In 1999, during the President Bill Clinton Impeachment trail, the CIA finally admitted that during the mid-80s they were the biggest drug dealers in American history. This is a FACT! The CIA finally admitted to pumping enormous amounts, tons upon tons of cocaine into the Los Angeles area and eventually urban cities across America. Unfortunately, Americans from coast to coast were to busy tuning their TVs in at record breaking rates that raveled that year's Superbowl, to watch the Pres talk about his extra marital affairs.
I was a first hand supporter to the "Crack the CIA Movement" lead by CA Rep. Maxine Waters (D) and many grassroots organizers, while everyone was focused in the opposite direction. The entire nation tuned-in every morning, afternoon and prime time hours to ingest the garbage of an useless impeachment trail. The entire time, we had both parties working together to pass bills, release little paid attention to statements and cover-up hundreds of other criminal instances induced by both sides of the aisle.
While crack cocaine dealing become the greatest source of economic advancement for Black & Mexican males in Urban America, which of course being the most addictive drug known on earth, these parts were just the beginning. The "War on Drugs" started by Pres. Nixon but really taking a hold on the public with Pres. Reagan, which who incidentally is the same governor that closed mental health facilities a decade earlier, These same facilities whose highest priority was treating drug addiction victims and putting all these people with severe mental health issues on to the streets. The same governor who while closing the doors on these mental health facilities, allowed the opening a couple dozen private prisons which he himself and his cohorts were fully invested in. Do you see where I am going here? Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The young men in our cities are now limited in numbers. We are limited in college, we are limited in the workforce and we are limited in the home. So today, we now have a system that does not promote our education and self-sufficiency but instead is seeking to incarcerate us by the millions.
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