Dr. Kemp had continued writing in his study until the shots aroused him.

Cracks. Codes. ID swipes.

It had a huge impact on life.

So let me start by talking about crack cocaine, and how it transformed the gang.

I never did anything to anyone that wasn't.

I have a friend who's cracked their control systems.

The Klingons call it Klach D'kel Brakt.

So there are three things I want to do.

Then along comes crack cocaine.

1 h 30 min to the Big Dropper.

The V's hacked your code.

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all right, i know you get wasted on these things, but if you piss in my bed again, you're sleeping outside. okay?

Truly, you would be a great success story.

It was unbelievable.

To give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there if you look at the death rates just of random, young black males growing up in the inner city in the United States, the death rates during crack were about one percent.

(Laughter)

There were limits to how powerful and important you could be if you had to live at home with your mother.

So they're going into convenience stores, stealing Tide, and a 20 bottle of Tide is equal to 10 dollars of crack cocaine or weed.

It was shortly after this that young Motty got the idea of bringing pals back in the small hours to continue the gay revels in the home.

But he hears some voices up in the stairwell, so he climbs up the stairwell, comes around the corner, and finds a group of young African American men playing dice.

I would say that in the last 25 years, of every invention or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one in terms of impact on the well being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.

So, if you believe the media accounts, being a drug dealer in the height of the crack cocaine epidemic was a very glamorous life, in the words of Virginia Postrel.

Because you could smoke crack cocaine you can't smoke powdered cocaine and smoking is a much more efficient mechanism of delivering a high than snorting it.

And that was the beginning of what turned out to be a beautiful relationship that involved Sudhir living in the housing project on and off for 10 years, hanging out in crack houses, going to jail with the gang members, having the windows shot out of his car, having the police break into his apartment and steal his computer disks you name it.

You know, there's sort of these two polarizing perspectives, right, everything is great, the internet has created all this freedom and liberty, and everything's going to be fantastic or everything is terrible, the internet has created all these tools for cracking down and spying, and controlling what we say.