Totally agree and this was my first thought as well. The cocaine - crack disparity is all anyone needs to know to realize that there is a prejudice against blacks that results in more of them being incarcerated. When black people essentially get 25 years in prison for the black person version of a drug that white people get a few months or years for, of course they are going to pile up in the prisons. It is also a poor - rich thing though, because even more so than being a black drug, crack is a poor drug.