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“[African-Americans] had about two decades in which [they] had a shot at entering society. A black worker could get a job in an auto plant, 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 — and the whole drug war is designed, from policing, to eventual release from prison, to make it impossible for black men and, increasingly, more and more women and Hispanics to be part of society.” — Noam Chomsky

Source: Eric Gray. “Noam Chomsky Discusses Ferguson: “This Is A Very Racist Society; It’s Pretty Shocking.'” Salon. December 11, 2014. http://www.salon.com/2014/12/11/noam_chomsky_discusses_ferguson_this_is_a_very_racist_society_it’s_pretty_shocking/.

“[T]he linguist and political philosopher [Noam Chomsky] lamented to interviewer John Nichols last week that while activism is flourishing in communities throughout the country, there’s no cohesive movement for a more just society.”

Source: Luke Brinker. “Noam Chomsky Blasts The Assault On Labor: ‘‘’Right To Work” Means “Right To Scrounge.”‘” Salon. March 25, 2015. http://www.salon.com/2015/03/25/noam_chomsky_blasts_the_assault_on_labor_right_to_work_means_right_to_scrounge/.