Movement For Reparation for "The War on Drugs".........The big payback - Equity and Transformation(EAT) sign the petition.

[frankster]

 

Did the CIA Actually Sell Crack in the 1980s? | The War On Drugs

 

Come on come on
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other
"It's time to fight back," that's what Huey said
Two shots in the dark now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
Unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
But things changed, and that's the way it is

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

I see no changes all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
One better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
And only time we chill is when we kill each other
It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, uh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me what's a mother to do
Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
(I made a G today) But you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' crack to the kid (I gotta get paid
Well hey, well that's the way it is

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
What we gotta do, to survive

And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace?
It's war on the streets and the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
So the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up
Crack you up and pimp smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
My mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
And I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
Some buck that I roughed up way back
Comin' back after all these years
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is, uh

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Aww yeah

Some things will never change

 

Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists

The War on Drugs - Where to invade next

 

By Ignacio Diaz Pascual

This month marks the 50th anniversary of America’s War on Drugs, a government-mandated operation beginning in the early 1970s that has completely failed in its stated objectives of curbing drug use and ending the drug trade. To understand why, we need to take a trip through the past.

Drug use has been prevalent in American society since the mid 1880s, when

narcotics like morphine and laudanum were marketed to consumers as cure-all medications. They could be found in all types of products, ranging from asthma medications to teething syrup for infants. Opium, imported from China, was also regularly prescribed as a painkiller. Yet as the 1900s dawned, presidential administrations started to adopt a restrictive approach toward the recreational use of various drugs. For instance, the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 — which targeted Chinese immigrants — banned the importation and use of opium for smoking, while in 1914, Congress passed the Harrison Act, which taxed the production and distribution of cocaine and various opiates. Even the medical use of drugs began to be highly regulated. By 1938, more than 25,000 American doctors had been arraigned due to the illegal prescription of drugs.

In the 1960s, medicinal and recreational drug use in the United States started to become a major security issue. A rise in the countercultural movement for recreational drug use led to fears of a drug epidemic, despite surveys finding drug consumption was relatively rare: a 1969 Gallup poll found that 48 percent of respondents believed drug use was a “serious problem” in their communities, but the same survey revealed only 4 percent of American adults had tried cannabis.

Richard Nixon exploited these fears among socially conservative voters and, as a result, was elected president in 1968. His policies capitalized on public concern about high rates of drug use among American troops returning from Vietnam. Heroin use in particular was prominent. As a result, in 1970 Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act, which created five schedules within which to regulate different drugs based primarily on risk of addiction. The following year, in June 1971, Nixon officially declared a War on Drugs, telling Congress that drug addiction had become “a national emergency” and that drug abuse was now “public enemy number one.” Following this announcement, drug use officially became a criminal issue, and Nixon began proposing strict measures for drug-related crimes, including mandatory minimum sentences for both drug possession and distribution. Two years later, his administration founded the Drug Enforcement Agency, a special police force designed to target illegal drug use and smuggling in the United States.

https://civilrights.org/blog/americas-war-on-drugs-50-years-later/

 

 

Racism and the war on drugs: The story of Reefer Madness

 

 

Ethan Nadelmann: The War on Drugs is Racist | Big Think

 

 

THE CIA-CONTRA-CRACK COCAINE CONTROVERSY:
A REVIEW OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S
INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS

Chapter I: Introduction

A. The San Jose Mercury News Articles

On August 18, 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published the first installment of a three-part series of articles concerning crack cocaine, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Nicaraguan Contra army. The introduction to the first installment of the series read:

For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack" capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America . . . and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.

The three-day series of articles, entitled "Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion," told the story of a Los Angeles drug operation run by Ricky Donnell Ross, described sympathetically as "a disillusioned 19-year-old . . . who, at the dawn of the 1980s, found himself adrift on the streets of South-Central Los Angeles." The Dark Alliance series recounted how Ross began peddling small quantities of cocaine in the early 1980s and rapidly grew into one of the largest cocaine dealers in southern California until he was convicted of federal drug trafficking charges in March 1996. The series claimed that Ross' rise in the drug world was made possible by Oscar Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two individuals with ties to the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), one group comprising the Nicaraguan Contras. Blandon and Meneses reportedly sold tons of cocaine to Ross, who in turn converted it to crack and sold it in the black communities of South Central Los Angeles. Blandon and Meneses were said to have used their drug trafficking profits to help fund the Contra army's war effort

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm

[ProfD]

Drugs were dropped into Black communities on purpose. The war on drugs criminalized everybody involved in one way or another.

