This something we learned in college.
This something we learned in college. The war on drugs? Yes, it was a defacto war on the Left and African American communities. No, that's not just a claim of pro-drug conspiracy theorists.
Originally shared by Kevin C. (KevinC)
Picked up from a friend. I felt it deserved a larger audience.
We're still paying the price years later.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? 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."
-John Ehrlichman
Chief Domestic Advisor under President Nixon, January 20, 1969 – November 4, 1969
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Originally shared by Kevin C. (KevinC)
Picked up from a friend. I felt it deserved a larger audience.
We're still paying the price years later.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? 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."
-John Ehrlichman
Chief Domestic Advisor under President Nixon, January 20, 1969 – November 4, 1969
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
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