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Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

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Gonad the Barbarian

Lifer
And hippies.

Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story of Harper’s about how he interviewed Ehrlichman in 1994 while working on a book about drug prohibition. Ehrlichman provided some shockingly honest insight into the motives behind the drug war. From Harper’s:

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us_56f16a0ae4b03a640a6bbda1
 
LegendKiller said:
Yeah, because democrats were all over rolling back that shit.


Ohh, wait, did I hear that Clinton doubled down on it?

Hmm...
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First, it had to start somewhere...

Speaking of that, the marijuana laws (Act of 1937) were achieved because politicians associated weed with blacks and Hispanics, which were then to make white people believe that their children were being led astray in life by the low-life non-white drug dealers.

I have an old mag from the time, Pot Art (1970 I think) that is a compilation of news articles and medical journals from the 1930's to the 1960's. For a hippy press mag, it's quite the eye opener.
 
I thought the conspiracy behind the initial anti-marijuana laws had to do with the hemp industry competing with other fabrics/papers or something like that, combined with support from the tobacco industry.

In any case, you can thank FDR's raping of the commerce clause for it all. Woohoo, authoritarianism.
 
I heard African Americans did much better after 8 years of Clintons. They want 8 more years so they can continue what they were doing in the 1990s
 
Hugo Drax said:
I heard African Americans did much better after 8 years of Clintons. They want 8 more years so they can continue what they were doing in the 1990s
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this thread is about the racist history of the war on drugs and that is your response.

why do you feel the need to express your racism?

the simple fact is the vast majority of Americans did much better under Bill Clinton.
 
alien42 said:
this thread is about the racist history of the war on drugs and that is your response.

why do you feel the need to express your racism?

the simple fact is the vast majority of Americans did much better under Bill Clinton.
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Thats what I said, African americans were much better off after 8 years of the clinton administration. Why do you think hillary is doing so much better against sanders in the elections amongst black voters. How is this racist?
 
Hugo Drax said:
Thats what I said, African americans were much better off after 8 years of the clinton administration. Why do you think hillary is doing so much better against sanders in the elections amongst black voters. How is this racist?
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the war on drugs having racist origins has no relation to your statement and you weren't responding to a post.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
Clinton is a DINO and doesn't count (but we're still voting for her because reasons).
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Clinton has a solidly liberal voting record. More liberal in fact than the majority of dems in the Senate. It's a myth that she is some sort of "DINO." That myth being perpetrated right now by Sanders' supporters.
 
Sonikku said:
Only in America would Hillary be considered "Liberal".
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That could also be true of Sanders. She has voted with him 93% of the time in the Senate, and a huge chunk of the instances where she didn't vote with him had to do with repeated filibuster votes on the same immigration bill in 2007. OTOH if Sanders is a bona-fide liberal you'd have to conclude that Clinton is at least close to being one.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm

She isn't on the right or even in the center on very many issues.
 
woolfe9998 said:
That could also be true of Sanders. She has voted with him 93% of the time in the Senate, and a huge chunk of the instances where she didn't vote with him had to do with repeated filibuster votes on the same immigration bill in 2007. OTOH if Sanders is a bona-fide liberal you'd have to conclude that Clinton is at least close to being one.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm

She isn't on the right or even in the center on very many issues.
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I would argue that Clinton is a centrist neo-liberal while Sanders is a progressive New Deal liberal. Neither are socialists, I haven't heard any talk of nationalizing any industries.
Right, left, and center in American politics is IMO a bit relative of late given how far the right has swung to the extreme, but I think that was his point.
 
The Democratic party of today would have been right of the Republican party all the way up to the Reagan admin. In fact, many of Reagan's views and policies would be ridiculed today by Republicans as leftist.

Hillary is a DINO in the areas that matter most to the middle class -- trade and business. Hillary was gung-ho for war in Iraq. Hillary has deep connections with the Banking industry. Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, signed into law GAIT, NAFTA, the WTO and a myriad of trade deals that have thrown the middle class under the bus.

As another stated, only in the USA would anyone call Hillary a liberal. The only thing that reliably separates modern R's for D's is the issues related to sexual orientation, abortion and government association with religion. Not that those are unimportant, but to the middle class family that's lost there factory jobs and is living with 50% less income they have more to worry about than whether it's OK or not to put up a Christmas display on government property.


Brian
 
Brian Stirling said:
The Democratic party of today would have been right of the Republican party all the way up to the Reagan admin. In fact, many of Reagan's views and policies would be ridiculed today by Republicans as leftist.

Hillary is a DINO in the areas that matter most to the middle class -- trade and business. Hillary was gung-ho for war in Iraq. Hillary has deep connections with the Banking industry. Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, signed into law GAIT, NAFTA, the WTO and a myriad of trade deals that have thrown the middle class under the bus.

As another stated, only in the USA would anyone call Hillary a liberal. The only thing that reliably separates modern R's for D's is the issues related to sexual orientation, abortion and government association with religion. Not that those are unimportant, but to the middle class family that's lost there factory jobs and is living with 50% less income they have more to worry about than whether it's OK or not to put up a Christmas display on government property.


Brian
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At least she always votes liberal when it comes to the social issues? :hmm:

The only time she isn't liberal is when it comes to just a couple of subjects. Little things, like wars/free trade/bailing out fat cats etc.
 
The only people to try and unwind some of this drug war madness- are Democrats.
Notice the medical marijuana and legal marijuana in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Red states not so much.
But Republicans and Democrats are all the same, right?
 
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