Breh on twitter is posting news clips from the 80's crack era

[truth2you]

still can’t believe how they were able to repair the Bronx. All though I’m sure many of those trash filled lots are row homes now.

meanwhile other cities still look stuck in the crack era

You can think the stock market for that, and Giuliani, and Bloomberg, even though both of them made NYC even more divided between rich & poor

Some don't no mind struggling, as long as they can see a pretty city.

NYC is so weird because you easily forget how so many are broke because it's hidden now. At least back then people couldn't lie to themselves, looked where they lived.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You can think the stock market for that, and Bloomberg, even though both of them made NYC even more divided between rich & poor

Some don't no mind struggling, as long as they can see a pretty city.

NYC is so weird because you easily forget how so many are broke because it's hidden now. At least back then people couldn't lie to themselves, looked where they lived.

My realtor friend from DC did say The Bronx doesn’t look poor to her but I’m still convinced she was probably in the North Bronx

 

[truth2you]

My realtor friend from DC did say The Bronx doesn’t look poor to her but I’m still convinced she was probably in the North Bronx

 

[3rdWorld]

That's exactly what Pam Grier did in Coffy







Pam







But nah, on a serious note, I remember my mama telling me she knew so many people whose moms were dopeheads growing up. And this is in South Carolina, the deep south. It's so messed up

They had no real idea what they were getting themselves into.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

White dude in the Knicks shirt understood the game way back then.

Which vid???

 

[jmspro]

Which vid???

2nd video

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Couldn't find a good quality video of the routine, but this is Richard Pryor's Live at the Sunset Strip from 1981.....​

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[GhettoTeK]

shyt was rough back then. I used to see folks walking down the street with microwaves and TVs in shopping carts, burnt spoons in hallways. My aunts and uncles would dissapear for days and leave my cousins at my house just to get high.

The violence from the drugs didn't really hit me until I was 8 or when these guys shot up the corner shoot I was buying my sandwich from. This guy that used to give me money for going to the store and getting good grade got hit in the face. Then like 3 months later he got arrested for a murder.

Teenage years was the worst because the gang violence increased that's when most of my friends were getting killed.

But now its phasing out, most of the fiends died years ago. You barely see crackheads. It's the opioid addicts now. Young kids like 17 and 18 popping percs. shyt is crazy.

Damn dude

 

[2stainz]

 

[Rell84shots]

It's truly amazing we was bot totally eradicated by the crack era


I was a super young kid in Brooklyn close to east New York home of the 77th precinct (look it up)


I seen some things but was also shielded from alot


Wow looking at this and looking back



It's amazing how they want us to have compassion for the cacs on opioids

 

[truth2you]

Couldn't find a good quality video of the routine, but this is Richard Pryor's Live at the Sunset Strip from 1981.....​

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We need more comedians like Richard, today, everything he said is so real!

I hate to say it, but weed is the new crack. Obviously not as severe, but I've seen people act just like he described. I don't blame weed though, I blame society for pushing excess. They took the very thing that helped people get off hard drugs(I seen it with my own eyes) and turned it into a get rich quick thing which is making weed addicts.

People are so sad, sometimes

 

[Surreal]

The good and the bad. America was never the same after the 84 Olympics. By that winter, freebasing was popping. By winter 85 crack was starting to hit. Early 86, coke was everywhere. 84-86 were the coldest winters ever. Supreme brick outside. Summers were mo-pads and scooters. Candy Houses were the first traps. Being 9/10 years old being protege to the Candy House man/drug dealer garnered me $50 a week and hood love. My parents shut that hustle down tho. Now 87-94 were violent times. That's when the heat came in....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

This is why I always to people who bring up 90's crime bills as a knock on liberal politicians who voted and supported them.

Breh, nikkas were off the hook in the '80s/early 90s. Drugs and violence was out of control.

I lived through that. I remember "Just say no". Its why when 20 somethings start saying this or that about a crime bill I ignore them because they don't understand what led to people of all backgrounds supporting it.

Miss me with this shyt.... Crime was bad but was actually on the decline in 94.... there was a lot of propaganda going on and the crime bill coupled with Reagan's anti drug abuse act had a lot of non violent cats doing 5 to 7 years over a few ounces of dope..... on top of that.. .it was a lot of provisions that the CBC had added to that act that was conveniently left out when it finally passed....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

And how exactly would you have fixed it?

The 94 crime bill definitely didn't fix shyt....

 

[BantuKnotz99]

I was born in 89..can some with vast knowledge in this topic explain this to me. Was the crime bill supported by black ppl mostly, and was the crime bill in fact a good thing?