[ChicagoConservative27]

Bush 41's fault for crack cocaine? Who knew?

[NohSpinZone]

This again? The first crackpot theory was that the CIA trucked in crack cocaine into black neighborhood to fund counter-insurgency programs around the world.

[gundog]

Targeted by the CIA was one of the early conspiracy theories.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Donovan X. Ramsey describes Bush's press conference as a form of propaganda designed to create a panic about the crack epidemic and to "demonize drug dealers"

Terrible. Demonizing drug dealers ? Why they're just as harmless and friendly as your local neighborhood lemonade stand run by 9-year olds.

[Gen.Blather]

I’d say the reason the crack epidemic hit the black community first is because the black community is hugely invested in crime. I lived in a nice, middle-class neighborhood. Two of the black families, decent people, had taken in close relatives who had just gotten out of prison. One rapped the underage daughter of his brother. Another was caught robbing the neighbor’s houses as he didn’t have a car and it was a long walk to the next neighborhood.

I worked in a company that made a deal with the city for a “free” building if they hired off the welfare rolls, I realized practically every black there had either been in prison or had relatives currently in prison or they committed crimes and got incarcerated while working at the company. Also, several blacks were murdered by other blacks. This simply didn’t happen to the whites working there. It was an amazing view into black culture. I’d sit in my car and watch them drink malt liquor, smoke pot and crack while on break. The company stopped doing the required random drug tests on account of they were racist. None of the whites tested were caught doing drugs, but practically every black was. Since they’d only be firing blacks, they decided to stop testing. (The whites were often doing drugs too, but not so stupidly.)

[circlecity]

Because highly populated urban areas are the most efficient places to distribute large amounts of illegal drugs at the retail level. It’s about the money, not race.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Ramsey traces the advent of crack to a group of chemistry students at U.C. Berkeley who devised a recipe for freebasing cocaine using water and baking soda. The resulting substance provided a cheap, smokable way for people to get high quickly."

Better living through chemistry.

But seriously, one observes that Waco Public Radio is PROMOTING a new book. Marketing. Marketing. Marketing.

And a big graphic of the front cover of the book.

As she writes, "In his new book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of A Misunderstood Era...."

And of course, the villainous Bush I and the Reagans feature in Mosley's short article, because....

....Republicans. You know the thing.... Sniff / Cocaine / Sniff / Babies

[Tell It Right]

From the article: "For me, as a Black child growing up in the '80s and '90s, I was treated as though I was a suspect of being a "crack baby," that the ways that teachers treated me and really other Black children in my classes — mainly Black boys — was as though there was something fundamentally wrong with us that we needed to be maybe medicated to be able to be in class, or that any challenge that we presented as students, whether it was talking too much, which was my problem, or if it was not being able to sit still, that that was evidence that something was wrong with us."

I call BS on that!!! As someone who volunteered with black kids in the projects at the time, it was blacks calling each other "crack babies". Yet again it's a situation of loyal Dim voters projecting their own sins onto others. It's as insane as if Stacey Abrams accused Melania of eating too much.

[dfwgator]

Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine

Aha, so it wasn't Hunter's cocaine after all!

[blueunicorn6]

Oh…..

Let’s see…..

Where should I file this information?

Right…..

It goes in the “I Don’t Care Why Just Stop It” file.

[cnsmom]

Mayor Barry wasn’t any help

[ealgeone]

It’s around that time also that hip hop was fast becoming mainstream. Remember seeing gang graffiti is videos by white singers cause it was “hip”. MTV had “yo, mtv raps”. The Fab Five were big wearing baggies in basketball. Remember Catholics vs Convicts? Norte Dame v Miami? Rappers had long sung about drugs and violence. Thug culture was being mainstreamed. Gangs were being glorified. Toss in an addictive drug into black culture and it’s a perfect storm.

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[keving]

HIV
In 2018, African Americans/Blacks accounted for 42% of the 37,968 new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas. Of the 37,968 new HIV diagnoses in the US and dependent areas in 2018:

42% were among adult and adolescent African Americans/Blacks
31% were among African American/Black men
11% were among African American/Black women
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In 2018, in the United States, the death rate for African Americans/Blacks was higher (16.3 per 100,000) compared with any other racial/ethnic group (2.5 Whites). In 2018, African Americans/Blacks represented 43% of all deaths of people diagnosed with HIV. (Note that deaths could be from any cause.) A recent study showed that African Americans/Blacks diagnosed with HIV are less likely than other groups to be linked to care, retained in care, receive antiretroviral treatment, and achieve adequate viral suppression.

In 2018, African American/Black adult and adolescent men accounted for 39% of new HIV diagnoses among men in the United States and dependent areas. Most (79%) new HIV diagnoses among African American/Black men were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact, while 15% were attributed to heterosexual contact.

