Noam Chomsky videoconference 9 Jan 2015 American civil rights movement … we have all over the United States, even in small towns you have holocaust museums, you have courses in elementary school on holocaust studies, you have a holocaust studies department in the universities. Try to find a museum of African slavery, or courses on what I was just describing- the history of African Americans, the background for the kinds of things you see in Ferguson, try to find that - you wont. Similarly try to find museums of the other major crime of American society & remember that’s Britain, that means British colonists, the other major crime - extermination of the indigenous population to virtually nothing. Again, the same principal that I mentioned before, the holocaust was somebody else’s crime, there wasn’t a lot we could do about it so huge outrage and memories and studies and commemoration and so on. But these other things are our crimes, not only our crimes but the basis for our wealth and privilege.”
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