Wow, what a nice read. Who here remember the crack epidemic of the early 1980's and the backlash to Black Americans and Latinos. We now know it was a lie
Contrast back then to the epidemic situation today:
Today, with some notable exceptions, the nation is reacting to the opioid epidemic by humanizing people with addictions — depicting them not as hopeless junkies, but as people battling substance use disorders — while describing the crisis as a public health emergency. That depth of sympathy for a group of people who are overwhelmingly white was nowhere to be seen during the 1980s and 90s, when a cheap, smokable form of cocaine known as crack was ravaging black communities across the country.
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