Crack Is Not Just Real in the Suck First

In 1986, the U.S. Congress passed laws that created a 100 to one sentencing disparity for the possession or trafficking of crack when compared to penalties for powder cocaine. This move widely criticizes being blatantly discriminatory against African Americans and other racial minorities who were much more likely to use crack than powder cocaine. In 1989, Washington Post article reports that L.A. gangs moved out of the city as far away as Baltimore. They recruited new members, sold drugs across the nation. The crack epidemic combined with these sentencing laws gutted South Central and surrounding black communities. More and more young black men are going to jail for nonviolent crime for selling or using crack,. leaving more and more families without fathers

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