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Crime And The War On Drugs
Even when it comes to the War on Drugs, I still find that the New Jim Crow analogy leaves much to be desired. Alexander’s text instills the widespread belief that the War on Drugs is purely the invention of racist white politicians into readers saying, “The drug war was motivated by racial politics, not drug crime” (Alexander). However, in the 1960s and intro the 1970s, residents of black neighborhoods in New York felt constantly threatened by those associated with the drug trade. Vanessa Barker’s 2006 article states, “many African Americans, the social group most adversely affected by crime and the drug trade, supported Rockefeller’s anti-drug efforts. Since the late1960s, many black activists pushed the state to take a tougher stand against
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