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Your understanding is not great.
 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
The difference in criminal punishments between powdered cocaine and rock cocaine is an example of laws which criminalize blacks cheaper, more addictive, more easily distributed and therefore more pervasive drugs differently than whites less cheap, less addictive, less easily distributed and therefore less pervasive drugs, since powdered cocaine use is more of a white affluent people thing and crack (rock) cocaine use is more of a black poor people thing.
FYP
One would think that trying to help the poor and lower class by clamping down hard on something that is a vicious scourge on their communities would be a good thing.
But not in Insane-o-merica
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