Crack Documentary on Netflix

Allison & Marc talk about the documentary on Netflix

Episode Transcript

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We talked about the Billie Holliday moviecoming out. Yes, just watch the
documentary Crack on Netflix. It isnot only heartbreaking, but really insightful and
really giving insight into the whole farceof war on drugs, how the government

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basically supplied the drugs to create thedownfall of the inner cities across America.
It talks about just all of thosethings that from a distance look one way,
but it's really a diabolical plot planto you know, enact it on
poor inner city black folks. Solet me ask you this. Do you

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think that the meth crisis that we'reseeing now that hits a lot of communities,
really underprivileged communities of the majority,do you think that that same You
know, no, of course it'snot the same thing. But do you
think that there is any similarities withwhat's going on with Well, the problem

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is this language, the language nowand the young you know, one of
the this is mes. I'm nottalking about opioids, I'm talking about right,
But even even with that now,when you say addict, now,
the first thing is people hit youwith that, Oh they're an addict,
they're going they have a sickness.Back then, they were animals, they
were the scourge of the earth.Yeah, you know what I mean,

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And so yeah, it definitely changed. Uh. But yeah, I think
when you talk about poor people ingeneral, there's definitely difference when it's a
wealthy person. When you can dodrugs in your house, yes, in
your mansion, yes, and ifthe cops come knocking at the door,
it's a different thing. Now.Let's let me let me say this.
When you were talking about that,I kind of had a revelation because we

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always find ourselves, me and youMark in these conversations about what's it going
to take, what's it going totake to get to a place where you
can walk down the street as ablack or brown person, as someone with
a hit job on someone who doand and feel totally safe, totally like

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you're not going to face any sortof discrimination. I don't know if that
can happen, and when you havesuch a big majority, I'm not sure.
But my thing is this, Itjust occurred to me if if we
can watch shows like The Crack,you know, documentary, and we can
see it and we can see howwrong it was, and we could really
know that what we were watching thatOliver North testimony in Congress. This is

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what he was talking about America providingarms to the to the contras. That's
that one right for and they getthe money and the whole. So if
we can as a nation look atthat and say, you know what what
that that was wrong and that puta whole community of uh, you know,
black communities. We're just talking aboutcrack in this one black community and

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the inner cities. It took afeeling of family and whatever right at the
edge of the Civil rights moving Now. I need you to know the timeline
right after the Civil rights moving nowhere we come in in the seventies because
when I was a child, Iremember visiting my aunts in New York and
it was heroin. You saw heroinevery junkies on the street is everywhere.

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So right after that, look atmy man Hue Newton, right brought down
by drugs and all this. Okay, So what I'm basically saying is if
we can get together as a nation, all of us, and say,
okay, that's the genesis of it, you know, of what we see
in our inner cities right now,that's what it is right there. And
then if we can go one stepfurther and say, okay, but they

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still know this property is valuable becausenow we see gentrification. Like, if
we could do this looking at thefacts, then maybe we can get over
it. That's the problem. Wecan't. Well that's a damn shame because
if the paperwork is in front ofyou that shows the flow chart of how
this happened, well, then somepeople are just never going to that.
Some people want to you need tohave a criminal class, I guess for

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some people. Well, because atthe end of the day, like you
said, crackheads, cracked baby,all that stuff was like a lie,
and whites used more crack than black. Right, So when you think crack
though, I dare you be honest, you think black? You definitely do
right? Black woman almost oh crackhead, Yeah, I would think that for
sure. So and that's the that'sthe thing. And then you said Ali

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North, Well, Ali North,after he did his crimes, where you
go, he went right to radioand became a radio superstar. We see
criminal. Yeah, and that's whyit's long. It's gonna be a long
walk. But I mean, I'mglad documentaries like this. God bless the
filmmakers, the documentary makers for puttingthe truth out here in a real,
palatable, easy way to digest.Check it out. It's on Netflix,