I don't know enough about the original problems - why crack cocaine hit black people, how much racism was a motivation for the laws passed to try to supposedly protect black communities. It seems like there's a good chance this was a significant incentive.
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I don't think the perceived widespread racism in the US comes from white people being inherently racist; I think it's likely an amplified relationship to the difficulties caused by a specific set of (maybe racist?) policies a few decades ago.
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After slavery, black populations were segregated and criminalized to make it easier for them to end up in jail, where slavery is still legal. This has kept happening in different forms ever since.
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but according to the data i've seen (again, link me other data if you have it), it seems like black incarceration wasn't actually a severe problem until the 1990s, where it suddenly skyrocketed.
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idk about you but I saw a lot of intense hatred for the white addicts too.
But regardless I agree with you; the current system of incarceration is awful, and particularly awful for black communities and we should fix it.