Reaction of "New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander:
Reagan announced the drug war in 1982 and crack began to spread rapidly through the black neighborhoods. Some may ask--why? How is it that Reagan could so easily publicize black "crack whores" and "crack dealers"? The CIA formally admitted that crack drugs were being smuggled into the black neighborhoods by Nicaragua, the guerrilla armies that the US was supporting at the time The CIA also admitted that during the War on Drug, they blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were funding Nicaragua (Alexander 8).
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