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

[truth2you]

This won't be a popular opinion, but the Crime Bill saved more people than it harmed. If you survived the 80's like some of us did, you'd understand.

Did it go overboard? Absolutely.

At that time, it was NOTHING to see whole families/neighborhoods destroyed by predators allowed to roam freely preying on their own people because law enforcement was understaffed, underarmed, and undertrained to deal with what was going on. Gangs, dealers, and straight criminals ran the streets, the businesses, and in many places, the local government.​

There are people from my childhood/teens that I am glad will NEVER be free.​

And we now know a lot of that came from high lead in those areas, and they knew this but failed to fix it.

It's still happening. All the cities with high crime have lead all in the water, but instead of focusing on fixing it, it's about prison. We know why

The problem is black people expect others to fix shyt, and we just hope they do it. Why in 2020 are we still dealing with lead in our water? shyt is ridiculous

 

[Wildhundreds]

When you say "the government" did all these things, who specifically are you talking about?

You know of a Oliver North?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I bet the nikkas who supported that crime bill never imagined the 1000s of false arrests that would follow..

There were tens of thousands of predators put away for good, but I guess that fact doesn't match your narrative. I'm talking about people who'd break into a senior citizen's home, beat them up, rape them repeatedly, then set the house on fire to hide the evidence and get rid of the witness.

That was a dude I went to junior high school with named Robin Patterson.

I got more stories just like that.​

 

[truth2you]

Easy to do? Are you fukking high? Do you have any experience in law enforcement or any expertise in this at all? Do you know how difficult it is to prevent crime in a country as large as ours? Not to mention prevent or stop criminals abroad?




This is just wrong and teetering on conspiratorial speech. The government alone wasn't bringing in drugs like cocaine into the country. You had fool-blown cartels from around the world trying to figure out ways to get drugs into the US.



I don't argue against this, but again, investments like these DID happen in the 90s, and it was largely due to liberals who get hounded for these policies today.



I won't argue this either. The general consensus felt much differently about the "cocaine cowboy" era as they do about the meth problems today. But that is due largely, I think, in the drastically reduced amount of violent crimes we're seeing now compared to the 80's and 90's directly derived from drugs.

My man, have you been in the streets. The difference between a street guy, and a cop, is the badge. Any street person knows where to get guns, you think police don't, and they have informants all over the place? Please stop watching tv!

My man, the government was working with the cartels. You think they brought tons of bricks from a nikka down the street. Didn't you hear Rick Ross's story? Do you even remember the Iran contra story. I remember the whole shyt, and it was a cia agent who told everything at a south central townhall meeting in 1996

And those "investments" were not from the government as much as nonprofits. Do you not understand how rich America is? Why are nonprofits doing their job?

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Crack was known as Free Base, Base Rocks or Hubba Rocks in the 80's

So that's where the term basehead came from.

 

[ISO]

crack was worse because it touched way more people than heroin did.
I mean everyone was either selling or using crack

I feel like in certain cities even during the crack epidemic heron was still king (New Orleans, Baltimore, Buffalo) just off top.

The needle is worse than the pipe as well.

 

[Wildhundreds]

There were tens of thousands of predators put away for good, but I guess that fact doesn't match your narrative. I'm talking about people who'd break into a senior citizen's home, beat them up, rape them repeatedly, then set the house on fire to hide the evidence and get rid of the witness.

That was a dude I went to junior high school with named Robin Patterson.

I got more stories just like that.​

Im good with anyone who tells the entire story..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

And we now know a lot of that came from high lead in those areas, and they knew this but failed to fix it.

