Partially what Rasan said was right though, because the crack seemed to only infiltrate the black communities. Crack wasn't really ever a white problem, whereas coke just a few years before was seen as a rich man's drug in a lot of ways. Crack destroyed the inner cities of Detroit and NYC at a time when the economy was already crap. Then they found out that fools were banking it pretty hard from selling crack, and drug charges came with a much bigger penalty. There's fools that are locked up forever on their first drug charge with no chance at parole, yet people have killed dudes and can get out in 25 years, maybe less. Makes no damn sense.