Re: Scrumpy and coffee

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Note as well the class war aspect of the marketing and controlling of
crack cocaine.



Bryan Alexander
Department of English
University of Michigan
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On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Tom Condit wrote:

...
> particular to xenophobia.  From its mildest forms (Susan B.
> Anthony's remarks about "beer drinking foreigners" being able to
> vote while good tee-totalling Amurrican women couldn't) to
> today's hysteria about Colombian cocaine cartels, drug fears have
> used to whip up hysteria for other purposes. The first wave of
> concern about opium accompanied the Oriental Exclusion Acts.
> Marijuana (note the use of the Mexican name) was discovered as
> big menace contemporaneously with the drive to deport Mexican
> immigrants during the great depression.  Etc., etc., etc.
>
> Tom Condit
> <tomcondit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 1801-A Cedar Street
> Berkeley, California 94703
> 510-845-7251
>
>
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