“Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
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Nixons southern strategy to stop as many black men from voting as possible. In some southern states you can be prevented from voting with just a misdemeanor drug charge. Why do you think black people hate republicans and hispanics are learning to hate them too!