I heard ';Crack'; was invented just to kill off blacks... I hope this is not true... Is there any truth to this?

I was looking around and I wish I would've bookmarked it but this site said that crack was actually invented and distributed to blacks so they would smoke it and overdose! I mean I don't care since they are doing drugs but is this at all true? On the same site it implied that AIDS was also created for the same reason and it just got out of control.I heard ';Crack'; was invented just to kill off blacks... I hope this is not true... Is there any truth to this?
What is true is that it is was dropped into the black community in the early 80's and has been killing off blacks more than any other race ever since.





Was it planned along with Aids to help kill us, people have different opinions but you know what they say, truth is stranger than fiction.I heard ';Crack'; was invented just to kill off blacks... I hope this is not true... Is there any truth to this?
In the United States in the 1950s, legally manufactured tablets of methamphetamine were used nonmedically by college students, truck drivers, and athletes, who usually did not become severely addicted. This pattern changed drastically in the 1960s with the increased availability of injectable methamphetamine. Methamphetamine trafficking and abuse in the United States have been on the rise over the past few years. As a result, this drug is having a devastating impact in many communities across the nation.


Amphetamine was first synthesized by German chemist L. Edeleano and originally named phenylisopropylamine








Jan 18, 1887


Amphetamine was first synthesized by German chemist L. Edeleano and originally named phenylisopropylamine





1919


Methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was discovered in Japan








1930's Amphetamines are first marketed as 'Benzedrine' in an over-the-counter inhaler to treat congestion.








1937 Amphetamine is first available in tablet form by prescription for use in the treatment of narcolepsy and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).








World War II Amphetamine widely distributed to soldiers to help them keep fighting.








1942 Dextro-amphetamine and methamphetamine become commonly available.








1970 Amphetamine becomes illegal with the passage of the 'U.S. Drug Abuse Regulation and Control Act of 1970'.
a few years ago I read a book about this. it was something along the lines of the US funding a political war in columbia or nicaragua. The man in columbia/nicaragua the US was backing was financed his side of the war by selling cocaine in the US.





From central america, the drugs went to a black dude in southern california where he acted as the main distributer. The drug dealer, from south central, los angeles, was basically distributed the cocaine in predominantly black areas. Since cocaine is typically expensive and less affordable to the target population, the cocaine was refined to crack cocaine which is more addictive and costs less to purchase.





basically, the US turned a blind eye to the selling of crack to blacks in order to finance their illegal war
No the conspiracy is that crack was pumped into the US to fund an illegal war the US government were influencing somewhere in South America it just happens that at the time the poorest neighborhoods were majority black. Then when the war ended the US government ended this trade and declared a war on drugs.
I can't believe anyone actually believes that.


If there were scientist smart enough to create HIV, then they'd be smart enough to make non-blacks immune to it.





Cocaine was in Coca-Cola, if people created that to kill of black people then they wouldn't had so many white people promoting it.
AIDS came from monkeys in Africa. It spread to humans when somewhere down the line an African black decided to have sex with one, and then he proceeded to do as black do...knock up as many women as possible. Thus, AIDS spread without anyone knowing it.
I believe that about AIDS but i thought crack's purpose was to be a cheaper alternative to coke - it didn't end up being that way, but that's what it was intended to be.
Claiming that AIDS was created in a lab somewhere kinda puts their whole argument into doubt...





And AIDS was transferred to humans from people eating chimps, not people having sex with chimps, yeesh.
That is a load of crap. Conspiracy theorist are nuts.








Aids was not ';created'; to kill black people.
If that's the case, then meth was invented to kill off white people.
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The first confirmed case of AIDS was identified on June 5, 1981. In four stories today, we look at the impact around the globe.JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)鈥擨t began quietly, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair.





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Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial and the freedoms of the sexual revolution. Along the way from oddity to pandemic, AIDS changed they way people live and love.





Slowed but unchecked, the epidemic's relentless march has established footholds in the world's most populous countries. Advances in medicine and prevention that have made the disease manageable in the developed world haven't reach the rest.





In the worst case, sub-Saharan Africa, it has been devastating. And the next 25 years of AIDS promise to be deadlier than the first.





AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million.





';It is the worst and deadliest epidemic that humankind has ever experienced,'' Mark Stirling, the director of East and Southern Africa for UNAIDS, said in an interview.





More effective medicines, better access to treatment and improved prevention in the last few years have started to lower the grim projections. But even if new infections stopped immediately, additional African deaths alone would exceed 40 million, Stirling said.





';We will be grappling with AIDS for the next 10, 20, 30, 50 years,'' he said.





Efforts to find an effective vaccine have failed dismally, so far. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative says 30 are being tested in small-scale trials. More money and more efforts are being poured into prevention campaigns but the efforts are uneven. Success varies widely from region to region, country to country.





