[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

[Carrol Cox]

On 9/28/2011 9:44 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:09 AM, // ravi wrote:
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>> For we know as a fact that racism is a term and concept that people find politically useful. Using the concept, they describe the problem with clarity, they organise under a banner, they define means to identify/measure the problem, and at times even solve it. Reed is in fact aware of this, for he acknowledges (IIRC) that “antiracism” was one of the pillars of the civil rights movement
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> Exactly not. The civil rights movement was about repealing Jim Crow laws and achieving voting and other civil rights for black Americans. It had very specific targets. The whole "antiracism" thing came later, after those things were achieved.
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> Adolph has written this many times, I've quoted it many times, I've had him say it in interviews many times - yet people just can't hear it. What's the problem?

If he has written it, then he has been spitting on the graves of 
Malcolm, of King, Stokely Carmichael, of the murdered Fred Hampton and 
Mark Clark (and other Panthers), of the recently murdered Troy Davis, 
and of the millions of lives that are still be snuffed out by the 
continuing  racism at the core of u.s. culture.

Carrol