After all, on the nightly televised news programs -- while middle class viewers, home from work, settled into their comfortable couches and Lazy-Boy chairs -- videos of black men busted for crack cocaine were all the evidence that those citizens needed in order to reinforce their belief that there needed to be a war on drugs. The truth is that years before the drug war was launched crack cocaine was "…spreading rapidly in the poor black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country" (Alexander, 2010)