Howard Zinn: "I Wish Obama Would Listen to MLK"-1/2

[NoDestinyLive4Now]

@MAZDAKPRODUCTION don't put Ahmadinejad in the same category as Dr. King.

[MAZDAKPRODUCTION]

history will entail MLK & Ahmadinejad are the real peace prize winners

[eflaspo]

Obama is still better than the alternative.

[npl12]

I'm reading Zinn's book "A Peoples History of The United States" and I am amazed at all the things that were left out of usual history books, that he included and I find him amazing and he was a great Historian. R.I.P Howard Zinn

[xioNclan12]

@npl12 dude look he is a ACCLAIMED historian he has his own spinn on it and if so were did he get his facts from ? and is this book put down as real or just his view is it true ? tell me that

[niccoledmeredith]

you will be missed

[mhaze210]

R.I.P....legend / hero.

[0bamaDrama]

American history is being distorted - essentially being re-written by the radical left, with the help of Hollywood (for affect). That is their agenda - to destroy our history, our country & our culture - and turn it into what? If we do not learn from the mistakes of the past, WE are doomed to repeat them! Success often comes from failures - we can't change the PAST but we can change the FUTURE. We need to get rid of this "victim mentality." It serves no purpose. We need to grow up!

[ezerarias]

Wow. You're wrong. Zinn doesn't even even use the help of Hollywood, instead he uses other parts of history to show an unbiased one, rather than a "victor's history".

Go study.

[ihatehorry]

You really missed the point. He even said that they aren't teaching victimization, they're teaching people fighting back. And how are you going to learn the mistakes of the past without learning what the past was?

[johnowensjr1234]

American history has already been distorted and you have bought into the mainstream view of it. Listening to and acknowledging marginalized voices is not only moral but it is a responsibility of being a good american. you have to understand the power structure and how it works because you are clearly ignorant about it

[poopstreek]

Too bad the left used to stand for something. Now the Democrats are the very fascists they used to despise.

[ihatehorry]

Don't confuse the Democrats with the left.

[tanvo93]

@ihatehorry perfect :)

[zackawful]

@poopstreek, Democrats have always been people to be despised by the left. The Democratic Party was the party of slaveholders and militant western expansionists, of Jim Crow, of WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, of Japanese internment, etc, etc.

The Party's role since the 1890's has been to co-opt true leftist movements like the populist movement, the IWW, the American Communist Party, the Civil Rights movement, and the anti-Iraq-War movement, in order to blunt those movements' power.

[rwcbanzai]

Your 1st book #1 historically. Waiting for your "Peoples History of Corporate Cannabalim & Corporatism"

[rring88]

I have become disillusioned about American History especially the stuff that has happened in the last 50 years mainly by listening to Chomsky.

I still don't understand why we killed 1/3 of the Vietnamese.

[paganiniGOGO]

same here, I just stumbled upon the small book Media Control, which shocked me.

I wonder if all those celebrities would read something from Chomsky.

[jaimesandoval1988]

They might read them but would not act up against those who pay their checks. Love Zinn and Chomsky.

[Devr0ss]

@jaimesandoval1988 add john Perkins to that list

[stirrrrrr]

NC explained in his book, based on leaked pentagon reports

the goal is to punish the Vietnamese for going in an independent and nationalistic path and to intimidate others to follow

if the war aim is indeed the above, US actually won the Vietnam war: Vietnam may never recover and will be a model for anyone

[oldhacks]

a book that Howard Zinn said "should be in every high school" is "lies my teacher told me". i recommend it for anyone who wants to study great americans.