Chief architect? After the damage conservative reefer madness and Reagan’s campaign had…? I don’t know about that.
To Biden’s credit he repaired his relationship with the black community in the years since.
As if conservative Republicans weren’t controlling the national narrative on this in the first place, akin to Bush going, “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists”
In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman [Nixon’s domestic policy chief] said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:
“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? 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. 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.”
Chief architect? After the damage conservative reefer madness and Reagan’s campaign had…? I don’t know about that.
To Biden’s credit he repaired his relationship with the black community in the years since.
As if conservative Republicans weren’t controlling the national narrative on this in the first place, akin to Bush going, “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists”
Not to mention that Nixon was the one who started the whole thing so he would have a tool to use to harass and arrest blacks and hippies.