Noam Chomsky on Black Lives Matter: Why Won't U.S. Own Up to History of Slavery & Racism?
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- www.democracynow.org - Noam Chomsky weighs in on the Black Lives Matter movement across the United States, calling it a response to the unresolved consequences of slavery and racism dating back hundreds of years. "[Slavery] is a large part of the basis for our wealth and privilege," Chomsky says. "Is there a slave museum in the United States? The first one is just being established now with a private donor. This is the core of our history along with the extermination and expulsion of the native population. But it's not part of our consciousness."
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This is exactly why you won't see Chomsky interviewed on mainstream media. He tells the ugly truth, and it's uglier than most people want to hear, or imagine.
Chomsky is a national treasure, no doubt about it. My 18 year old son was doing a school report on the ongoing conflict in Israel. So, he sent a question to Noam via email, and Noam Chomsky actually responded! I will love him forever because of that! He is absolutely the real deal and I truly wish he could live forever. He represents the very best of the human race.
What a steaming load. An apologist for the Cambodian Genocide who actually claimed the Khmer Rouge PREVENTED a huamanitarian Catastrophe in Cambodia and who also asserts that Holocaust Denial, has NOTHING to do with antisemitism. If God exists, Noam Chomsky will roast in hell for eternity, along with those who made an idol of that POS.
@@antimattv Your defense of his sophistry doesn't impress me. He is in bed with Holocaust deniers and not only REFUSED to denounce the Khmer Rouge, he claims they SAVED Cambodia from a "humanitarian catastrophe". He rivals Che Guevara in the affections of overeducated cretins who think their politics are "woke" and "chic".
The most apt punishment would be to condemn Noam Chomsky to life under one of the murderous and odious regimes he acts as an apologist for.
Why don't most "socialist" academics in America speak up about the fact that Black Lives Matter is a bourgeois, corporatist strategy to wreck working class solidarity? Critical Race Theory does nothing to expose the roots of injustice, it is in practice a device of the interests of Capital to drive out class consciousness, union-building, and actually promotes more racism.
"Don't touch our privilege and power" is a window to how all elites think, including tenured professors on the Left. Yes, even Chomsky and Hedges.
More people need to ask why Adolph Reed was cancelled from DSA events for promoting "class reductionism" while Chomsky's fear-mongering about Trump is being used by NeoLiberal NeoCons as a recruiting strategy for Biden's campaign to get the Left scared of "Neo-fascism" (which they use interchangeably with populism).
Everyone I know acknowledges that their first taste of Noam Chomsky was from some mainstream news source featuring Chomsky .
What a load of garbage 👎
Chomsky is a gate-keeper and has been a useful idiot his entire career .
@@FungusMossGnosis
Exactly !
And thank you !
Even Chomsky will admit that some evils cannot be avoided and that compromises are necessary...
My question is : why do Chomsky and all socialists get to decide WHICH necessary evils we must disregard at the moment , for the greater good in the long run ?
Hypocrites ! Technocrats !
Chomsky is a jokes
Those plantations did impress the Nazi's.. Its where they got many of their concepts.
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Thats very true. I think most of them didn't realise that one day he would turn on them in the same way he did to Stalin. They were just useful for the moment.
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underyourskindvd congrats to the first ignorant remark of the day! you know nothing about history.
America also doesnt want to owe up to the genocide of the american indian, let alone talk about it. Maybe thats the reasoning behind it, lets not talk about it and marginalise anyone who does.
How are we not talking about it? Every child in american public schools are taught about colonization and slavery. It makes up a HUGE chunk of the info taught to American kids.
In some sense though, it's no different than any other invasion.
When the French invaded Britain, they won because they were stronger.
Granted race was involved as well as deception on the US' side.
I do think it was wrong, but I do struggle to see the difference.
+U8ME that's fair but it's taught in such a way that we walk away thinking "man, they were rotten back then (not that long ago). But now we know that slavery and racism are bad." It's severed from the present, ancient history. We were unfathomably barbarous then; all better now. But how sealed shut do a person's eyes have to be to not understand the unspoken sentiment in the phrase "black lives matter"? Of course all lives matter, it's just that some are still treated like they don't - and by now you'd have to almost willfully ignore that fact when we are presented so frequently with footage of the murder of unarmed black men by those we deem authority. There may be more violent crime committed by young black men. The legacy of a massively brutal slave system contributes, but it's the durability of the unperceived racism that made it possible, then and now. In the future, when they look back at us, I hope they learn about our racism in a way that makes their own more visible. Its real.
David McGarry Unarmed white people are shot in similar numbers, but when was the last time you saw one of those make national news?
I'm not saying there isn't a problem but the media is making it seem like it's an epidemic.
While the real epidemic of young black men killing other young black men, goes under the radar.
***** That's a fact the left likes to ignore.
Any invading country would have done the same or worse.
