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

[Lucky_Lefty]

She was caught up in the Crackture.

 

[Micky Mikey]

The crack era did incomprehensible damage to the black community. A lot of the negative elements within our community can be traced to the crack epidemic. People have understand that it didnt just effect fiends and a few people who lived around it. It had consequential effects on our community as a whole. It took the wind out of us as a people and we are still trying peice together what happened. I fight back tears just thinking about it as a whole.
Things were bad before crack of course. You still had the heroin epidemic, street gangs, and widespread poverty. But crack introduced a whole element of decadence and despair.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

If you all can get a hold of this full documentary I highly recommend watching it:

 

[newworldafro]

Absolutely, I always tell people on and offline that in the 80's and 90's you got the entire wellspring of the black experience

I will say though, that this world didn't really become commonly known until hip hop exposed it

All the way in the south, i'd have never seen these news reports and articles in JET magazine didn't really paint the full picture

True.

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[Swirv]

Sad thing is 30, 40 years later, the same neighborhoods and cities that were under siege are now being gentrified. Same hell holds that were being looked down on at the time by the same middle, upper class folks in their suburbs are now populated with their offspring thinking they're cool living in those same spots. Some of these folks moving into these spots literally mocking that shyt. It's cool for them to emulate the struggle without being in it because they can move back to the burbs when they feel like it. shyt is sickening. Those areas are haunted. Imagine if those psychics performed mediums and the energies they'd feel from all those that died in those areas and we talking about hundreds and thousands of murder victims because of crack and the drug trade. Folks wanna move in to be around that type of haunted energy? That shyt never goes away. shyt never feels right.


Also shows you how the government works. They create those conditions and used that shyt to war with the people. How many black people done got locked up. Crime bills of 1988, mandatory minimums, school zone laws, and etc etc. 40 years later, yall see the opioid shyt.

I remember seeing a young man’s body laid out in the park before any emergency service came. I was 6 years old. Late 80’s were a hazy time.

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[The G.O.D II]

This is why I when people say that times are wild now. Don’t get me wrong it’s some shyt out here but nothing compares to the 80s/early 90s. Shorties as young as 9 were on the corner, bussin guns, etc. Dope heads everywhere. Garbage repugnantican driven economy. Families irreversibly destroyed. That’s why shyt like the crime bill and Guilliani came along. And we also didn’t have well off families and resources like drug rehabs like the cacs and their “opioid” epidemic now. We just had Nancy(while her demented husband were cutting deals with “capitalist” in Latin America that flooded our streets with product) saying no and one music video

 

[QU Hectic]

Anita didn’t, but these cats did

I don’t think that song was about drugs though. I think it was more about pum pum than nose candy.

 

[The G.O.D II]

She was caught up in the Crackture.

Your humor is Gallagher levels bad

 

[Edub]

The Reagan Era

 

[Doobie Doo]

Your humor is Gallagher levels bad

I am so funny on the Coli that nikkas got to call out my unfunny shyt because me NOT being funny is more noteworthy.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I don’t think that song was about drugs though. I think it was more about pum pum than nose candy.

It was about both. Like how D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar” was about both weed and a woman. Cameo was a bit more subtle with it though

 

[Hater Eraser]

This is the era in Oakland that Ryan Coogler depicted in Black Panther ..