War on Drugs is part of American Newspeek...Please Feel Free. It is an Installation for audience participation. The text below is the instructions / questions that people could write responses to. This text appears on the wall below the photograph.

What would you think if you knew that thousands of Black people were rounded up in mass arrests? What would you do if tens of thousands more were being stopped, searched, degraded at gunpoint and often beaten? Would you speak out? What would you think if the U.S. military were given police powers for the first time since reconstruction and charged with "sealing the southern boarder"? What if tanks rolled down the streets of Los Angeles using a battering ram to destroy occupied homes in the Black community? What if the police followed these tanks, throwing explosive devices into homes? Would you speak out? What if city governments were forcing the eviction of Black tenants on the basis that they were "undesirables" and seizing the property of landlords who refused to comply?

What if they called this a "War on drugs"?

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