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coolsandy

(479 posts) Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:13 PM Oct 2017

Where was everyone when heroine, crack, cocaine were ravaging inner cities across America? [View all]

Addiction then was the result of low-life, lazy inner city families who were criminalized, abused, arrested, and killed. labeled welfare queens and cheats, and scoffed at by the three-piece business suits with white faces who perused the alleys and streets of black neighborhoods making stealth nickel, dime, and crack transactions.

Cries for addressing the drug epidemic in those places were met with scorn, broken promises, and secret plans for displacement and gentrification, no pity there, no heartfelt empathy. Oh, but the infrastructure of prisons made for many, many jobs in those states that are now being ravaged by opioids now.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

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Where was everyone when heroine, crack, cocaine were ravaging inner cities across America? [View all] coolsandy Oct 2017 OP

Then it didn't affect white upper middle class families blueinredohio Oct 2017 #1

This...exactly yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #14

We were right here ignoring it because we dont live in the inner cities, we dont have Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #2

I was around when Keith Haring did Crack is Wack Not Ruth Oct 2017 #3

Where I live ( despite being a red county ) the starbucks here give the homeless a free cup of Doreen Oct 2017 #26

I have never seen a Starbucks give free coffee to the homeless Not Ruth Oct 2017 #29

We never have those problems here. I live in a small town and as far as getting clean our Doreen Oct 2017 #33

I can't get out of my head the 2 very young pretty blond white women on the edge of Motley13 Oct 2017 #4

What are you referring to, exactly? WinkyDink Oct 2017 #28

here is the article Motley13 Oct 2017 #32

I have been saying the same thing for over a year BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #5

They were and probably still are the "users" who have moved up the economic ladder and have now coolsandy Oct 2017 #30

legal pot reduces opiate deaths questionseverything Oct 2017 #34

Its bitter sweet tulipsandroses Oct 2017 #6

Thank you for what you do...and for your incredible insight Docreed2003 Oct 2017 #17

Welcome to DU, tulipsandroses ! KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #20

Thank you both for your warm welcome tulipsandroses Oct 2017 #22

Double thank you for your service to fellow humans. Nice your are here. coolsandy Oct 2017 #31

Crack crisis involved potential Democratic voters. This opioid crisis applegrove Oct 2017 #7

Bingo! Turbineguy Oct 2017 #9

Or get into crime to support their habit and go to jail. Become a felon applegrove Oct 2017 #11

If my memory serves me right madokie Oct 2017 #8

Nailed it malaise Oct 2017 #16

they were counting their money. mopinko Oct 2017 #10

Crack was so widespread it was on the radar. JNelson6563 Oct 2017 #12

Why, they were clammoring for tougher laws and more police, of course! unblock Oct 2017 #13

who is saying anything different now? right here on DU people are calling for the exact TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #19

The media certainly isn't just blindly focused on more cops and longer sentences unblock Oct 2017 #21

They were building private prisons malaise Oct 2017 #15

the response is just as ass-backwards; more War on Drugs. it was completely counter- TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #18

that was treated as a criminal issue, not a health crisis Skittles Oct 2017 #23

Gittin' rich off drug company stocks! moondust Oct 2017 #24

My (white) family was always somewhere around the dividing line between poverty and barely making it LeftyMom Oct 2017 #25

You don't get it! Our very dirty little secret is that the US PROFITS FROM street drugs! Opioids WinkyDink Oct 2017 #27