Still, science offers some promise. In highly developed countries, cocktails of powerful antiretroviral drugs have largely altered the AIDS prognosis from certain death to a manageable chronic illness.





There is great hope that current AIDS drugs might prevent high-risk people from becoming infected. One of these, tenofovir, is being tested in several countries. Plans are to test it as well with a second drug, emtricitabine or FTC.





But nothing can be stated with certainty until clinical trials are complete, said Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS researcher and infectious diseases chief at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.





And then there is the risk that treatment will create a resistant strain or, as some critics claim, cause people to lower their guard and have more unprotected sex.





Medicine offers less hope in the developing world where most victims are desperately poor with little or no access to the medical care needed to administer and monitor AIDS drugs. Globally, just 1 in 5 HIV patients get the drugs they need, according to a recent report by UNAIDS, the body leading the worldwide battle against the disease.





Stirling said that despite the advances, the toll over the next 25 years will go far beyond the 34 million thought to have died from the Black Death in 14th century Europe or the 20 to 40 million who perished in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.





Almost two-thirds of those infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty, ignorance and negligent political leadership extended the epidemic's reach and hindered efforts to contain it. In South Africa, the president once questioned the link between HIV and AIDS and the health minister urged use of garlic and the African potato to fight AIDS, instead of effective treatments.





AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa, which has accounted for nearly half of all global AIDS deaths. The epidemic is still growing and its peak could be a decade or more away.





In at least seven countries, the U.N. estimates that AIDS has reduced life expectancy to 40 years or less. In Botswana, which has the world's highest infection rate, a child born today can expect to live less than 30 years.





';Particularly in southern Africa, we may have to apply a new notion, and that is of 'underdeveloping' nations. These are nations which, because of the AIDS epidemic, are going backwards,'' Peter Piot, the director of UNAIDS, said in a speech in Washington in March.





Later, at a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, last month, Piot cited encouraging news including a sharp fall in new infections in some African countries. There also has been an eightfold increase in the number of Africans benefiting from antiretroviral treatment, he said.





But, he warned, ';the crisis of AIDS continues and is getting worse and any slackening of our efforts would jeopardize the hard-won gains of each and every one of us.''





Besides the personal suffering of the infected and their families, the epidemic already has had devastating consequences for African education systems, industry, agriculture and economies in general. The impact is magnified because AIDS weakens and kills many young adults, people in their most productive years.





So many farmers and farmworkers have died of AIDS that the U.N. has invented the term ';new variant famine.'' It means that because of AIDS, the continent will experience persistent famine for generations instead of the usual cycles of hunger tied to variable weather.





Africa's misery hangs like a sword over Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.





Researchers don't expect the infection rates to rival those in Africa. But Asia's population is so big that even low infection rates could easily translate into tens of millions of deaths.





Although fewer than 1 percent of its people are infected, India has topped South Africa as the country with the most infections, 5.7 million to 5.5 million, according to UNAIDS.





The astonishing numbers have grown from a humble beginning.





Nobody knows for sure when or where, but the AIDS epidemic is thought to have begun in the primeval forests of West Africa when a virus lurking in the blood of a monkey or a chimpanzee made the leap from one species to another, infecting a hunter.





Researchers have found HIV in a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasa, Congo. Genetic analysis of his blood suggested the HIV infection stemmed from a single virus in the late 1940s or early 1950s.





For decades at least, the early human infections went unnoticed on a continent where life routinely is harsh, short and cheap.





Then, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported five young actively homosexual men in Los Angeles had a new, mysterious and as yet unnamed illness that attacked the immune system and caused a type of pneumonia. A month later, it reported an odd surge among homosexual men in the number of cases of Karposi Sarcoma, a rare cancer now linked to AIDS.





In the early days of the epidemic, just the mention of AIDS elicited snickers and jokes. Few saw it as a major threat. It was the ';Gay Plague,'' and for some, divine retribution for a lifestyle Christian fundamentalists and other conservatives consider deviant and sinful.





When heterosexuals began to contract the disease through blood transfusions and other medical procedures, they were often portrayed as ';innocent'' victims of a disease spread by the immoral and licentious behavior of others.





The initial reactions and prejudices associated with AIDS slowed the early response to the epidemic and limited the funding. Too much time, money and effort was spent on the wrong priorities, Stirling aid.





';Over the last 25 years, the one real weakness was the search for the magic bullet. There is no quick and simple fix,'' he said. ';But with the recent successes we are starting to see the end of epidemic.''





';There is evidence to suggest we are at the tipping point,'' said Stirling.





The pace of change over the last couple of years suggests the number of new infections can be reduced by 50 to 60 percent by 2020鈥攊f the momentum continues.





';It is surely possible, it is doable,'' Stirling said.