
Crack Babies
You're Wrong About
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The Effects of the Law on Expectant Mothers of Color
The crack epidemic disproportionately affected mothers of color. White women and women of color used drugs to exactly the same extent everybody likes drugs you know there are some people who don't do them but if we're especially for talking about an addictive substance it's not something that is gonna affect you differently physiologically based on race regardless of however much various conservative pundits would like to believe that that's not true. This leads then to additional material for incarcerating women of color because then they are seen as someone who's potentially through your own selfishness right giving way to this epidemic of super predator in human crack babies, he says.
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