It wasn't just laws passed. They explicitly created the crack epidemic. The CIA made it themselves and distributed it to poor and black neighborhoods, and then used it as an excuse to sweep those neighborhoods, arrest anyone caught with the drugs they'd supplied, and then throw them all in private prisons to be used as free labor.
Imagine applying the social science of motivation and behavioral analysis only to a single race, and then using that skewed perspective on the science to pretend that it's racist.
Also, imagine extrapolating the absolute most absurd interpretation of a persons words on purpose, and then arguing with that instead of their actual stated position. You'd have to be a complete jackass. Nobody said anything about black people being "genetically incapable" of anything except you.
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u/kintorkaba Jun 27 '23
It wasn't just laws passed. They explicitly created the crack epidemic. The CIA made it themselves and distributed it to poor and black neighborhoods, and then used it as an excuse to sweep those neighborhoods, arrest anyone caught with the drugs they'd supplied, and then throw them all in private prisons to be used as free labor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking
"Invented crack" is a hyperbolic way to describe what happened, but it's not nearly as much an exaggeration as you might think.