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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

The Worst Threat Is Mom Herself." And those stories featuredpictures of Black children

And you had headlines such as, "Crack Babies:
The Worst Threat Is Mom Herself." And those stories featured
pictures of Black children

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And you had headlines such as,
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"Crack Babies: The Worst Threat Is Mom Herself."
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And those stories featured pictures of Black children.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:10
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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Movie Summary

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
It's hard to really talk about this, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
It's hard to really talk about this,
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information.
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crack babies." - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crac...
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year.
A potential horror story as these children reach school age. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
A potential horror story as these children reach school age.
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as 60 % of students - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as...
In reality, only two to three percent of children born - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
In reality, only two to three percent of children born
The real, kind of, maternal issue - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
The real, kind of, maternal issue
Yet that's what gets sold to the American public, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Yet that's what gets sold to the American public,
In the lives of Black women - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
In the lives of Black women
I was abandoned by my children's father - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I was abandoned by my children's father
In my crisis, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
In my crisis,
And he literally turned my case over to the police. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
And he literally turned my case over to the police.
Despite the fact that she was completely honest about her drug problem - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:21
Despite the fact that she was completely honest about her dr...
Last year, a Florida woman was convicted of administering - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Last year, a Florida woman was convicted of administering
We believe it was the first time a prosecutor - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:13
We believe it was the first time a prosecutor
They had no direct evidence whatsoever - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
They had no direct evidence whatsoever
Despite the myth and scientific misinformation. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Despite the myth and scientific misinformation.
And my kids went to long-term relative care, out of state. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And my kids went to long-term relative care, out of state.
The judge had no understanding of addiction, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
The judge had no understanding of addiction,