the rapture the beginning of the end documentary

THE RAPTURE THE BEGINNING OF THE END DOCUMENTARY CRACK

It pervaded so many different parts of people’s lives,” Nelson remembers. I remember people would have removable steering wheels so that your car would be harder to steal. “Crack hit people that hadn’t been caught up in other drugs,” Nelson says, referring to its impact on women, and in particular mothers, many of whom would lose or surrender custody of their children.

THE RAPTURE THE BEGINNING OF THE END DOCUMENTARY CRACK

Meanwhile crack continued to invade and tear apart the homes of the most vulnerable. This surge of wealth into the hands of a few dealers unprotected and unsupervised by the law led to armed disputes between competing factions that transformed neighborhoods into literal war zones. “It was like a gold rush that hit the hood,” remembers Styles. A McDonald’s recruitment video from the time loses its inspirational edge when you find out that pay was only $3.25 an hour. Former dealers like Samson Styles and “Freeway Ricky” Donell Ross explain how the appeal of selling crack was rooted in a capitalistic, dog-eat-dog reality, and opened up an easy way for young men like themselves to make the kind of money they had only ever dreamed of. Yet in places like LA, New York and Washington DC people were lining up, or even coming in from the suburbs and waiting drive-in style, to get their fix. “You couldn’t go to a white neighborhood that I know of anywhere in the country and see people openly selling crack,” Nelson explains. The wildly addictive drug was transformative, particularly for those communities inhabited by African Americans struggling to break the cycle of poverty. By 1984, it had found its way into inner-city, working-class communities in the form of crack rock, a stronger form of cocaine sheared of its salt content that induced short, intense highs when smoked. As a result, supply and demand boomed, and prices fell. Movies like Scarface and scandals like Richard Pryor’s fiery freebasing mishap brought the drug into popular consciousness.

Crack begins by explaining the rise of powder cocaine, an expensive party drug that connoted power, money and glamour. He details the events of over a decade like an epic saga, and accentuates his collage of interviews and archival footage with popular hip-hop music that directly spoke to, or was influenced by, the crack era. Contributions received and accepted by the LCMS are deemed to be in agreement with this statement.In the documentary, Nelson traces the story of crack and its victims with a myth-busting approach. If a contributor cannot be contacted, the LCMS will use the gift to meet a similar pressing need that most closely matches the contributor's original intent.Ĭonsistent with Synod Board policy and in recognition of a more challenging economic and philanthropic/fundraising environment due to inflationary pressure, not more than 12.5 percent of any charitable contribution will be allocated to administering gifts and communicating with contributors (compared to a not-more-than ceiling of 10.5 percent the previous fiscal year). In these situations, the LCMS will make reasonable attempts to contact contributors to apply their contribution toward another aspect of ministry that aligns closely the contributor’s goals and values. Occasionally, we may receive more in contributions for a particular purpose than can be wisely applied to it in the foreseeable future or the purpose may cease to be feasible. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Inc., including Mission Central (in Mapleton, Iowa), is an IRS registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity.Ī contribution designated (restricted) for a specific purpose, when accepted, will be used only to fund expenses related to that purpose.

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The rapture the beginning of the end documentary