When Crack Was King

“I was not able to find a direct conspiracy of white guys in a back room saying, let’s destroy the Black community. It was actually more insidious, which is that conspiracy happened hundreds of years ago, that Black people were positioned in American society from very early on to be the Americans closest to harm. When any disaster happens, whether it’s Hurricane Katrina or Covid or crack, we are hit first and we are hit worst.”

When Crack Was King: looking back on an epidemic that destroyed lives (The Guardian)

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[ed. As concise a summation of black struggles as any.]