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

[3rdWorld]

The effects became generational.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Trying to say they ran concurrent is not true.


Art Barr

I said continuation. Aids came onto the scene in the 80's Heroin usage dropped and Crack took its place.

 

[Art Barr]

I said continuation. Aids came onto the scene in the 80's Heroin usage dropped and Crack took its place.

I said continuation. Aids came onto the scene in the 80's Heroin usage dropped and Crack took its place.

The us governmenr purposefully destroyed the black home, infrastructure, prescience, home training, use of common sense, social stratification, dating plus more with crack. On a level that far surpassed heroin usage.
Heroin was never dominant in the destruction of black social stratification.
like crack damaged everything.




Art Barr

 

[010101]

opiates always in season*

 

[KidJSoul]

The crack era was a continuation of the 60's and 70's heroin problem.

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[KidJSoul]

The us governmenr purposefully destroyed the black home, infrastructure, prescience, home training, use of common sense, social stratification, dating plus more with crack. On a level that far surpassed heroin usage.
Heroin was never dominant in the destruction of black social stratification.
like crack damaged everything.




Art Barr

But some issues in the Black community started before Crack.

That's why we dont talk about the 60s enough

 

[Black Hans]

We're not dealing with the effects of the crack era. We're dealing with the effects of people playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. Quit making excuses for the just outcomes of not walking wisely.

 

[WesCrook]

All of these dialysis places popping up over the past decade

 

[NinoBrown]

Look at Philly, NY, Camden, Trenton, Baltimore, Houston, LA, Oakland, Dayton, Kansas City, Atlanta, and tell me it's okay for us....

Crack epidemic was hyped up by Boomers and was on their watch and fukked the upcoming generations...

Don't have much of a chance fighting off Jim Crow, Crack, War on Drugs, Prison Pipeline, Recession, Redlining, COVID, TikTok BrainRot, and 8 years (hopefully no more) of Trump....

We feel it because Black Americans in the 1920s were smarter and almost in better off in someways than the disgrace we've shown our elders and ancestors so far....

 

[Tair]

@shakobe

 

[Art Barr]

But some issues in the Black community started before Crack.

That's why we dont talk about the 60s enough

Before crack black america was beautiful.
Were you cognitive and prescient in 80 - 86?


Art Barr

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

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The Heroin era laid the foundations for the Crack era. If you look throughout history chaos just doesn't come out of the blue it's a gradual build up over many years 10-15-20 years. The 70's is the start of the socio-economic decline in inner-city communities. Especially those from Black Caribbean Puerto Rican and Latin communities and backgrounds. Who many had only a decade earlier had migrated from the South to the North or had come from Caribbean Puerto Rico and Latin America to NY and DC or Chicago.

The 2 main things are The Vietnam War and Nixon's administration targeting AntiWar Left and Black Community which went on to become his War on Drugs. Nixon's administration wanted to associate White Hippies who were the antiwar left with Weed and the Black Community with its civil rights demonstrations and the Black Power/Nationalism movements with Heroin.

To go back to the Vietnam war a couple of things happened. The money that was being given to poverty and civil rights causes in the first half of the 60's was redirected to the war fund in the second half of the 60's. Many of the GI who came back from Vietnam in the 60's had already picked up an addiction and were selling and the soldiers still fighting in Vietnam were using to help them get through the fighting along with LSD Weed and other drugs. So now Vietnam War has ended and you have these soldiers suffering from PTSD from the racism the horrors of war. Also questioning themselves about the war itself the rights and wrong of it etc etc. Now imagine all of those children and teens who grew up in the 70's whove seen their fathers suffer from PTSD drug abuse domestic violence or had no father or uncle or brother to help bring them up either them being KIA or be absent in their lives. Now theyve become teens and young adults just when Crack is about to hit.

 

[KidJSoul]

Many of the GI who came back from Vietnam in the 60's had already picked up an addiction and were selling and the soldiers still fighting in Vietnam were using to help them get through the fighting along with LSD Weed and other drugs.

I did not know this. Thanks for the info

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I did not know this. Thanks for the info

Oh it gets more darker. When the Military started cracking down on weed because their was a stigma in the media back in the US and Nixon's War on drugs the soldiers started taking more heroin instead.