There was no high lead where I lived and the crime was just as bad, if not worse, than the high lead areas. Most of the areas hardest hit didn't have that issue, either.​

 

[NoMayo15]

Yes you can, their job is to come up with solutions that protect, and repair, what's broken, not make it worse

If what you say is true, why weren't whites being locked up in large numbers for decades from drugs? The heroin, and meth epidemic has been happening since the late 90's, ealry 2000's but black men have been getting locked even more since then. Not for violence, for drugs, that is why the crime bill is considered a joke

So yes, those politicians new what they were doing. You mean they could lock us up because black people wanted it, even though it costs them around $25000 a head, but when we say we want reparations, they can't do it? nikka please

When common people are being held hostage by their own kind, they'll do anything for some relief..

Even if its at the destruction of their own kind..

I bet the nikkas who supported that crime bill never imagined the 1000s of false arrests that would follow..

Now the same people who supported the crime bill now support prison reform..

These white people got us running in circles and loving every moment of it..

But brehs, it hasn't gotten demonstrably worse. Black people aren't destroyed. Violent crimes in our community is much lower than it was 30 years ago... drug addiction, the same.

It is unfortunate that some were locked up for merely getting high or possessing small amounts of weed or something. That was probably an over-correction that wasn't accounted for. But the problem still needed to be addressed, and if we can use life now as evidence for how effective those policies were, then I'd say it wasn't all bad. It's sort of like #MeToo.... sure it's fukked up when people lump in those who make off-color or sexist jokes with the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.... but the situation was so fukked up that it's ALL gotta get addressed.

 

[ISO]

I wanna Rock right now, I’m Rob Base & I came to get down...

Rob Base & Dj Ez Rock...

Wow that’s wild.

Kurtis Blow

Coke LaRock

Chubb Rock

 

[NoMayo15]

You know of a Oliver North?

No, I'm not familiar with North. Did he both bring drugs into the black community and then propose and put forward a bill in Congress to speed up mass incarceration?!

There were tens of thousands of predators put away for good, but I guess that fact doesn't match your narrative. I'm talking about people who'd break into a senior citizen's home, beat them up, rape them repeatedly, then set the house on fire to hide the evidence and get rid of the witness.

That was a dude I went to junior high school with named Robin Patterson.

I got more stories just like that.​

Damn.

 

[truth2you]

There were tens of thousands of predators put away for good, but I guess that fact doesn't match your narrative. I'm talking about people who'd break into a senior citizen's home, beat them up, rape them repeatedly, then set the house on fire to hide the evidence and get rid of the witness.

That was a dude I went to junior high school with named Robin Patterson.

I got more stories just like that.​

And most of they were getting high, I remember the shyt too. When you look back it was people from fukked up high lead areas, and get high people.

Square people don't understand how cocaine pushed a lot of the violence. I've seen simple shyt turn into arguments, then violence all because they were high off crack or cocaine. Sit in a trap, and see for yaself what the drug does to people emotions

Politicians new this because doctors told them. In order to make a bill you do research first, but that didn't happen for us, we got prison. And I'm talking about people AFTER, not those who did the actual violence

Ask yourself why when we ask for reparations, they need a study to see what happened even though it's a million studies done already?

Don't fall for the bullshyt game all the time black people. Yes, foul shyt happened, but ask WHY, if you don't the devil can give you all types of solutions that keeps you stuck in position.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

If not for that shyt, the 2000's was the greatest era to be a kid/teenager.

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Fixed

 

[NoMayo15]

My man, have you been in the streets. The difference between a street guy, and a cop, is the badge. Any street person knows where to get guns, you think police don't, and they have informants all over the place? Please stop watching tv!

My man, the government was working with the cartels. You think they brought tons of bricks from a nikka down the street. Didn't you hear Rick Ross's story? Do you even remember the Iran contra story. I remember the whole shyt, and it was a cia agent who told everything at a south central townhall meeting in 1996

And those "investments" were not from the government as much as nonprofits. Do you not understand how rich America is? Why are nonprofits doing their job?

Yes, my point is it's not just the government doing all these terrible things. Please stop reading Hotep Weekly.

 

[Waterproof]

So that's where the term basehead came from.

Yep