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

[DMGAINGREEN]

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 ?

 

[TRFG]

I'm black and it didn't affect my community

probably an AA thing

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

I'm black and it didn't affect my community

probably an AA thing

If you lived in the inner city in America during that time period you def witnessed the effects ... if your a foreigner then idk

 

[Mr Bubbles]

It still effects those communities. Those crack addicts still need a fix. Most of them didn't get into rehab and are on a revolving cycle of jail and alleys. They are in their 40's and 50's these days. Their addictions effected their kids starts at life. So black kids who already were going to have a hard time in life have an even bigger hurdle to overcome. That's why I can't stand people who think blacks should have been able to easily prosper after slavery. Blacks started with next to nothing after slavery. No money, no homes. Nothing. Then throughout history blacks are hit by roadblock after roadblock including the drug epidemic. Just because crack isn't huge anymore doesn't mean the problems caused by it poofed away.

 

[Paradise]

Green I can honestly say that drug use really didn't affect were I live... but what do I know.

I live in little town U.S.A. where we have a major crime every ten years.

 

[froggle]

I hate grammar nazis with a passion.....but there is a difference between affect/effect....................but you guys keep on cookin, interesting thread

 

[JayGatsby]

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

I hate grammar nazis with a passion.....but there is a difference between affect/effect....................but you guys keep on cookin, interesting thread

Good looks for correcting me breh ... I'm off the loud right so I wasn't really analyzing heavy on my typing

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Imagine half of the upstanding people in your neighborhood giving all of their income to the worst people in your neighborhood then when they ran out of income stealing and robbing to get income to give to the worst people in your neighborhood all over again. Meanwhile the worst people in your neighborhood are all killing each for the opportunity to sell death to the crackheads.

Sundown shyt turned into the zombie apocalypse then the community had to try and pick up the pieces when the sun came up. Damage happened three times as fast as repairs did.

 

[newarkhiphop]

What's Crack

 

[Mowgli]

Completely destroyed 2 generations. Arguably 3

 

[wickedsm]

As horrible as y'all who weren't there can imagine.
It was worse.
That shyt was like a plague of biblical proportions
People robbing their grandmothers, mothers selling their children for sex
Whole families strung out
People selling every possession, down to their silverware
Dudes who used to be the shyt, chicks who used to be the shyt
20 years old, looking every bit of 50.
Gunfights every day
Little kids running around dirty and hungry cause somebody was only living for the pipe

Y'all just don't know.

 

[BrothaZay]

Completely destroyed 2 generations

Which generations

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

Imagine half of the upstanding people in your neighborhood giving all of their income to the worst people in your neighborhood then when they ran out of income stealing and robbing to get income to give to the worst people in your neighborhood all over again. Meanwhile the worst people in your neighborhood are all killing each for the opportunity to sell death to the crackheads.

Sundown shyt turned into the zombie apocalypse then the community had to try and pick up the pieces when the sun came up. Damage happened three times as fast as repairs did.

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 .

 

[DrX]

i was born in 87...but in the 90s I remember crackheads(some my family members) roaming the streets like zombies, 20-30 dudes on every corner, more violence, dice games in the middle of the streets, used condoms, needles and viles on the ground

things improved, when I do visit my grandma, the street I grew up on...its different...not perfect but way calmer, alot cats from that era are either dead, locked up, strung out or just out grew the street life