Among African American/Black adult and adolescent women in the United States and dependent areas, most (92%) new HIV diagnoses were attributed to heterosexual contact in 2018.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
Chlamydia

In 2018, the overall rate of reported chlamydia cases among Blacks in the United States was 1,192.5 cases per 100,000 population. The rate of reported chlamydia cases among Black females was five times the rate among White females (1,411.1 and 281.7 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. The rate of reported chlamydia cases among Black males was 6.8 times the rate among White males (952.3 and 140.4 cases per 100,000 population, respectively). Rates of reported cases of chlamydia were highest for Blacks aged 15–19 and 20–24 years in 2018. The rate of reported chlamydia cases among Black females aged 15–19 years (6,817.3 cases per 100,000 population) was 4.5 times the rate among White females in the same age group (1,520.1 cases per 100,000 population). The rate of reported chlamydia cases among Black females aged 20–24 years was 3.7 times the rate among White females in the same age group (7,087.7 and 1,935.8 cases per 100,000 population, respectively). Among females aged 15–24 years, the population targeted for screening, rates were highest among Blacks in all US regions.

Similar racial disparities in reported chlamydia rates exist among males. Among males aged 15–19 years, the rate of reported chlamydia cases among Blacks was 9.1 times the rate among Whites (2,668.6 and 293.0 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. The rate of reported chlamydia cases among Black males aged 20–24 years was 5.3 times the rate among White males of the same age group (3,867.1 and 732.6 cases per 100,000 population, respectively).

Gonorrhea

In 2018, the overall rate of reported gonorrhea cases among Blacks in the United States was 7.7 times the rate among Whites. This disparity was similar for Black males (8.5 times the rate among White males) and Black females (6.9 times the rate among White females). As in previous years, the disparity in gonorrhea rates for Blacks in 2018 was larger in the Midwest and Northeast than in the South and West.

Considering Hispanic ethnicity and all race and age categories, rates of reported gonorrhea cases were highest for Blacks aged 20–24, 15–19, and 25–29 years in 2018. The rate of reported gonorrhea cases among Black females aged 20–24 years (2,040.3 cases per 100,000 population) was 6.9 times the rate among White females in the same age group (297.5 cases per 100,000 population). The rate of reported gonorrhea cases among Black females aged 15–19 years (1,756.4 cases per 100,000 population) was 8.8 times the rate among White females in the same age group (200.1 cases per 100,000 population). Among Black males aged 20–24 years, the rate of reported gonorrhea cases (2,212.1 cases per 100,000 population) was 9.4 times the rate among White males in the same age group (236.3 cases per 100,000 population). The rate of reported gonorrhea cases among Black males aged 25–29 years (1,860.7 cases per 100,000 population) was 7.0 times the rate among White males in the same age group (265.5 cases per 100,000 population).

African American couple
Primary and Secondary Syphilis

In 2018, 34.7% of reported P&S syphilis cases with known race/Hispanic ethnicity information occurred among Blacks. The rate of reported P&S syphilis cases among Blacks was 4.7 times the rate among Whites (28.1 versus 6.0 cases per 100,000 population, respectively). This disparity was similar for Black females and males. Similar disparities were seen in all regions of the United States.

Congenital Syphilis

From 2014 to 2018, the rate of reported congenital syphilis increased 126.7% among Blacks (38.2 to 86.6 cases per 100,000 live births). In 2018, the rate of reported cases of congenital syphilis among Blacks was 6.4 times the rate among Whites (86.6 versus 13.5 per 100,000 live births, respectively).

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Viral Hepatitis
In 2018, there were 1,649 death certificates among US residents that listed hepatitis B as the underlying or a contributing cause of death. Of these, 304 (18.4%) were among African Americans resulting in a hepatitis B death rate of 0.7 deaths per 100,000 population.

In 2018, there were 15,713 death certificates among US residents that listed hepatitis C as the underlying or a contributing cause of death. Of these 15,713 hepatitis C related deaths, 2,978 (18.9%) were among African Americans. Thus, the 2018 hepatitis C related death rate for African Americans was 6.31 deaths per 100,000 population.

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Tuberculosis (TB)
In 2018, 87% of all reported TB cases occurred in racial and ethnic minorities. TB disease was reported in 1,799 non-Hispanic African Americans/Blacks in the United States, accounting for 20% of all people reported with TB disease nationally; this proportion is high considering non-Hispanic African Americans/Blacks make up approximately 13% of the U.S. population. While the rates of TB disease in non-Hispanic African Americans/Blacks have been cut in half (from 8.8 cases per 100,000 persons in 2008 compared to 4.4 in 2018) over the past decade, the rate of TB disease in non-Hispanic African Americans/Blacks is over eight times higher than the rate of TB disease in non-Hispanic whites (0.5 cases per 100,000 population). Overall, 9,025 TB cases were reported to CDC from the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2018.

[ansel12]

I marveled at how the media pretended that sentencing was racial between crack and powder cocaine.

They pretended to not see the difference between the receptionist with her little vial of coke, snorting it on Saturday night in a nightclub bathroom, and the terrorizing neighborhood crack house with the crack whores and guns, and pit bulls fortified behind barred windows, reinforced steel doors with peepholes and the crack users and sellers fighting deadly wars that were killing children and babies in their beds with terrible shootouts and mass shootings.

[SpaceBar]

Bush wasn’t warning about crack, he was advertising it.

[Glad2bnuts]

The colored folks like to get drunker, higher and smoke crack instead of just the snort sniff. That is all.

[ModelBreaker]

“The myth of the crack baby?????”