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Toronto mayor Rob Ford: a reminder that even white people smoke crack
For many years, there was an extra stigma around crack cocaine. Now a rich, powerful man has used it and wants us to forgive
Let me be clear. Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, is a hypocrite and abuffoon.
He is also an addict, and what drug he is addicted to shouldn't matter.
In the media, there was a mocking smugness directed towards him because he used crack. Crack is a poor person's drug. It is associated with African-Americans. It is perceived as the lowest of the low.
I read the media reports, the tweets, the comedians, as they yelled, "Look! A white guy, a wealthy white guy, uses crack. Ha ha." They should have just added what they really thought, "Stick to beer, or at least have the decency to use blow like rest of us."
I guess it's funny when someone uses crack, especially a powerful person.
Crack has always been treated as the worst of the worst. My childhood was filled with media reports of an epidemic of crack babies that would swamp hospitals, their feeble bodies and brains forever taxing the schools system and prisons. A narrative that played into every racist's fear.
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