Former Nixon Aide Claims ‘War on Drugs’ Invented to Suppress Black People

bearkat42

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John Ehrlichman reportedly said that the drug policies of the Nixon administration were used to “disrupt the black community.”

“ ... We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

President Richard Nixon’s chief domestic adviser during the 1971 launch of the “war on drugs” said that he invented the president’s drug policies so that the administration could neutralize its enemies, specifically “the anti-war left and black people,” according to an article in Harper’s Magazine.

John Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison for his role in the Nixon White House’s Watergate scandal, reportedly bared his (dark) soul to journalist Dan Baum in 1994, and those words made it into Baum’s April Harper’s cover story, “Legalize It All.”

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More wailing and gnashing of teeth at stuff that happened over 40 years ago...

You are not happy unless you roll in your victimhood daily eh?
 
NLXSK1 said:
More wailing and gnashing of teeth at stuff that happened over 40 years ago...

You are not happy unless you roll in your victimhood daily eh?
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When laws that were introduced decades ago (Rockerfella) where football scores were the norm for sentences (30 to forever) that were targeted to Black/Hispanic neighborhoods, but if this happened in your hood, you would have the very same vitriolic stance.

I had friends who got busted with 10 vials of crack in their pocket and never saw them again because their sentences were that long, I'm always in my old hood and run into family of old friends and I'll ask "how's Waxy doing" or Froggy and they'll say "oh he's coming up for parole next year" and when you Read in the papers about MF like Deloreon getting busted with pounds of cocaine to help his car company, getting a walk that really slams home how fucked up this system really is.

So i say, keep it coming BK, keep it coming! Like Richard Pryor said "in prison you see 'just us'" there isn't any fucking justice for poc.

B4L
 
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Blunted 4 lyfe said:
When laws that were introduced decades ago (Rockerfella) where football scores were the norm for sentences (30 to forever) that were targeted to Black/Hispanic neighborhoods, but if this happened in your hood, you would have the very same vitriolic stance.

I had friends who got busted with 10 vials of crack in their pocket and never saw them again because their sentences were that long, I'm always in my old hood and run into family of old friends and I'll ask "how's Waxy doing" or Froggy and they'll say "oh he's coming up for parole next year" and when you Read in the papers about MF like Deloreon getting busted with pounds of cocaine to help his car company, getting a walk that really slams home how fucked up this system really is.

So i say, keep it coming BK, keep it coming!

B4L
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Their brains haven't developed enough to understand the concept of "institutionalized racism". It's like someone who struggles in math looking at a complex word problem. If they aren't seeing police dogs and fire hoses, everything must be OK. Racists haven't gone anywhere, their tactics have just become more sophisticated. I'm providing a public service here. They should look at me as a type of "racial tutor". I'm just here to educate the ignorant.
 
Blunted 4 lyfe said:
When laws that were introduced decades ago (Rockerfella) where football scores were the norm for sentences (30 to forever) that were targeted to Black/Hispanic neighborhoods, but if this happened in your hood, you would have the very same vitriolic stance.

I had friends who got busted with 10 vials of crack in their pocket and never saw them again because their sentences were that long, I'm always in my old hood and run into family of old friends and I'll ask "how's Waxy doing" or Froggy and they'll say "oh he's coming up for parole next year" and when you Read in the papers about MF like Deloreon getting busted with pounds of cocaine to help his car company, getting a walk that really slams home how fucked up this system really is.

So i say, keep it coming BK, keep it coming! Like Richard Pryor said "in prison you see 'just us'" there isn't any fucking justice for poc.

B4L
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And planned parenthood kills millions of black babies every year with their mothers help. But somehow this is a great thing!!

The past cannot be changed. Dwelling in it does not help the living.
 
bearkat42 said:
Why do you care how or where I grew up, because racism certainly doesn't.
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You werent born a poor black child...

I might as well accuse you of black priviledge. You were never poor, you never suffered that experience yet you wrap yourself up in that pity flag. Poor Bearkat making 6 figures every year... Pity Bearkat.

Bearkat wants more tears for him today!!!
 
NLXSK1 said:
You werent born a poor black child...

I might as well accuse you of black priviledge. You were never poor, you never suffered that experience yet you wrap yourself up in that pity flag. Poor Bearkat making 6 figures every year... Pity Bearkat.

Bearkat wants more tears for him today!!!
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Lol, that you think that this matters. This is exactly what I mean when I say that your brains aren't developed enough.
 
You accuse me of white priviledge. When I point out you were just as priviledged you do not see the similarity.

You are about as authentic as Elizabeth Warren. She is American Indian of course and has suffered like her ancestors. You poor poor people.
 
NLXSK1 said:
You accuse me of white priviledge. When I point out you were just as priviledged you do not see the similarity.

You are about as authentic as Elizabeth Warren. She is American Indian of course and has suffered like her ancestors. You poor poor people.
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You clearly don't understand the concept of white privilege. It has nothing to do with my or my family's economic status. Your problem is that you just can't see past money. What does my money have to do with the fact that my 18 old daughter still gets followed around in certain stores. What does my money have to do with police looking at me differently than they would look at a white driver driving though certain neighborhoods?
 
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