Cocaine - Devastation of Communities of Color
From The 13TH
22:03 - 25:35
3m 32s
Former President Ronald Reagan criminalizes economic inequality, drug abuse and hypersegregation in America in the form of "waging war on drugs". Mass amounts of African American's and people of color gain large sentences during the crack epidemic.
This clip contains profanity at the following moments: 22:08 - 22:12 , 22:12 - 22:15 , 22:38 - 22:42 , 22:42 - 22:45 , 22:54 - 22:57 , 22:57 - 23:02 , 23:01 - 23:04 , 23:15 - 23:16 , 23:22 - 23:24 , 24:21 - 24:24 , 24:33 - 24:37

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