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Surprised, yet not surprising! the New york times 1914 WOW

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so if i understand this correctly the writer decided to make up the idea that these individuals were basically bullet proof and dangerous because of the drug... then goes back to use the word any "sane man"? is the writer taking shots at the race or the drug, obviously both in the article...

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lies continuously being fed to the media, what's new? oh and but of course this gave this justification to lynch another human being.

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Unfortunately being a minority in still makes you a target, i really wonder if that will ever change, i'm not talking about the past because obviously that can't change but in terms of the future, even if it may take a few 100 generations, i hope not that many.

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Harrison Narcotics Tax Act- sought to tax and regulate the production, importation , and distribution of opium and coca products

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by 1914 the laws proponents had found a convenient scapegoat which went back onto the idea of the dangerous cocaine fiend (they do attach this to a racial slur)

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Apparently the "experts" testified that most of the attacks upon white women of the south were a direct result from the "Cocaine-crazed (racial slur) brain". first of all- no surprise there.

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although the act didn't explicitly prohibit the use of opiates of cocaine, enforcement of the new law became increasingly punitive (this happened quickly)

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white powder cocaine was seen as a luxury to whites meanwhile crack was portrayed as dangerous and highly addictive and was heavily associated with african americans.

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of course in more current time racism can't just be openly spewed rather the media decided to replace the racism and use terms to describe those who would most likely be using drugs, they used terms like "ghettos", "poor" - to the media- these the types of terms  they stick to undesired communities which in this case would be blacks or "others"

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fast-forward to 1987 a new article emerges about a new violence seen in users of cocaine, the message that could be derived from this article would be that crack makes poor people of color violent and crazy

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and entire specialty police units deployed to "troubled neighborhoods"- in other words they were sent out to handpicked neighborhoods in order to harass and target minorities- nothing's changed

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congress passed the infamous anti-drug abuse act - making penalties 100 times harsher for crack rather than powder. 85 % of those with the sentence were black even with knowing that the majority of the users were white.

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it took until 2010 to reduce the sentencing between crack and powder.

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black men are no longer lynched for violating drug laws (that we know) but they are still killed.

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overall i'm not surprised, it's just really scary learning about this kind of history, especially knowing that nothing hasn't changed besides the way people (may) hide their racism, including the media.