Nixon Aide Admits War On Drugs Targeted Black People

[Asclepias]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

 

[ScienceRocks]

The war on drugs is the true government over step and loserterians support the damn thing.

 

[Asclepias]

It wasnt an overstep. It was a coordinated attack on the Black community designed to maintain control lost in Civil Rights legislation spanning decades.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

 

[Asclepias]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

 

[Katzndogz]

Who held all those black people down and stuffed drugs into them.

 

[Asclepias]

Who held all those black people down and stuffed drugs into them.

The same people that held down whites but chose not to portray them in the media as dangerous druggies and drug dealers or prosecute them for being involved in drugs..

 

[SassyIrishLass]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

Ya think? LMAO Your article said they targeted hippies as well as blacks...duh

 

[Asclepias]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

Ya think? LMAO Your article said they targeted hippies as well as blacks...duh

Hippies can stop being hippies. You cant stop being Black. (Not that you would want to stop being Black)

 

[tyroneweaver]

It wasnt an overstep. It was a coordinated attack on the Black community designed to maintain control lost in Civil Rights legislation spanning decades.

Sorta like LBJ and the fbi or Black Panther groups and Stokey Carmichael.
Or Robert Kennedy's wiretapping of Martin Luther King.

 

[WillowTree]

Did you know that the interstate highway system targeted blacks too?

 

[whitehall]

Let me get this straight, a recollection of a 1994 interview with a Nixon staffer about an alleged drug policy in 1968 is classified as "current events"? You almost gotta laugh that Bill Clinton dug up ...gasp..."New Nixon Tapes" when he was caught with his pants down in the Oval Office. You can always tell when libs are plumb out of ideas and agenda when they dig up poor old Tricky Dick.

 

[Rustic]

The war on drugs is the true government over step and loserterians support the damn thing.

That is the federal governments purpose... Allows overstepping

 

[Asclepias]

Did you know that the interstate highway system targeted blacks too?

Did someone admit the interstate highway system was created to target Blacks or are you talking about the feral cops that use the interstate highway system to target Blacks?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

Ya think? LMAO Your article said they targeted hippies as well as blacks...duh

Hippies can stop being hippies. You cant stop being Black. (Not that you would want to stop being Black)

You're sort of stupid and obviously not capable of grasping what I am saying....here...BOTH blacks and whites were targeted

 

[Asclepias]

Let me get this straight, a recollection of a 1994 interview with a Nixon staffer about an alleged drug policy in 1968 is classified as "current events"? You almost gotta laugh that Bill Clinton dug up ...gasp..."New Nixon Tapes" when he was caught with his pants down in the Oval Office. You can always tell when libs are plumb out of ideas and agenda when they dig up poor old Tricky Dick.

Well you missed the part where this guy was an important cog in Nixons administration and the admission was recently published..

 

[Asclepias]

John Ehrlichman admits what Black communities have long been aware of. Reagan put more teeth to this war on drugs and Bill Clinton capped it off by introducing even more harsh legislation.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

Ya think? LMAO Your article said they targeted hippies as well as blacks...duh

Hippies can stop being hippies. You cant stop being Black. (Not that you would want to stop being Black)

You're sort of stupid and obviously not capable of grasping what I am saying....here...BOTH blacks and whites were targeted

No dummy. Hippies and Blacks were targeted. Not all whites are hippies nor were all hippies white, but all Blacks are Black.

 

[Rustic]

Most hippies were white...duh

All Black people are Black...duh.

Ya think? LMAO Your article said they targeted hippies as well as blacks...duh

Hippies can stop being hippies. You cant stop being Black. (Not that you would want to stop being Black)

You're sort of stupid and obviously not capable of grasping what I am saying....here...BOTH blacks and whites were targeted

No dumy. Hippies and Blacks were targeted. Not all whites are hippies but all Blacks are Black.

Never trust the federal government...

 

[WillowTree]

Did you know that the interstate highway system targeted blacks too?

Did someone admit the interstate highway system was created to target Blacks or are you talking about the feral cops that use the interstate highway system to target Blacks?

Which case scenario does your pre Jurassic brain think is true?

 

[boedicca]

John Ehrlichman died in 1999. Anybody can make up shit about him because he isn't here to defend himself.

And Nixon didn't start the Great Society programs that were designed to keep black in apartheid-like urban plantation ghettoes.

Just sayin'.