studies consistently found that whites were equally likely, if not more likely, than people of color to use and sell illegal drugs. Black men were still labeled the enemy. Nor did it matter, when the drug war was taking off, that nearly all the sensationalized claims that crack cocaine was some kind of “demon drug,” drastically more harmful than powder cocaine, were false or misleading. Black people charged with possession of crack in inner cities were still punished far more harshly than white people in possession of powder cocaine in the suburbs. And it didn’t matter that African Americans
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