I'm amazed at all the comments which say something like "I used to like Chomsky but now he's lost the plot... now he's gone to far!" These people are clearly intellectually and morally bankrupt. Here you have a man who speaks the truth in a calm, clear, rational and honest basis and his detractors can only throw general insults in response! It's the same old tactic, if you can't defeat the truth just ridicule, scorn and insult! These people are the one's who have lost the plot and have no cogent answer to Chomsky's argument. They have been defeated by the most powerful combination of them all.......truth and intellect!
I dont think ive ever heard him say anything positive about his own country. I know negative press is more prevalent but he sounds like someone who would prefer to live anywhere but America.
@@johnboy14 Have you read any of his books?
@@Jimmy6845 LOL! Noam Chomsky (distinquished linguist, philosopher, social scientist) supposedly has a "degenerative brain disorder" according to someone who lacks even on tenth of the intellect or sanity of Noam Chomsky.
@@Jimmy6845
They don't even know what they want.
they do. they want you and yourd dead, your daughters pimped out to them and the infrastructure and technology still running after you're gone. including the gibs
@Pain_Is_Good what's the "centrist" position to racism then?
and to all my black brothers and sisters out there.....THIS IS WHAT THE BENEFIT OF READING IS...
you become a heavyweight in debate, if you read the hard books.
you can dominate and reason with anyone and get through.
you are taken seriously
Noam Chomsky tells the unadulterated truth and for that I am grateful. Some people just don't want to hear it because it doesn't fit in with what they were taught all these years.
+Leslie Sinclair It is because of people Noam Chomsky that I like history and politics now. what is great about Black lives matter is that they're prepared to cut thorough the BS and get on with the job of change an unacceptable situation that is going on in the USA. I have confidence that they will succeed
They are too committed to a lie to process the truth and reality. Americans in a nutshell.
Ashe
What do you mean? We learned about slavery and segregation non stop for 10 years..all the white kids would cry and the black kids would get mad and beat up the white kids..in highschool, a black guy broke his hand punching me and 2 white girls in the head after another round of slavery education...he got suspended..
@@willb8684 Only a retarded Nazi racist would describe Chomsky as "an elitist Jew," and only a ignorant simpleton doesn't know that Chomsky is an Anarchist, or doesn't the know the difference between anarchism and elitism.
I love how people who don't like what he is saying only posit opinionated pejorative name-calling, but never any facts. That's what desparate people usually do when they don't like a message that they can't refute.
+Dule Savic oh? ure right. then all is dandy in murica. no jobless blacks here...not like america inherited the racism from europe cuz thats like saying they r immigrants from europe.
+ThePhobiaCrew I'm far from saying Americans are all peachy, but the fact is that there's racism/bigotry everywhere. Try living in Japan for example ;-) .
My whole point was that 'Muricans if anything are least racist people I know of, and even despite the fact they might hate people of other color, that won't stop them from working or making money with the people of different race/culture, which is something I can't say for Europeans or Asians, who care far more where you're from or your religion and skin color ;-)
+Dule Savic chomsky also sid this. he openly said europe is more racist to the extent that it almost wiped itsef off the map. however he's an american. us europeans should deal with our problems.
I agree! Many people on these comments have huge ego's and it clouds their opinions. Chomsky just states whats right in front of us. So many people here try to be 'intellectuals' here but just don't understand it.
funny how racism is only concentrated in europe and the us while you have muslims plainly stating that they only like white women.
An unacknowledged wound has no chance of healing.
The degenerate country still hasn't accepted responsibility for it's first sin. Who knows when it will even begin to really tackle the second sin of slavery/racism.
You Believed Me maybe when actual grievances and solutions are articulated?
A scab one keeps picking at, same.
@@imavileone7360 Slavery was not caused by racism. It's labor exploitation first and foremost. The roots of slavery are caused by an elite class denying workers basic human rights and proportional compensation for their labor.
Anyone who blames "white supremacy" for slavery is a useful idiot for Capital. Racism is promoted to drive a wedge between poor people of every ethnicity. Anti-Racism, also, a campaign strategy to destroy unions and class consciousness. Why else is it pushed by multinationals and Billionaires like Bezos?
@@FungusMossGnosis racism arises out of white supremacy, therefore your rant is nothing but pure fantasy.
Well he married at 84, any argument about whether he is stupid or not is pointless.
Just ran across this. I have to read "The half was never told" by Edward E. Baptist very interesting topic.
Dam AMERICA the prayers of those you oppressed will not go unanswered , GOD WILL PUNISH THE WRONG DOERS
guess who ran the slave trade?
It always amazes me when I read a comment section and find vitriolic hatred posted there. Like, do you accidentally end up on a vid that is diametrically opposed to your way of thinking or is it on purpose. Everyone has heard of Chomsky and Democracy Now is getting more recognition lately soooo why come to just spew negativity?!?
+hellohey000 it's because intellectually honest people will go out of their way to watch videos that diametrically oppose their beliefs.
Jason Ibanez So why the argument? if I go to a Vid that I am opposed to I am not going to try to poo-poo it. why spend the energy? it just seem like such a waste of time.
hellohey000 why do you read comments?
Jason Ibanez to find like minded ppl
hellohey000 do you make friends with these like minded people?
this country is just sick.
