The media campaign was an extraordinary success. Almost overnight, the media was saturated with images of black “crack whores,” “crack dealers,” and “crack babies”—images that seemed to confi rm the worst negative racial stereotypes about impoverished inner-city residents.
Majority of the people that do crack today are WHITE!
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minori-ties. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.
THIS! VERY POWERFUL. Immigrants often think that america is the land of free and dream but in reality, there are too many people of color are the main targets for imprisonment.
“There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African American community. Though diffi cult to accept, that is the concept of genocide.”
Very relatable to what's happening right now in China and many other countries. It's very sad to see that people are being mistreated just because of the color of their skin, ethnicity and/or nationality.
The media bonanza surrounding the “new demon drug” helped to catapult the War on Drugs from an ambitious federal policy to an actual war
This shows how the media portrays racism even till this day.