[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 28 09:59:04 PDT 2011


Cde Cox:


> 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.

I didn't want to go here, but I'm seriously pissed off: it amazes me that a white guy from the cornfields could lecture a black guy (in absentia) who's spent years of his life in New Orleans (where he has lots of family), Atlanta, and South Carolina on "the continuing racism at the core of u.s. culture." This is exactly the sort of empty but ego-inflating essence of these jeremiads against 'racism."

Doug



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