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The racist ‘crack pipe’ panic and the White House’s shameful capitulation | Opinion

Republicans manufactured a racist “crack pipe” scandal, so the Biden admin threw Black people who use drugs under the bus.

File image of a crack pipe hanging in a tree as crews from the City of Lynwood and South Gate clean up a homeless encampment in 2010. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
File image of a crack pipe hanging in a tree as crews from the City of Lynwood and South Gate clean up a homeless encampment in 2010. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)Read moreAl Seib / MCT