Noam Chomsky Says Ronald Reagan was an ‘extreme racist’

by Cheri Roberts, Challenging the Rhetoric, The Guerilla Media Network

Was former President, Ronald Reagan, a racist? According to inguist and political analyst, Noam Chomsky, he was and policies are designed to further en-slave the “black man”. 

In an interview with GritTV’s, Laura Flanders, Chomsky said,

“African-Americans had about two decades in which they had a shot of entering [American] society. A black worker could get a job in an auto plant, as the unions were still functioning, and he could buy a small house and send his kid to college. But by the 1970s and 1980s it’s going back to the criminalization of black life. It’s called the drug war, and it’s a racist war. Ronald Reagan was an extreme racist — though he denied it — but the whole drug war is designed, from policing to eventual release from prison, to make it impossible for black men and, increasingly, women to be part of [American] society. In fact, if you look at American history, the first slaves came over in 1619, and that’s half a millennium. There have only been three or four decades in which African-Americans have had a limited degree of freedom — not entirely, but at least some.”

With race being in the forfront of today’s news  along with the ever increasing infringements and imprisonments due to America’s so-called, “drug-war”, Chomsky’s analysis could very well be spot-on. What do you think?

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