Every response, including this one:

To utterly destroy a man economically, convince him he has nothing to offer which is worth significant money, and offer him a bare existence without working.

...is something you can easily say has happened or is happening even now.

That's a whole lot of coincidences.

Lee Brown, ex-drug czar, ex-police commissioner of New York City was once asked if he felt there was a plot against young Black men. He said if there were it would look remarkably like what we're seeing.