Earlier this week, a 22-year-old inter­view with John Ehrlichman, a for­mer aide to President Richard Nixon, was pub­lished in Harper’s Magazine that con­firmed what many black peo­ple have always sus­pect­ed, which is that the “War on Drugs” was specif­i­cal­ly designed to tar­get African-Americans. Said Ehrlichman, “The Nixon cam­paign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, … Continue read­ing Confession Of A Former Black Republican: The Party I Loved Despises My People