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Crack VS Powered Cocain

Powder cocaine has been a part of our history for centuries. For most of these centuries selling and buying powder cocaine, although not legal, was not considered a major societal problem. Today, because of newspapers, and television the public has not only been made aware of the problems with illegal drugs but has also been made to believe that certain drugs are a Black problem and some drugs are a White problem. As a result of this orgy of media and political attention that catalyzed the war on drugs in the mid-1980s, when smokable powder cocaine in the form of crack spread throughout low income minority neighborhoods, blacks were seen as dangerous and threatening. This is true even though far more whites than blacks, both then and now use both powder cocaine and crack cocaine. The image of the drug offender that has dominated media stories is a black man slouching in an alleyway, not a white man in his home.
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