VID: A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn

Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
Art by Mike Konopacki
Video editing by Eric Wold

VID: Howard Zinn - The Interpretation of History

Playwright, historian and political activist Zinn talked about the interpretation of history and how our understanding of it affects the future. He discussed getting personal experience of the world and questioning teachers and other institutional authority. He also talked about income disparity in the U.S. and the failure to alleviate poverty. Following his prepared remarks, he took questions from the audience.

The youtube video is actually cut off (but allows comments) however the full version is available @ http://www.c-span.org/video/?78710-1/historical-interpretation

IMG: The New Jim Crow

There are more African Americans under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began." - Michelle Alexander 

QUOTE: Richard Nixon - "The whole problem is really the blacks"

"The whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." said Richard Nixon. "Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it."

-John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.

Reference: NY Times - Haldeman Diary Shows Nixon Was Wary of Blacks and "Jews"

OP: The reason Africa is poor is because America is rich - nfm

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