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Originally posted by GarthB
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Originally posted by PWL
Let's just say the moon is always full and has more crack than Harlem.
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Tell me, when was the last time you were in Harlem?
On what basis what do you judge the amount of crack there?
Are you as racist as you appear?
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Garth: A simple Google search reveals:
1. New York is classified as an HIDTA or high intensity drug trafficking area. Of 89,323 felony arrests in Hew York City in 2003, 14,023 tested positive for crack cocaine. (Office of National Drug Control Policy)
2. Studies conducted in East Harlem, NY, reported 33% of crack users to be female; 91% of the population using cocaine were African American or Hispanic. (Medicine.com)
3. My last time in Harlem was in 1991. After a game at Yankee Stadium, we drove down Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. on our way to a meeting in mid-town Manhattan with Jim Evans, who had called the plate that night. He did a pretty good job. (grin)
4. I was last in Mississippi in 1960, registering black (we called them Negroes in those days) voters for the Kennedy/Nixon presidential election. We hoped most would vote for Kennedy. Perhaps they did, but Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, a segregationist Democrat, won Mississippi's eight electoral votes.
5. Facts are not racist. There is plenty of crack in Harlem. And Houston. And Los Angeles. And even Seattle.