Posted on 09/26/2015 8:28:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Stating flatly that the oppression black slaves faced has not changed in 400 years, progressive hero Noam Chomsky said that the time is now to pay descendants reparations for using Africans to build up the U.S. economy.
Asked at a Harvard University forum about supporting reparations, he said: "Would I? Very much so. Not just African Americans. We ourselves didn't own slaves, but we -- me -- are rich and privileged because of the torture of blacks for centuries. And yes we own them reparations," said Chomsky, the Institute Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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“The call for reparations [for descendants of slaves] is very
legitimate.” – Noam Chomsky. #ChomskyForum
6:26 PM - 21 Sep 2015
And the famed scholar wouldn't end there, he said at the forum this week sponsored by the university's Institute of Politics. He suggested that any people or country the U.S. abused should be repaid.
"The same with the remnants of Native Americans. Same with countries that we've destroyed. What about Iraq? I mean we've devastated Iraq, killed hundreds of thousands of people, generated millions of refugees, created sectarian conflict that's destroying the place. Is it our responsibility? Sure," said Chomsky.
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"I think the call for reparations is very legitimate," he said, adding that blacks still face similar oppression.
"In fact, it goes back 400 years, the first slaves came here in 1620 roughly, it's 400 years, very little has changed here, fundamentally. Of course, the nature of the oppression has changed dramatically," he said.
Chomsky makes $30,000 a weekend speaking at universities.
One weekend he spoke on Friday evening at George Washington U in Washington DC, American U on Saturday and Sunday at Georgetown U.
Each time collecting over $10,000 from the student fund.
Chomsky rakes it in the university speechmaking circuit.
Nice racket if you can get in on it.
Commie pawn I.F. Stone sobbed to his readers that he was an “independent” heroic author who lived solely off his writing and needed his readers’ donations
while he was collecting a regular paycheck from the KGB.
That makes two of us. If he loves his communism so much, what the hell is he doing living in America? If he is going to talk the talk, he should be walking the walk. There are plenty of communist countries where he could be living.
He had a chimpanzee named after him, Nim Chimpsky. Unless I have it backwards and he was named after the chimp.
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