Noam #Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism - NYTimes.com
▻http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/noam-chomsky-on-the-roots-of-american-racism
... when I read about the dehumanizing acts committed at Abu Ghraib prison, I wasn’t surprised. I recall that after the photos appeared President George W. Bush said that “This is not the America I know.” But isn’t this the America black people have always known?
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Perhaps the most appalling contemporary myth is that none of this happened. (...)
There is also a common variant of what has sometimes been called “intentional ignorance” of what it is inconvenient to know: Yes, bad things happened in the past, but let us put all of that behind us and march on to a glorious future, all sharing equally in the rights and opportunities of citizenry.”