“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 people, 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.”
Well obviously. It was after the Civil Rights Act so they needed another way to segregate and discriminate blacks. Institutional racism was the way to go.
i would normally call this BS, but the amount of reputable sources reporting on it is pretty damning evidence. honestly, nixon is a terrible person (at least from what i know of him), much worse than either of the bushes (as much as i dislike them), so i guess we're lucky in a sense
