00:00In the 80s, there was a lifestyle of celebration, and coke was part of that lifestyle.
00:05It was the glitzy drug.
00:08When crack came along,
00:10it changed everything about the black community, and it changed everything about America.
00:18It was like the gold rush.
00:20It was people coming from all over to buy this wonder drug.
00:24The drug so powerful, it will make you sell the clothes off your back.
00:28The reporting played right into all of these stereotypes and this narrative.
00:37We must be intolerant of drug use and drug sellers.
00:41You got a war on drugs.
00:43Is it not a war on the people that are supplying the drugs?
00:46Or is it only a war on the victims of the drug war?
00:54Just say no.
00:55It felt extraordinarily hypocritical.
00:59This was happening at a time when the U.S. government was turning a blind eye to cocaine smuggling.
01:09Our goal was to defeat communism in Central America.
01:13If that meant drugs got in and the youth of America used them, well, that was the way it was
01:17going to be.
01:21We knew that they were in on it.
01:23We knew that they were dealing on the side.
01:26What would you steal?
01:27Money and drugs and guns, whatever was it.
01:34That was kind of like chemical warfare on black communities.
01:46It's a story that has to be told.
01:58It's a story that's a threat.
01:59It's a story that's like a woman who's trying to get into more energy.
02:09It's a story that we're trying to get into more energy.
02:09It's a story that the way that we've been doing is doing a lot of work.
02:09Grazie.
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