Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
So I just ran across a Netflix documentary called "Crack: Cocaine, Corruption and Conspiracy"
Looking only at the preview you get by hovering over it, a man says that "when crack came along, it changed everything about the black community, and America."
I'm sure that is hyperbole, but I remember the stories in the eighties of people trying it, becoming quickly addicted, and then selling everything they owned in a few days, then turning to theft, prostitution and homelessness in their quest for the drug. The news especially liked to runs such stories with a white college girls as the instantly addicted victim.
Were they true? Urban legends? I'm sure it happened to some people. I'm guessing that rapid gambling addictions can happen also, but very rarely.
But did crack wreak that kind of havoc on a large enough percent of the black community to make a significant change for the worst at a time when they were finally recognized as fully equal and were rising socially and economically?
If so, is that white people's fault? No doubt that if the market was flooded with crack, it was high level drug dealers who flooded it. Were they white businessmen? Italian gangsters? Yakuza? Russians or other East European immigrants?
Or could it have been a primarily black operation from start to finish, production, distribution and retail marketing all by black entrepreneurs? I don't know the answers. I'm asking for opinions and fact.
I'll let you know what the documentary says, I just wanted to see what the perception is among posters on here.
Looking only at the preview you get by hovering over it, a man says that "when crack came along, it changed everything about the black community, and America."
I'm sure that is hyperbole, but I remember the stories in the eighties of people trying it, becoming quickly addicted, and then selling everything they owned in a few days, then turning to theft, prostitution and homelessness in their quest for the drug. The news especially liked to runs such stories with a white college girls as the instantly addicted victim.
Were they true? Urban legends? I'm sure it happened to some people. I'm guessing that rapid gambling addictions can happen also, but very rarely.
But did crack wreak that kind of havoc on a large enough percent of the black community to make a significant change for the worst at a time when they were finally recognized as fully equal and were rising socially and economically?
If so, is that white people's fault? No doubt that if the market was flooded with crack, it was high level drug dealers who flooded it. Were they white businessmen? Italian gangsters? Yakuza? Russians or other East European immigrants?
Or could it have been a primarily black operation from start to finish, production, distribution and retail marketing all by black entrepreneurs? I don't know the answers. I'm asking for opinions and fact.
I'll let you know what the documentary says, I just wanted to see what the perception is among posters on here.