I think we can all agree that CZcams commentators are some of the smartest motha fuckas around!
seriously, I've seen some great thinkers on here! far more frequently than I do in the real world!
Noam Chomsky on Black Lives Matter: Why Won't U.S. Own Up to History of Slavery & Racism?NOV 14, 2016
Fuuuuuhhhk I never thought about it this way.
Well you're not supposed to think about it this way if you've been fully indoctrinated by the American school system.
Understand the man, he has no personal experience with blacks and the hardships that come with it.
Absolutely correct.
Identity politics will lead to all having to take a side eventually. Eventually you demonize a group enough they will take a stand.
Anti-Racism is being used by the same people who used Racism for decades as a strategy to divide and conquer the working classes. Its purpose is always for a privileged minority to dominate the majority, to break their will, solidarity and patriotism.
are you saying that we should sweep the horrors of slavery ...which are still prevelant in socitey right now up to this day...UNDER THE BLOODY CARPTET...BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE DONT LIKE TO FACE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE....that is disgusting racism
@@runthomas What white people today are responsible for slavery? Last time I checked, the only one was Hillary Clinton (see: Libya), and Obama was just as much to blame for that.
@@FungusMossGnosis No white people today are responsible for slavery. But they have massively benefitted from its existence indirectly. Wealth is inherited, property is inherited. People use their wealth and influence to make a better life for their children.
If my father steals a million dollars from your father, and they both die some years later - I will inherit my father's money. Do I owe you something? Absolutely yes. Does that mean I take responsibility for what happened? No.
@@FungusMossGnosis time doesn’t erase all wrongdoing, especially when those who still benefit act obtuse. All people are asking for is the same energy we give to remembering D Day and concentration camps.
consciousness
The history of slavery in the U.S. "is not part of our consciousness?" Really? Except for the myriad books, movies, documentaries, etc. on the subject. And the fact that we're all taught about in school.
sdfg Aside from the fact that slavery is a relative footnote in history books, with the occupiers of the US being framed as "settlers", Chompsky is referring to social and political behaviors that reflect a reluctance to accept the basic facts and severe impact of slavery to present times (in socio-economic and political terms).
I wasn't there...don't blame me or any other white person we weren't there....I'm accountable for what I do...I cannot help what my ancestors did...or didn't do...lets move on how about it...
Downvote for the annotation covering the control buttons
the fact that this kind of thinking is considered “radical” and “progressive” in the US is highly problematic
This is extradordinary: Noam shares history lessons on #MartinLutherKingJR #MLK, #slavery and #HistoryOfSlavery, #MLKDay, & #racism. He puts things into perspective; gotta love That :)
I suggest reading his books, analyze our current situation, reflect, compare the pros and cons, search for counter arguments, and conclude.
we did. the solution is deus vult
Somebody said in a comment below that, "poor people commit more crime."
How do you figure that? Because from what I can tell it's the exact opposite. The wealthy, powerful and influential have always been far more brutal and disruptive to human life than the non-rich/non-powerful. Genocides, wars of aggression, imprisonment, inquisitions, stake burnings, environmental destruction, settler colonialism, regressive taxation, crowd breaking, police brutality, religious punishment, controlling the press, manufactured consent, dismantling core binding values, imposed class systems, odious debt, anti-miscegenation and racist laws, slavery, propaganda (mass lies), etc. The list goes on, and that doesn't even take into account the lists of examples for each act. So no, I think when it comes to brutally terrorizing human beings, it's the affluent who are guilty.
There are 150 million victims of Marxist Leninism in the century since the Bolshevik Revolution. They're the real victims, not Marxist academics and their apologists.
Does anyone know Chomsky's views on reparations?
this is what we need...we need someone like chomsky heading up black lives matter..we need him to decide what moves to make , what questions to ask , where to ask them, whome to ask, we need guidance like this or martin luther...i feel standing in the street shouting black lives matter ...is not really as effective....
that manpower needs to be mobilized under guidance of a great like chomsky.
then we will see better results.
id like to see a police man with a baton come running at chomsky....the whole world would respond
please noam....join us .....and i love the haircut
I'm trying to find ONE issue I agree with Chumpsky on. None yet.
An unacknowledged would has no chance of healing.
+Bruce Bellamy Wound, maybe?
+Hamitic Bloodline wound is correct. Thank you.
reminds me of 'buried feelings are buried alive'
Regardless of spelling, that's a stupid quote. Most wounds heal on their own if we don't keep picking at them or making them worse.
Zed Dravot , you’re speaking of superficial wounds, not deep seated. You’re also referring to a wound that you may not have to deal with. Ignoring something that’s wrong wont make it go away even if you don’t want to face it. I’ve played basketball and football with broken fingers and cuts across my face and hands but a torn meniscus or a hip joint popping out isn’t something you ignore and just “soldier on”. What you lack is perspective and empathy, which is also a “wound”
You may be suffering also and have just have not faced it. The two illnesses: many white people still acting like superior “masters” and many black people still living in fear and hopelessness. Both living in the dark mentality of this country’s past. Neither want to address or “acknowledge” it. Peace.
