Quote from Nixon aide John Ehrlichman about the Drug War: “You want to know what this was really all about? 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? 1/3
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“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, 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. 2/3
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“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.” 3/3

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#killthemasters
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Yeah well....just you wait.
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and this is still going on in one way or another
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Sounds like the Democrat party in 2022
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I’m not really a Nixon fan but is this possibly him bullshitting a tiny bit? Was Nixon really so pro war or so racist in policy, in reality?
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So… Trump is worse than this how?
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We also knew all the white man diseases would kill Native Americans. They referred to themselves as the most viral species to ever exist. And now you see the disease we endure by their capture.