"They also believe drugs are sold to black people to keep them quiet and passive."
Dark Alliance
San Jose Mercury News
Exposes CIA Complicity In Crack Epidemic
Day One: America's 'crack' plague has roots in nicaragua war
Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early '80s to help finance war -- and a plague was born. Published: Aug. 18, 1996
Day Two: Shadowy origins of 'crack' epidemic
Role of CIA-linked agents a well-protected secret until now How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager created the cocaine pipeline, and how crack was "born" in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974. Published: Aug. 19, 1996
Day Three: War on drugs has unequal impact on black americans
Contra case illustrates the discrepancy: Nicaraguan goes free; L.A. dealer faces life The impact of the crack epidemic on the black community and why justice hasn't been for all. Published: Aug. 20, 1996
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The ghetto profits from the crack went into automatic weapons, gang fights, and dead bystanders.
Then, too, the drug laws are set up to provide harsher punishment for blacks; the penalty for the white folks' drug, coke, are much less severe than that of the poor, usually minoruity folks, crack. |