So many of the comments below totally ignore the point he's making. Its as if they can't hear...... which in its self makes his point. Enjoy the fruits of an ugly ideology..... continue to uphold it with your "god given" sense of superiority.
Selective denial is a true talent.
Enjoy, as the country self destructs, and goes up in flames. Like spoiled children, if you can't have it all for yourself?........ You'll probably just destroy it.
the main problem with the BLM movement so far is the lack of sober and measured articulation of the programme. it's too emotionally charged and needs to take care as the right wing charge that blacks murdering blacks is not getting the same level of attention and condemnation is really doing damage to the movement. wherever it's proponents condemn the white man (as though the actions of any one cop or the justice system itself is owned solely by the white race), whenever there is anti-social behaviour, and wherever there are emotionally charged arguments ill-equipped to deal with what are fairly easily toppled charges from the right the movement is damaged. there is a platform here to build a program which outlines mechanisms behind the prison industrial complex which must be challenged. but we don't do that without accepting responsibility for degenerative behaviour, the drunkenness, the violence, the gangland culture, all of these things let slip the moral foothold BLM should have in the eyes of many and not without some reason.
I just missed the part where he discusses BLM
it keeps getting worse lmao
"Young and not so young people of color", :) Old Amy is speaking. If you're white, you have no skin color, you're neutral, and if you're black, you have a skin color.
She meant to say "males of any colour".
Has Noam Chomsky ever been affected by black aggression? Has he ever been truly poor? I don’t think so. Please, don’t speak about something unless you truly understand it.
This is so true
I commend Chomsky for speaking on these issues.
It's honestly sad because even as a Black person, growing up in White America I became so blind to our history and the core of what is going on in our society.
I think about this so much these days. I’m in my 20s and realized that I was never taught much about what colonization really did or what slavery was really like…and I grew up in southern CA. I cannot imagine what they must be teaching kids in the south 😳
@@fibonaccisequins4637 Did you learn who the first documented slave owner was in the US?
Did you learn how slaves were sold by other "Africans"?
Did you learn how Native Tribes of America also kept slaves?
Did you learn that while it was common place for a slave to be Black that there were other ethnicities who were enslaved?
Did you learn about the history of various countries outlawing slavery and the timeline for such?
Did you learn the political party who opposed the abolishment of slavery was unanimously of the Democrats?
Did you learn the greatest political party who opposed new policies secured during the rights movement of the 60's were Democrats?
Did you learn that the KKK was founded by Democrats?
Did you learn that Biden's greatest mentor (his words) was from the time when a politician was the primary recruiter for the KKK?
Did you learn welfare was designed as a trap for poor and impoverished Blacks to keep them dependent on the Democrat party (Johnson's words, not mine).
I suspect not. Conservative values are not racist. Racism has no boundary. The system we are in today was orchestrated by Democrats to secure power through ignorance. Then we grow up, ask questions that differ from what we've been told, and share facts that many would rather not know.
@@duacot6633 Did you learn who the first documented slave owner was in the US?
If you’re referring to Anthony Johnson…
“It would be impossible for Johnson to be in any photo, given Louis Daguerre invented photography in the 1800s. The “earliest extant American portrait photo”, taken in 1839, is of a white man, as seen here at the Library of Congress and PBS says “no known portraits of Johnson exist”.
“The photo is of Lewis Hayden. Hayden escaped slavery in Kentucky and then “sheltered and assisted many freedom seekers” along with his wife in their “preeminent Underground Railroad safe house” in the 1800s. He also recruited Black soldiers to fight in the Civil War and is believed to be the first African-American employee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
I’m not sure why people bring this up. Even if this were true…how does it change anything I’ve stated? Not to mention the number of slaves who had to buy back their family members after they ran away themselves.
Did you learn how slaves were sold by other "Africans"?
What relevance does that have to do with race relations in the United States of America? I truly do not understand why people bring this up lmao no one has ever denied it and its not surprising. But it has absolutely no bearing on the political and racial climate in the US.
Did you learn how Native Tribes of America also kept slaves?
No, I didn’t. However, I have researched this on my own. Yes, they adopted chattel slavery from white settlers, not to mention some other tribal traditions of “replacing” a loved one with a captive. That absolutely should be covered in CRT courses in school as well, alongside the discussion of all the broken peace treaties between Indigenous people and Americans, including genocides committed against them, including cultural genocide.
Did you learn that while it was commonplace for a slave to be Black that there were other ethnicities who were enslaved?
Yes…although chattel slavery is relatively unique, in comparison to indentured servitude. This should be taught as well; everything should be laid out on the table…dissected and discussed. I’m not a narcissist who is solely concerned about how race and class relations affect me or “my people”. I care about the people, period. This includes white people in poverty who also suffered after the failed “reconstruction” era following Lincoln’s death.
Did you learn about the history of various countries outlawing slavery and the timeline for such?
