from South American, CIA drug trade pays for weapons given to Iran.
Hostages are freed.
Reagan wins.

Drugs from South America are brought into America...Arkansas....Clinton......yeah.

Freeway Willy.

and bush senior was the vice president and in the late 50's and 60's head of the CIA
i wonder if his son called up his father for what to do as president

 

[Yehuda]

Classic book revolving around the whole ordeal and how it was conducted ... highly recommend it

Is this the book where dude says the C.I.A. financed its war on Nicaragua through crack sales in South Central L.A.?