Donovan X. Ramsey discusses his book, 'When Crack Was King' — the story of the crack epidemic through four survivors — and draws lessons for the opioid epidemic.
Yeah, and also, certain other ideas. Believe it or not, I was considered a problem kid in school. What I didn’t realize was that there was this entire apparatus built around marginalizing and criminalizing Black children.
When I was a kid, I came to the conclusion that being Black is kind of like being famous, in the sense that you go places and people think they know you. One of the things I really wanted to put forward is that these are people who are becoming themselves, as we all do. And they’re doing it under all of these forces. They’re making good and bad choices. But they are human and susceptible to the tides of life just like anybody else. That’s why it was important for me to include more than one personal narrative: So you can see four different people making different — and sometimes the same — choices.
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