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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wilberforce15" data-source="post: 4905249" data-attributes="member: 5053">It IS the only or predominant socioeconomic theory. All other meaningful theories are derived from it.The rest of your posts are just defending it as a good thing, not denying that this is a fact. Crack should be penalized far worse than cocaine. You'll say it's because the harsher penalties were targeted on a racial basis. The facts are that black drug crime more often brought bodies, violence, and other major social problems than white drug use. So, some drugs were penalized harder because those were the drugs that were destroying the communities due to the behavior around them. There weren't too many shootouts over cocaine territory in American streets. Crack brought more violence, so it got treated more harshly.</blockquote>