What is the biggest indicator that we are still dealing with the effects of the crack era?

[cheek100]

Rappers

 

[frush11]

The crack era at least in NY ended in 95. Which means there are young adults younger than me who might have been born to a crack mother

95 ? You smoking crack?

 

[From the Soil]

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Lingering pan-Africanism.

 

[DonB90]

Glorification of criminality and crass materialism/capitalism at the expense of the greater good(family/community) is the legacy of the crack epidemic

 

[HarlemHottie]

Our current understanding of what constitutes 'a family'.

Bw's 'flee Blackistan' mode of feminism.

The wealth gap.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

For Black people, I'd say most of the toxic discourse surrounding Black identity and culture in the U.S. For example there probably wouldn't be gangsta rap if not for the crack era. As there would probably be less drug dealers as well as users among Black people.

Gender wars amongst Black Americans would be less pronounced, as the talking points concerning "single mothers" wouldn't be relevant if less Black men are lost to gang or police violence, addiction, or the legal system.

There would probably be less conservative Black folks if there was no crack era. As many right wing Black people actually encourage extra policing and harsher legal action in predominantly Black communities...due to crime that is a direct result of the crack era.

There's a lot more. But the crack did as much damage as Jim Crow arguably.

The Crack era definitely reverberates to today.

Gangsta Rap or Reality rap was just a inside scoop what was prevailing in a neighborhood.
Ice Cube called it being a “news reporter”.

NWA’s fukk the Police was a testament of police brutality towards blacks in America. This sentiment still remains till this day. The deaths of Freddie Gray, George Floyd, along with many prove this evidence.

The crack epidemic along with Reaganomics was a catastrophe for blacks in 80’s America

The reduction in funding for Housing and Urban Development would hit African Americans particularly hard as around 56% of African Americans lived in central cities and only around 20% in the suburbs, meaning they would take most of the hit for this action by the Reagan Administration. In addition the average African American family income was $15,432 compared to $27,686 for white families which made it significantly harder for African Americans to thrive, survive and gain financially and economically. Other programs like Food Stamps which disproportionately affected Afrcian American households more were changed and reduced and required all who apply to have to work in the next 30 days which was not very easy considering the economic hardships that were going on at the time.

Reaganomics Implications for African Americans

orsp.sonoma.edu

The crack era hits harder because dealers possessed crack as a cash crop. Using the black community as an lab rat experiment to maximize profit.



E.g. Freeway Rick Ross

 

[Wild self]

We need a whole Culture Anthropology about the changed values of black folks 1980s and beyond. From the 70s and before, Black folks were more conditioned to build themselves up the legit way and never tear one another down in public or in private. Even our Celebrities like Richard Roundtree, Muhammad Ali, and John Amos were about standing up to stereotypes and were heavily pushing black folks to get on code by all means.

Crack came in the 80s, and everyone adopted the selfish European "me, me, me" mentality and abandoned the greater good of the black community as a whole. The same time where materialism and the glorification of expensive shyt was being pushed as the standard of being made.

 

[the bossman]

There's a lot of people with mental/developmental/physical disabilities due to prenatal cocaine exposure that are still alive & kicking

and now they've had kids.

Look at the kids and grandkids of that generation breh these young boys are fukked up psychologically.

we literally see this playing out with all the crime DC youth are invovled in

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Young people still idolize pimps and gangsters.

IMO, The bigger issue is the loss of Blue collar manufacturing jobs in the 60s. Thats what compelled people to sell drugs in the first place. Also enabled welfare to break up families.