 

Interestingly, crystal meth and opioids are supposedly a *problem* in white communities. Yet, there is no war on them. The punishments aren't the same either.

[Delano]

On 4/21/2024 at 11:03 AM, ProfD said:

.

 

Interestingly, crystal meth and opioids are supposedly a *problem* in white communities. Yet, there is no war on them. The punishments aren't the same either.

Why do you think that is the case?

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, Delano said:

Why do you think that is the case?

There are a couple reasons but 1) white folks can never be on the bottom and 2) money.

 

Drug addiction fuels the economy in many ways just like cancer and every other incurable disease or condition.

[frankster]

On 4/20/2024 at 9:03 PM, ProfD said:

Drugs were dropped into Black communities on purpose.

And what was the Purpose...To Marginalize Criminalize Afflict/Sicken Unhinge and Destabilize etc - in short Dehumanize

 

On 4/20/2024 at 9:03 PM, ProfD said:

The war on drugs criminalized everybody involved in one way or another.

Basically the Criminalization of Black Culture....So as to Debase people with Black Skin or Making Black Skin synonymous with Criminality Illness Dysfunction and Disease.

 

On 4/20/2024 at 9:03 PM, ProfD said:

 

Interestingly, crystal meth and opioids are supposedly a *problem* in white communities. Yet, there is no war on them.

When it comes to Drug Abuse in the Black communities.....it is a Criminal Issue

In the White Communities it is a......Public Health Issue.

 

On 4/20/2024 at 9:03 PM, ProfD said:

The punishments aren't the same either.

True...so as to Malign and Destroy any Potential for Growth Success Education and Political Activity.

Great book on this subject is - Bruce Wright's Black Robes White justice.

 

On 4/21/2024 at 10:53 PM, Delano said:

Why do you think that is the case?

Racism and Political Expediency

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, frankster said:

When it comes to Drug Abuse in the Black communities.....it is a Criminal Issue

In the White Communities it is a......Public Health Issue.

Bingo.

2 hours ago, frankster said:

Racism and Political Expediency

Always in effect. 

 

Amazingly, too many Black folks either want to 1) pretend that it doesn't exist or 2) afraid and/or too lazy to fight it or 3) anesthetize themselves through escapism and gross consumerism.

[Chevdove]

On 4/19/2024 at 10:26 PM, frankster said:

Come on come on
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare . . . 

 

Oh How I remember staying up all night for hours listening to this song... 

It's one of the best compositions ever!

And, it's depressing too though.

 

On 4/22/2024 at 12:08 AM, ProfD said:

On 4/21/2024 at 10:53 PM, Delano said:

Why do you think that is the case?

There are a couple reasons but 1) white folks can never be on the bottom and 2) money.

 

Drug addiction fuels the economy in many ways just like cancer and every other incurable disease or condition.

 

So true.

 

3 hours ago, frankster said:

what was the Purpose...To Marginalize Criminalize Afflict/Sicken Unhinge and Destabilize etc - in short Dehumanize

 

3 hours ago, frankster said:

Basically the Criminalization of Black Culture....So as to Debase people with Black Skin or Making Black Skin synonymous with Criminality Illness Dysfunction and Disease.

 

3 hours ago, frankster said:

When it comes to Drug Abuse in the Black communities.....it is a Criminal Issue

In the White Communities it is a......Public Health Issue.

 

WOW! Again, so true and depressing. I remember hearing about how opiates are a health issue but back in the day, it was not deemed as such when Black people were said to have this problem. Now, even the dentist don't want to give this drug as a pain killer because of the 'health issue' it has caused amongst the White population. smh. geez. 

 

I just read an article about a Black man who was attacked by a police dog in front of his 9-year-old son in Texas.

Apparently, the police pulled him over for a routine traffic stop, but he was actually being pulled over to search for drugs. Then the police ordered his dog to attack the man even though his hands were up and he was unarmed.

His son screamed and begged the police not to kill his father. It happened last year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derrick Dunlap attacked by police dog

=================================== 

Police Dog Ordered To Attack An Unarmed Black Man In Front Of His 9-Year-Old Son

Derrick Dunlap was pulled over in Texas because the light over his license plate was too dim — and the interaction was caught on video.

 

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-police-dog-attack-black-man-during-traffic-stop_n_662972d4e4b005d7bf0c6abf?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

 

 

 

 

Footage shows an officer, identified by attorneys as Tyler Buchanan, get out of the police car and say “Here, here, here” to the dog as Dunlap’s child is heard screaming in the background.

 

 

[Delano]

Blacks have no rights that Whites have to respect.

 

After a few centuries Blacks still aren't seen as human.