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BlueVeins · 22-25
Money, race, and power -- the stuff was historically associated with Mexican immigrants and hippies. Banning drugs was a good excuse to arrest brown people and political dissidents.
Glad your mother is feeling ok, can't imagine how that must feel. ❤️
Glad your mother is feeling ok, can't imagine how that must feel. ❤️
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Slade [quote]You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? 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.[/quote]
- John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
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.[/quote]
- John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon