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The word community does have many meanings depending on
your interpretation. Each of us lives and belongs to a
community. When we write our address on a piece of mail
and send it through the United States Post Office to: Bill
collectors, friends, or family members it defines, What
community, Where the community is located, What state the
community is located in, Where the states community, What
is the national community: Africa, Europe or America.

I have always been told, “Home is where the heart is and
where you lay your head is not necessary home”. In my
community we face issues no different from any other
community. The struggle’s of maintaining a home, Helping
family we their in need, an even for some of us the noise
neighbor factor. Here is what happened to the black
community.

Crack cocaine (Koh Kayn ) The chemical for formula for
cocaine is ( C17 H21 NO4 ) it is better known in my
community as “ the black man’s kryptonite “. Cocaine is a
bitter drug which is made from the coca shrub; in large
doses it is very poisonous. Cocaine is a valuable drug if
used properly, but is the worst of the habit forming
drugs. Cocaine affects the nervous system and dulls your
sensations. Cocaine was first prepared from the coca leaf
in 1844 and in 1914 the Harrison act made it illegal to
sale in the United States except under doctor’s
prescription: written in the world encyclopedia.

In my community we are taught by our Elders, during the
1960’s the C.I.A used cocaine in the black community in
hopes of bring down the black panthers party. Crack
cocaine as a result spread through out the black community
and other communities. I remember summers in Los Anglos,
California living in gated communities because crack
dealings used the doorways and hall ways to deal to
addicts.

Cocaine was easy to buy and easy to distribute. Which to a
community stricken by poverty, crime and racial tension;
Crack became the new social drug. “They say dope fiend
players don’t die, they multiply but that’s a ghetto term,
an old insidious lie; so now you sit in a five by five and
everyday and night you ask yourself why?” This piece is
from author and poet Savon Lindsay, author of “my naked
soul”. Mr. Lindsay is a recovering addict. In the black
community and neighborhoods young black men and women have
been traumatized. Young black children have been raised in
homes where it is common to know someone who has been on
crack cocaine or from having been on crack.

Many black women are without black men in the home due to
false drug charges. Black men are profiled as drug dealers
for the wearing of different hip-hop fashions’. The
prisons are filled with black men and women whose lives
have been destroyed because of crack cocaine.
Organizations’ such as Victory Outreach, Transitions
Project , Join and Outside in focus on helping people who
have been affect by crack cocaine, Domestic Violence and
homelessness.