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A divestment in schools, discriminatory housing practices, predatory lending, a crack cocaine epidemic, mass incarceration putting more Black bodies behind bars than were owned at the height of slavery.

Crack, crack!

Between crack, AIDS, gang violence, mass incarceration, gentrification, police shootings, black people have more than enough reasons to stay up at night.

And the reason why we needed to do this is because there was a severe lack of trust in the black community due to the violence of the crack era.

So, if you believe the media accounts, being a drug dealer in the height of the crack cocaine epidemic was a very glamorous life, in the words of Virginia Postrel.

First, I want to explain how and why crack cocaine had such a profound influence on inner-city gangs.

So let me start by talking about crack cocaine, and how it transformed the gang.

To do that, you have to actually go back to a time before crack cocaine, in the early '80s, and look at it from the perspective of a gang leader.

Then along comes crack cocaine.

And in the words of Malcolm Gladwell, crack cocaine was the extra-chunky version of tomato sauce for the inner city.

Because crack cocaine was an unbelievable innovation.

I don't have time to talk about it today, but if you think about it, I would say that in the last 25 years, of every invention or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one in terms of impact on the well-being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.

So what was it about crack cocaine?

And it turned out there was this audience that didn't know it wanted crack cocaine, but when it came, it really did.

This is about 1990, peak of the crack epidemic.

And I would stand at attention, and all the girls would crack up, and it was sort of a little joke.

If we could crack them, we would get into the endgame, and after hours of work, in a magical moment, they both fall within 10 seconds of each other, and soon, we're on the final runaround, a series of clues that will lead us to the coin, and we're racing through the halls of MIT, trying not to knock over or terrify tour groups, when we realize we're not alone, there's another team on the runaround as well, and we don't know who's ahead.

But at the first crack of the lid, the box burst open.

One possible way for the water to reach the bedrock and from there the ocean is a crevasse, or a crack in the ice.

All it takes is a crack to get started.

You can fly over most of the Greenland ice sheet and see nothing, no cracks, no features on the surface, but as this helicopter flies towards the coast, the path that water would take on its quest to flow downhill, one crack appears, then another and another.

For example: "I have been so many things along my curious journey: a poor boy, a nigger, a Yale man, a Harvard man, a faggot, a Christian, a crack baby, alleged, the spawn of Satan, the Second Coming, Casey."

The only living creature I would find, and had fun with, were these sneaky little plants trying to grow through the crack of the concrete pavement.

No matter how rough the path, how big the crack, you push through to your goal, because that's where your heart is.

Even as O’Connor probes the most unsavory aspects of humanity, she leaves the door to redemption open a crack.

We have to teach kids that if they're on a diet of refined sugar, they go up and down, just like if they're on a diet of crack.

If they think the company is a good idea, they get the first crack at investing, and then sponsor the company’s initial public offering, or IPO.

You'll crack your ribs.

So how do we crack the code on confidence?

She would never crack a smile.

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