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00:00In the 80s, there was a lifestyle of celebration and coke was part of that lifestyle. It was the glitzy drug
00:07When crack came along they change everything about the black community and it changed everything about America
00:17It was like the gold rush there's people coming from all over to buy this wonder drug the drug so powerful
00:24It will make you sell the clothes off your back
00:27The reporting played right into all of these stereotypes in this narrative
00:36We must be intolerant of drug use and drug sellers
00:40You got a war on drugs. Is it not a war on the people that are supplying the drugs?
00:45Or is it only a war on the victims of the drug war?
00:49Just
00:53Say no, it felt extraordinarily hypocritical
00:58This was happening at a time when the US government was turning a blind eye to cocaine smuggling
01:08Our goal was to defeat communism in Central America
01:12And if that meant drugs got in and the youth of America use them. Well, that was the way it was gonna be
01:20We knew that they were in on it we knew that they were dealing on the side
01:25What would you steal money and drugs and guns whatever was it
01:33That was kind of like chemical warfare on black communities
01:45It's a story that has to be told
01:49You