Yes, I did. I’ve also researched this more thoroughly on my own time as well. However, I do think the situation in the states is unique in the sense that it is one of the only countries (as far as I know) that brought the slaves to their own country, not to mention how poorly they dealt with the slaves’ eventual emancipation. The French and the British are also absolutely complicity in genocide, imperialism, and revisionism of history. In terms of slavery and colonialism, however, they typically had colonies outside of their own territory. It’s still horrible and a history that should be discussed, but that is one reason why there is a relatively different type of racial climate in America based on the history of events.
Did you learn the political party who opposed the abolishment of slavery was unanimously of the Democrats?
Oh boy. Why do so many people say this as if its some kind of “gotcha”? At the time, the democratic party as we know it today was the republican party. That is an oversimplification, but the same people who wave confederate flags today…are not descendants of the republicans of the Lincoln era. That doesn’t make any sense.
“Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt won reelection that year on the strength of the New Deal. This was a set of reforms designed to help remedy the effects of the Great Depression, which the FDR Presidential Library and Museum described as: "a severe, world -wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Thursday," October 24, 1929." The reforms included regulation of financial institutions, the founding of welfare and pension programs, infrastructure development and more. It was these measures that ensured Roosevelt won in a landslide against Republican Alf Landon, who opposed these exercises of federal power.
So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.”
The confederacy was mainly compromised of southern democrats or “the Dixiecrats” as they were known at the time. Do you think that the republicans in the south who talk about their great great great grandfather who fought for the confederacy…were related to someone who could be compared to a modern-day democrat? Now to get to the rest of your questions concerning the Democrats…
Did you learn the greatest political party who opposed new policies secured during the rights movement of the 60's were Democrats?
I’m a socialist. I feel like you’re assuming I’m a democrat or a liberal…but no. The democratic party is entirely responsible for the state of this country as well. I’m not sure why so many Americans break the country into this weird modern day civil war where it’s “Republicans vs Democrats”. No. It’s the American people versus politicians who do not care about any of us. What you said is true…but I think it is relevant to note that those were Southern Democrats who would today be aligned with the modern Republican party. However, none of this negates my point about history being taught honestly in schools.
“As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s and ’60s, the federal government passed a number of civil rights bills, four of which were named the Civil Rights Act.
Of the four acts passed between 1957 and 1968, Republicans in both chambers of Congress voted in favor at a higher rate than Democrats in all but one case. Republicans often had fewer total votes in support than Democrats due to the substantial majorities Democrats held in both the House and Senate.
During this period, the South was a Democratic stronghold that consistently resisted the civil rights movement.
In 1956, many Southern members of Congress signed the “Southern Manifesto,” voicing their opposition to the ruling in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. Democrats were geographically divided on matters of civil rights, while Republicans largely represented non-Southern states and were more unified.”
Did you learn that the KKK was founded by Democrats?
See above.
Did you learn that Biden's greatest mentor (his words) was from the time when a politician was the primary recruiter for the KKK?
I don’t know anything about that but…I graduated high school in 2011 so that wouldn’t really be considered part of the “history” curriculum at that point haha although…I’m not sure that this has to do with what I’ve said either? One more time…I am a socialist. Biden is center right and doesn’t reflect my views. He represents the status quo. Something I am vehemently against. I don’t know if that is true, haven’t fact checked it, but I honestly would not be particularly surprised.
@@duacot6633 Con't:
Did you learn welfare was designed as a trap for poor and impoverished Blacks to keep them dependent on the Democrat party (Johnson's words, not mine).
I am pro welfare and benefits, but I don’t think that is enough to fix the situation in the states. I have not fact checked that either, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he said that. Again, why do you assume I am “pro Democrats”? Johnson was horrible and complicit in war crimes (Operation Rolling Thunder). As if they haven’t also contributed to or sat by idly while human rights abuses have taken place in the US, or as if several of them were not for the Iraq war or as if I’m not aware that Obama participated in dropping bombs on the middle east as well? The only American politician who MIGHT be “clean” so to speak is Jimmy Carter, but I haven’t done enough research on him yet.
I suspect not. Conservative values are not racist. Racism has no boundary. The system we are in today was orchestrated by Democrats to secure power through ignorance. Then we grow up, ask questions that differ from what we've been told, and share facts that many would rather not know.
I don’t believe that conservative values are inherently racist, but I do believe that they have been used against you and other working-class people to further the agenda of the very rich and powerful. The system we are in was orchestrated by the American Government and the CIA. I don’t want this to be any longer than it already is…but I hope you stop buying into this “us vs them” mentality when it comes to “republicans vs democrats”. I want the history of race, class relations, American’s intervention into foreign countries, their foreign policy, their hypocrisy regarding the Iraq war, how they were complicit in creating the Taliban and ISIS and how this all dates back to the 50s…when the used and supported authoritarian means to further their own goals and win The Cold War.
This has been going on since the days of JFK. He may have wanted to secure more civil rights for Americans…but when it comes to foreign policy? He was no better than most politicians. This is not about red vs blue. Do not fall for this, please. Unless you are part of the 1%, you and I are in the same boat. Well, not exactly because I left America, but my family is still there. They’re in it with you and I encourage you to investigate “Operation Jakarta”, “Operation Condor” and other declassified CIA documents. These are not conspiracy theories…they are documented historical facts. I just want people to learn the truth of how corrupt the US (and several other European and imperialist countries) is and how complicit they have been in the pain and suffering of not only the Third World…but of the American people as well.
