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“The Nixon administration did not require evidence that drug use was linked to rising crime, however. And it did not need to prove to the American public that doped-up Blacks were responsible for that crime. It had two facts: drug use was up, and so was violent crime in big cities. Americans would fill in the blank, using the same brutal imagination they always had to rationalize a war on drugs targeting Black Americans.”

Donovan X. Ramsey, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
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