The nature-versus-nurture race debate directly shaped 1990s crime policy

Evidence

Biggie Smalls had no idea he had released his debut single on the eve of the most spirited academic debate in recent history on whether Black people were natural or nurtured fools. It was an academic debate that had serious political repercussions for Clinton’s tough-on-Blacks New Democrats and the newest force in American politics, which pledged to be even tougher. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1133