[Secret Agent Man]

huh, i didn’t know they pushed for that. wonder why, if they thought blacks were using something else...?

[Joe 6-pack]

It was legislation by hysteria. During the Reagan administration blacktivists were trying to blame the proliferation ("epidemic")of crack in black communities on the CIA. IIRC, Waters and Farrakhan were the two leading proponents of this conspiracy theory. The conventional wisdom in the inner cities was that crack was being foisted on black communities by "the man," and in order to satiate their constituents they pushed the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 which set particularly draconian penalties for crack vs. those for powdered cocaine.