@@fibonaccisequins4637 i grew up as a Welfare Recipient. Was embarrassing. My parents used to steal power from neighbor's. We we're regularly evicted and rarely stayed at one place more than a year during my teens. Even lived along a local river for a year during highschool yeats. Best thing through all this was the free school lunches, i looked forward to this daily. Drugs and alcohol were the contributing factors. My immediate family is White but my extended family is more brown. I belive welfar can be a trap although it has its usefulness.
Some are saying that anti-racist means anti-white, but what's your point. In America, and most places in the world, racism is a colloquial term for oppressive white hegemony.
No.
The slavery was on us Indians who have been reclassified as negros, black and now African Americans. We're none of those labels we're the Indians not Native Americans but the Indians. This is what's be hidden in plain sight, we are taking our Indian title back. This is who we are, the Indians, whites from North Africa now called Europe today meet when they came to America on those ships, we were taught that they where pilgrims that's so far from the truth, spies more like it. They met my Indian ancestors now called blacks and African Americans. We're Indians not Native Americans but Indians.
And the legacy continues. The question is what are we going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. Why would the oppressor want to do good by the people they oppress? Talk and no action is just talk. Give a solutionthat is just and fair to black people in fact let black people take their own justice. Do for selves, walk away from your oppressor.
These things go against the great nation nationalist con.
i think some people miss the point. yes slavery was over at the time, but think. think about the time period that was while you have freed slaves you still had high discrimination. what jobs were offered to slaves at that time, sharecropping, why because the freed slaves really couldn't do anything they had no rights what so ever. sharecropping was like going back to an abusive relationship, because you really had no way out. freed slaves had so many laws against them that they had no choice. years later even after those laws were canceled out their was Jim crow laws. so again think most people cant read or write, nobody had a proper job or education that most whites had. so with that your already at a disadvantage, your at the bottom of the totem pole. also it is true many immigration from Italy, Ireland,etc were miss treated, but not as bad as blacks. at a point in time the Irish were classified as black, they didn't want to be associated with blacks whatsoever, so in New York their were riots in which some Irish attacked some blacks(hanging and setting them on fire). this was during the time of the war. The Irish felt like why should we have to fight for blacks when were 1.not black, 2. just got here(immigrants), and 3.i don't care about blacks. The Irish wanted to be treated as white.
Slavery being a huge source of America's wealth and privilege is overstated as Thomas Sowell explains in Race and Culture. The South was an impoverished region after slavery. The more industrial North and West became centers of American wealth. Additionally, the United States and Western Civilization was the only civilization that officially ended slavery. We, the United States, emancipated the slaves unlike other civilizations.
Another claim Chomsky made that we have not owned up to our past. What bullshit. The fact of the matter is that Slavery was a universal institution. It is not to say that to was a moral wrong. It certainly was. But we have made more amends to it than any other civilization that has been there. If you read Thomas Sowell's book Race and Culture he mentions that during the times of Islamic Slavery the Arabs enslaved the Africans. Eventually this followed with a racist sentiment to Blacks amongst the Arabs. This is very much parallel to American Slavery which laid the foundation of anti-Black racism in America. What has the Islamic world done in terms of redressing the problem or acknowledging their past? Nothing. It was in fact Britain that went all around the world leading the crusade against Slavery.
Now coming back to the point about America redressing and acknowledging its past. America has done so. Ever since the 1940s Blacks have made great economic gains. Politically they also have in the post-Civil Rights Era. Particularly, the Civil Rights Movement has created an establishment which has advocated for the interests of Blacks in America. For example, in the realm of education reforms have ranged from busing, charter schools, and increased funding. Of course it is still an issue which still needs to be solved. But the very fact that this country takes so much effort to do this shows that we are different from other societies which have oppressed its minorities. What have African nations said to the Indians it subjected to expulsion and discrimination? Eastern Europe to its Jews? Or South East Asian nations to its ethnic Chinese? Islamic nations for oppression of Christians and Jews under Ottoman rule? That's right, nothing.
Furthermore, almost all American History textbooks acknowledge that the past history of slavery and discrimination. Not that many other countries acknowledge this.
i love chomsky.....this man needs to be heard.....read his books people....he really understands what is going on and just spits out the truth...love it or hate it...not only that..but everything he says you can check out...he cites all his books.
Neither have children. btw slavery was stopped what 170 years ago in the USA? This is now, and there slavery in your phone, in the middle east, and there is the caste system and the genocide of gays and trans in Palestine. What about that?
*"Why Won't U.S. Own Up to History of Slavery & Racism?"* says the American virtue signaller.
...... so much evil is done by this country, what a terrible day it'll be when the same evil comes back around.
I like Norm Chomsky. I wish he would like Jill Stein more. The Green Party could use his support.
Robert Adame - I doubt Jill Stein is actually worth his endorsement.
