Where would the black community be had there been no 'Crack Era'?

[TheKongoEmpire]

43-Minute Listen

Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'​

July 13, 202 311:49 AM ET
Heard on Fresh Air


Tonya Mosley

President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 5, 1989.
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On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine that had been seized in a park across from the White House, saying: "It's as innocent looking as candy, but it's turning our cities into battle zones."

Looking back now, author and journalist Donovan X. Ramsey describes Bush's press conference as a form of propaganda designed to create a panic about the crack epidemic and to "demonize drug dealers and also addicts."

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Crack was just one part of the equation. We also had the deindustrialization of major cities, that took away jobs and removed trade classes out of high schools. And there was also the feminist movement and the government who made Black women feel that they can have kids without a man. Those 3 things together, really messed us up.

 

[Yzak]

I can tell by a lot if these answers that some of you guys didn't live through the crack era.

First off yes there was always drugs in ths community and Blacks weren't afforded the same opportunities as other races despite that the Black median income was coming up in the 70's. You had a rising Black middle class. More Black people were attending college and getting better jobs. When crack went into full force in 83-84, it halted a lot of that progress. If crack never hits it literally changes the course for Black people. We don't become targets of the war on crime. The prison industrial complex doesn't get filled with Black bodies. Black children don't come out of crack addicted mothers. Drug induced crimes go down and the renmants of the Black middle class don't flee Black cities and I'm probably missing a couple of points.

Imo, you also don't get the propaganda of cool drug dealers and killing each other in hip-hop.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Crack was just one part of the equation. We also had the deindustrialization of major cities, that took away jobs and removed trade classes out of high schools. And there was also the feminist movement and the government who made Black women feel that they can have kids without a man. Those 3 things together, really messed us up.

 

[Air Game Rule]

Besides slavery, Crack and social media clout are the worst things we’ve faced.

Worst thing about crack was majority of our hustlers weren’t allowed to wash their money and turn it legal like other communities get to do. Every race has a criminal underground. Asians got whorehouses everywhere. They get to wash that money.

CIA / Crack Instagram and AIDS

 

[lib123]

We would have more 50 year old Black men like this.






And fewer 50 year old Black men (raised by addicts and without fathers) like this.