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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by gruez on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:47AM (#33122926)
>“You want to know what this [war on drugs] 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?

That's a very popular quote, but it's not as slam dunk as you think. The veracity of the quote has been challenged. It was allegedly obtained 26 years after the nixon campaign, and was only published 22 years after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote

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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by tchaffee on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:06PM (#33124893)
> The veracity of the quote has been challenged.

The outcomes however are a matter of historical record. Jails filled to the brim with black people. Even though white people deal drugs and use drugs at a higher rate than black people. You don't even need that quote to see what Nixon quickly "achieved".

And we also know Nixon was a racist. That's on tape. Referring to Jamaica:

“Blacks can’t run it. Nowhere, and they won’t be able to for a hundred years, and maybe not for a thousand ... Do you know, maybe one black country that’s well run?”

-- Richard Nixon

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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by DonHopkins on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:53PM (#33125427)
Well obviously Nixon's motivation for the drug ware were't purely about race. It was about hippies too! ;)

Q: How many police officers does it take to kick a hippie down stairwell?

A: None, he just fell!

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