Intellectual dishonesty...the Southern states which relied on slavery/cotton were way more impoverished than the industrial north. The U.S became the world's biggest economy in the 1885, well after slavery ended. And the U.S had a diversity of industries like steel and oil and then machines like cars, it wasn't slavery produced cotton that gave the U.S it's wealth.
thing is .....there are only about 3 books, left that chomsky hasnt yet read......
this guy has so much material.....you just cant argue with him...i bet his wife is either totally not interested , or absolutely counting her lucky stars to have such a great info box sat right next to her
"Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What do you mean by seizing the whole earth; because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor."
--QUOTED BY NOAM CHOMSKY
What does this tell us?
Terrorism is the war of the poor.
And war is the terrorism of the rich.
Definition of white guilt.
Racism is as Amerikkkan as apple 🍎 pie.. 😀
How can a country begin to tackle the notion of class division by racism when it still rejects to take responsibility for it's first and original sin?
By American you must mean white
Apple pie is English...
of course there is racism in america. ever wonder why there is no discussion about racism in japan, china or russia? because there are hardly any ehnical majorities they can discriminate.
It’s problematic that this is considered abstract/progressive thinking in the US. This is fact.
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' make something out of yourself .
Sorry , typo .
It is best to refer to history. Reflect back to distracting the profitability of Woolworth on Greensboro North Carolina in the 60s, and disruptions in Alabama. Economic limitations always get people attention. Black Americans must realize that to solve almost any problem, fix yourselves first. Society pays careful attention to profit restrictions. Spend your earnings wisely; African Americans obtain enough earned income to make a substantial remark in this country. Study Black history which is American history, and all of the movements which did impact America, ALL of them. And, stop responding to the racist, and ridiculous comments people state. Even if you were scholars, some will have something negative to assert. Stop complaining to people who don't care!!!!! Hide your agenda, and do for yourselves. With all of the issues Black people face, America fears a day when you rectify your affairs...seriously, many don't want that. Remember, the same people against have just as many problems: abortions, out of wedlock children, pyschotic tendencies, pyschological problems, incest, uncured STDs and especially drug addiction as well as killing there own family members.
nothing but fax
Black olives matter
Lord McSatan Yes. Yes they do.
A racist just called me Opie what's is that like a N word?
Lol, r/thathappened
All the white people on this video: *cries*
nice to see them standing up for themselves for once. it's normal and healthy to favour your own kind
chomsky in the thumbnail looks just like soros touching his fingers.
I get chomsky's angle and point of view. But has he ever said anything good about America and its history?
I’m a fan of his and he has been critical to my intellectual curiosity, but he essentially believes the US was a terrible experiment for the world and that it’s been nothing but genocide since Columbus.
@@balladofthebroken7569 ,
Then how amazing it is that Chomsky has lived his entire life, and had such a successful career, and become a multi-millionaire, himself, in such a, ' terrible ' place, as the US!
Amazing Indeed! smh
Recently on Turner Classics they played Gone With The Wind, and my sister was explaining to my niece of the plight of poor Scarlet, see how it works?She didn't mention Scarlets wealth and upbringing, derived from slavery.All the excuses(no one in my family owned slaves, etc ad nauseum), and the comments below only illustrate the depth of ignorance and stupidity of my fellow Americans, the apologists for Thomas Jefferson, the racisim of Woodrow Wilson, and Oprah, racism doesn't vanish with new generations, it merely is passed on.So, bring it on throw your comments at me I await thee.
There are huge numbers of black people who are successful in america. The causes of the problem today with certain Black communities are mutifactorial, including historical grievances. One of them however, is the dependency that has developed. Whenever people do not develop a sense of personal responsibility and independence, they will not thrive. Those that do will have a good chance at success in the US.
No one should ever wait for the government to fix them.
And if you are not among the class that "thrives" expect the police to trample your rights. That phenomenon is not limited to black people, but whether a community is "thriving" or not should not determine the degree to which they are treated fairly by the police. Black Lives Matter is not asking for "success" for anyone, but justice for crimes committed against them by government employees.
wulf67 I have seen the actions of BLM. Almost the first thing they did was get an innocent man to resign and fake a car incident.
What most of the inner cities need is more policing, not less, and like all communities, black folks need strong families,lack of gangsterism and a drive to be independent.
You dont get it.
lifestraight don't get what?
adstanra It's not about waiting for government.
Bulls eye as always!
"the sky is falling! the sky is falling!"
yeh. it was......
All we've done is tell black people they're victims, when they aren't. Do they realize how damaging it is to tell somebody you have no chance the worlds against you? These people are dangerous.
I couldn't get the study but I did get a bunch of reviews of the study. Chromsky is awesome. I rarely see right wing figures citing this valuable information.
hello?
Why focus on an issue that has been handled?
Oh wow, look it's the racist
how has it been handled?
I'd like to have a conversation with the downvoters.
Here is the issue. For starters, thanks to what occurred back then, Africans get to live in one of the greatest countries in the world. simply working a minimum wage job makes you extremely rich compared to anyone from Africa.
