The New Jim Crow

[Berzerker]

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon

At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. "You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "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."

I didn't know one of Nixon's partners in crime had already admitted to the lie but I never thought it was a coincidence Nixon declared war on people who opposed his political agenda

At what point does policy become treason? I think Nixon and his cronies crossed that line...

 

[ls612]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Vox is basically saying that a guy is saying that another guy who was in the Nixon Administration said this to him in 1994 and he is just publishing it now?

 

[Lexicus]

Nixon is known to have engaged in treason by stalling negotiations with the North Vietnamese in 1968.

The thing in the OP is pretty much obvious and has been for some time, whether it was a conscious strategy on Nixon's part or not.

 

[warpus]

Vox is owned by Gawker, the site that specializes in clickbait bullcrap & nonsense, so I would take all this with a grain of the largest piece of salt that's ever existed.

 

[ls612]

Vox is owned by Gawker, the site that specializes in clickbait bullcrap & nonsense, so I would take all this with a grain of the largest piece of salt that's ever existed.

Wait, does this mean that Vox could go under soon too?

 

[warpus]

Oh wait, I'm way wrong about that.

All those sites seem the same to me, Vox, Gawker, Buzzfeed, Jezebel, etc. clickbait for the masses, no actual journalism anywhere

 

[Cutlass]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Vox is basically saying that a guy is saying that another guy who was in the Nixon Administration said this to him in 1994 and he is just publishing it now?

It's actually been public knowledge for decades. But usually gets a collective yawn, and then people forget about it again.

 

[Commodore]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Vox is basically saying that a guy is saying that another guy who was in the Nixon Administration said this to him in 1994 and he is just publishing it now?

Not to mention Vox is, in no way, a credible source. Vox is basically just an editorial site where people spout their opinions with no obligation to actually fact check what they write.

 

[jackelgull]

Not to mention Vox is, in no way, a credible source. Vox is basically just an editorial site where people spout their opinions with no obligation to actually fact check what they write.

This has actually be corroborated on more credible sites (like the Huffington Post)

Take that as you will.

 

[Commodore]

This has actually be corroborated on more credible sites (like the Huffington Post)

Take that as you will.

The Huffington Post is better, although it's still a bit too partisan for my tastes.

With that said, multi-source reporting does tend to lend an air of credibility to a story.

 

[Kennigit]

10 Grains of Salt You Can't Believe Are So Large -- Wait Until You See #1

 

[wabatt]

Vox is owned by Gawker, the site that specializes in clickbait bullcrap & nonsense, so I would take all this with a grain of the largest piece of salt that's ever existed.

Here you go.

 

[warpus]

I was wrong about what I said it seems, so that giant grain of salt seems most appropriate

 

[sophie]

#NotAllGawkerMedia