My quip was tongue-in-cheek, however, you’re not wrong here.

As John Ehrlichman, a top Nixon aide, revealed in a 1994 interview that was published in 2016, the war on drugs itself was designed to target Black people and “hippies”:

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

Their plan set the country on the misguided, punitive, and counterproductive path it pursues today, as administrations since have carried it forward. Incarceration rates skyrocketed during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, surging from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997, and Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump made their own damaging contributions to escalating the drug war.

https://www.vera.org/news/fifty-years-ago-today-president-nixon-declared-the-war-on-drugs

If you want to know more about the above poster’s comment read:

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and

On Orientalism, of course there’s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)