But saying you deserve millions of dollars is absolutely absurd. That's like saying burger flippers are why McDonalds is so great. No, it's the minds behind it all. It's the inventors, the politicians, the people who came to this country and made it what it is. Do you truly believe if they didn't have slaves, they wouldn't have turned this into America still? Bull shit. They paid for the slaves.
Does anyone want to know why Americans bought African slaves? Any ideas? It's because African tribes were nearly the only ones at that time still willing to sell their own into slavery. All western countries banned slavery of their own race, but African tribe leaders were still extremely happy to sell their own people. You want money? Ask them. Want to know what happened in Europe when slavery was outlawed? The government gave the slave owners money! They gave them the value of the slaves.
But you think you deserve something? You have never been a slave. Do you have any idea how many Irish were slaves right around the same time by Arab countries? How many, not long before? How about Hitler? Are Jews asking for money from Germany? It doesn't even matter because not one person alive today has ever been a slave. You deserve nothing. And guess what? Any idea what blacks did when they were freed from their slave owners?? They bought fucking slaves. Plenty of blacks owned slaves in America.
All it boils down to is that instead of getting up and working to make something for yourself, you want it free. Free free free. Everyone owes you. Well guess what? No... They don't.
No one wants to admit that the black man enslaved hisself but its true...they like to leave that out of his story class
this take is hot garbage
lol fools
I'm Scotch Irish, most of my relatives came after slavery. Also my ancestors were sold into slavery. I do not owe anyone an apology because I had nothing to do with the oppression of non whites. Finally the Constitution is the rule of law and it gives all citizens the same rights and equal protection under the law. The only problem I can see was the Anti Crime Laws that were passed in the 1990's. It gave harsh sentences to people that committed minor offences, most of which happened to be black or latino. It lowered crime but at a cost that is still being realized. People need to stop using history as an excuse, its done move on.
We had slavery here for a hundred years under the Constitution and Jim Crow laws for another hundred years under the Constitution. Police trample the Constitution now every day.
Easy for you to say, arrogant, privileged, ignorant and losing your own humanity by denying the on-going disenfranchisement of your human brother. If you were abandoned by those who you are supposed to trust in your society, police, courts, and your very life or the life of one you lived was taken from you, while the citizens unaffected by their race debate whether or not it actually happened (being black in America is not rename as having had some slave experience undetectable by race in your own lineage - it is racism entirely based on race, which led to arguments that there is something fundamentally less human, savage, about the race, much as you and others assert now: there's something wrong with their culture. What is savage is to not look when your brothers are brutalized in plain sight, because you. Can't handle the truth of the fact that it really is because they're black.
+David McGarry that was for Steven Kellog.
I'm black I trust the courts, the police, white people, I'm a fan of Fredric Douglas, James Baldwin, Madame CJ Walker, Garvey, and all the black abolitionist who weren't allowed to fight for the liberation of their enslaved brothers. But you my friend if you want to help blacks, spend your time tutoring some in the inner cities, teach English in St. Louis. Do something other than demanding white america to apologize for their privilege. Whites from the north came a built schools immediately the south The American Missionary Association. Be the change.
You can't say "move on" and then reference a bill that disproportionately affected black people as early as the 1990's.
Nobody is asking for an apology. I do not want your apology. You should not have to give one. All a vast, vast, majority of us are asking for is to admit and talk about all of the decisions, bills, riots, and instances in American history that have had huge negative effects on brown people that we can still see today.
Chomsky start with yourself , give all your money and your house to first black person you see .
out in the streets in the real world where I choose to live racial tolerance has never been better. it's sure as hell better than it was in the 90's and I can't stand how people just want to keep beating the same tired old drum. btw, turning those that are criminals into victims will only make the situation worse in the long run.
A man too informative for the “news” what an industry.
Wealth doesn't equal oppression, just as prosperity doesn't equal privilege.
There's a history of racism and oppression in the United States. That's all there is to it. It still exists today. Stop making excuses and do something about it. Protest, listen to what people, (especially people of color) have to say about it. Do you care about stopping violence, prejudice and injustice or not? It's a complex issue. If you really care you should be trying to expand the conversation not shut it down, with a body count competition.
_Protest, listen to what people, (especially people of color) have to say about it._
Oh we listen (hard not to when they are burning down buildings, stopping traffic and shutting down airports like fucking assholes) we simply don't agree with their reasoning. Does having a difference of opinion make us racist? In the eyes of the SJW, yes it does. We are forced to accept their narrative or be labeled bigots, and we're sick of it.
This White Man is NOT GUILTY!!
Lol this is so much crap. Stuck in the past, spewing rhetoric, ruining lives .
Life is short, better forget this crap and get out there and something out of yourself if you find this fascinating.
Let it go, get a life !
im black and i will not under any circumstance forget this.....i would rather die....this is what is ruining society today....
we must bring these issues to the forefront of democracy,,
we must open the box, and ensure everyone takes responsibilty for what htey have done and continue to do
then we can tear down the fabric of society and rebuild it to a place where we are all equal
and we can slaughter anyone who doesnt want that.
Jew
Noam is an expert racebaiter.
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