Molson Hart

It's possible that racism is a factor, but crack is more addictive than cocaine, therefore, if you want to deter it, you need harsher sentences. Also, the laws were passed during an epidemic of crime caused by crack dealing - you want to deter crime regardless of skin color.

Send me a link please - ideally wikipedia. Does this work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking …

The CIA selling, indirectly or somewhat directly, crack cocaine into black neighborhoods is believable to me. There's a long history of our government doing really shady shit to sell guns, make profit, and topple foreign governments and this fits the bill.

That said, at worst, I think the gov't didn't care because it was poor black communities, mostly being affected. I still don't think that the USG had some sort of master plan to sabotage black communities by introducing crack cocaine into them.

I think that people care more about themselves than they do about racism or racial purity and stuff like that. Take slavery for example. Obviously, it was totally morally reprehensible, but it was more about rich landowners wanting to make money than oppressing black people.