The reason blacks prefer crack is that it is cheaper because there is very little cocaine in it. The whites and affluent blacks prefer cocaine as a status symbol. They are also more discrete about it than crack users. And from personal experience, a majority of crimes are committed by black people. I also know this from personal experience. Everyone in this country has the same opportunities to pull themselves up by their boot straps and succeed. In fact, the black people have greater opportunities than the the white people. So you have to ask yourself, why do they and in general poor people not avail themselves of these opportunities to succeed? Simple, welfare. We have become a welfare state, where it is more economical to live on welfare than to get an education and do something constructive with your life. In addition, the gov't prefers welfare (and would like most, if not all of us on welfare) because we become dependent on it, and will do what they say so that we may stay on it. IE, they can control us by making us all equal and poor and totally dependent upon the gov't for our existence.