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On the recordMarch 10, 2021
We now know that the war on drugs was a deliberate attack on racial minorities for political purposes executed by President Nixon.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler asserts that the war on drugs targeted racial minorities politically.

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