>> amnesia? well, we have a memory cut in pieces.d i write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what i call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. but the human rainbow had been mutilated by a choose no -- machismo, racism, militarism, and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, are possible greatness, are possible duty. -- our possible beauty. amy: eduardo galeano, acclaimed uruguayan writer and journalist, speaking on democracy now! in 2013. galeano died on monday in montevideo. we will come back to more about interviews with him in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: eduardo mateo, uruguayan songwriter. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we continue our look back at the life of eduardo galeano who died on monday at the age of 74. he was author of many books, including "open veins of latin america." amy: he was a major editor in uruguay. after military to

when you get amnesia, you forget things. think about historical amnesia. you are just going to forget something you don't want to remember. in gettysburg, two weeks of activities will occur. some are purely celebratory like the big reenactment. other occurrences over the course of two weeks involve dedications of monuments this one. this is the state monument for georgia. when i mentioned gettysburg is the most monuments it of the civil war battlefields, there are over 1300 of them, the vast majority on the gettysburg battlefield are union monuments. remember driving up and down cemetery ridge. union monuments go up around the 25th anniversary of the battle. the south not wanting to commemorate defeat. gettysburg is in a union state. they start to put monuments at the centennial, the 1960's. you will see confederate state monuments along seminary ridge. this one goes up in 1961, this is georgia. these are occasions where northerners and southerners will come to the gettysburg battlefield. they will dedicate or rededicate monuments, and then they blend civi

and the new justices and just like in private without stokely carmichael is the kind of historical amnesia. the 55% of african-americans did not support doctor king on vietnam and it's the part that caught me off guard. it's america rot across-the-board. there is a struggle. it is a struggle over where to go. >> i know the difference between white and black. it's been absolutely. >> and big money and all of the assets to power and i want to determine what i say. it's what we need in this present moment we have a lot of people for example. they talk about speaking truth to power but they don't want to speak truth to the present hour. it is aggressive and prophetic. so first of all define the radical king in terms of the text itself is the radical king head and in plain sight in the word and the wisdom to pull up or pull out a fugue passage is a text from the more well-known. it's been beyond description in the state capital. this is before the king holiday. i just want them to talk sociology and more house in 1928. but also, talk to because thomas greatest man from princeton in 1911 turned

. >> again it has not been amnesia but we have kind of put it out of our minds.s were so scary, not just the bombing. then you remember in the days that followed there was this awful, bunkley, botched getaway where an m.i.t. police officer was gunned down in cold blood and these two brothers allegedly -- we still have to say that -- carjacked a gentleman in his mercy 80's who were trying to get out of town. at that point in time, the whole city just shivered with the fear of where is this going, is this part of a larger fiasco that we do not know about? i remember reporting that night. we went to the hospital early in the morning where the younger brother who survived, the one on trial right now, was taken. we were wondering, dead or alive? there was a doctor that came to the press conference at about 5:00 in the morning. he lives in watertown, where this all occurred. he said i was there reading a book, relaxing for the night. he started to hear the gunshots the chaos. so this literally touched a man who would later be a caregiver for one of these folks. for me,

system we have historical amnesia.y opportunity. one reason the book made a slash is ed emphasize it is way american capitalism, defined as the essence of freedom and national identity is built on free dom. we would not be the great world power that we are without millions of enslaved africans being exploited. we with wouldn't have the wealth that the united states has. we wouldn't have industrialization. we wouldn't is have just charlottesville, but detroit, charlotte, new york. >> when you say we wouldn't have the wealth. if you would like to see, you can look at the existing wealth gap. le the median household wealth for white households being 13 times that of black households. $141,000 to $11,000. you can close the gap but they grow on themselves. is that the argument for reparation? >> i was going to say it's not just individual families. part of the early 24th century reparations movements was to get damages from private corporations. now we have universities that have financially benefitted from slavery. so it's

. >> must be counting on the voters having amnesia. >> reporter: the orinda mayor and state senate candidate steve glazer has been a bart critic since the crippling bart 2013 strikes. >> spending money on pay raises or the union and management. it doesn't make sense. >> why don't they take a cut in salary especially the ceos, supervisors. >> they can just learn to manage their money better. >> how much? that's the operative question. how much? >> reporter: now, that bond is going to take quite a vote and it's going to have to be all through the nine bay area counties. as you know, passing a bond like that could be tough. the thing, when we asked them if it doesn't go, what's the backup plan? they don't have one. in orinda, phil matier, kpix 5. >>> just about everywhere in the bay area rents are skyrocketing. coming up, the drastic action one city is considering to make it stop. >> and a popular hangout blackened by fire early this morning. a neighbor says he saw the danger signs. >> and their job was to get people on board. and get out fast. how these flight attendants turned heroes on the l

you agreed with completely, truly during obama's accelerated evolution he naturally selected for amnesiabut that's not the real outrage. how about this? >> i can't say that our work during this season is comparable but you should try dealing with thousands of people in your backyard on an easter egg roll. after that, you need quiet reflection. particularly because i had some of my nephews, 6 and 4, in my house all weekend. and you need quiet reflection after that. girls are different than boys. >> what? what kind of prehistoric thinking is that? what kind of heterogarbage did he spew? girls are different than boys? since when? need i remind you, mr. president, it's that thinking that keeps girls trapped in their manufactured gender role, a prison of patriarchy designed to deserve the missogynistic hierarchy. what's with calling them girls? so sexist. how genderous. maybe that's a topic for another day. dana, we would fall into the trap if we expressed too much outrage over this because this is perfect -- it's fodder. >> did you see the look on his face? >> yes. >> he knows the entire tim

charlie: they suffer from a kind of amnesia.: when i was talking about getting my flying machine together, this was one of the main problems. i start off with a story that i can express in two or three lines in the abstract. i often cannot find the right way to put it on, the right setting. one of the things i started off with was i wanted a situation where there is a whole community, a nation suffering from some kind of selective memory loss. the nation has to decide, as a nation, do they want to remember everything? maybe there has been something very traumatic buried in the recent past. maybe there was a very good reason for these things being buried. charlie: do you have a point of view on that? kazuo: my only point of view is it is very difficult to generalize. there are situations -- let's take france after the second world war. charlie: good example. kazuo: i don't want to pick on france, but i'm being polite. i'm in the united states and i don't want to talk about any buried giants in american society. i'm sure we can al

now, hey, maybe they all just happened to have amnesia at the same moment.'s something very foul in the public mind now. >> there is. thanks very much to all three of you. next more of our breaking news. the protests in baltimore and in cities across the country. demonstrators chanting no justice, no peace. plus the fate of the six baltimore police officers in freddie gray's death now in the hands of this woman, a young prosecutor four months on the job. will she give protesters what they want? constipated? .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works! mmm mmm live the regular life. financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise they're custom made trains. you can't get any better than that. siemens trains are not your grandparent's technology. they're something that's gonna change the cities we live in today. i find it so fascinating how many people ride this and go to work every single day. i'm

i think part of what you are describing is the kind of historical amnesia for the fact that dr. king was not always well loved within the black community. you cite a remarkable poll from late in his life that says 55% of african-americans did not support dr. king on vietnam and ending poverty and i think it was the handing poverty part that caught me off guard. >> guest: it's true and it's very sad. you have 72% of americans across-the-board and 55% of black people disapprove. you know what whitney young said to brother martin in terms is set back the black freedom movement and martin said what you said make a money in the corporation but it won't get you a foothold in -- black leadership over where to go. martin was saying corporation is not going to dictate what my conscious is. >> host: i know the difference between right and wrong. >> guest: absolutely and all the big money and the thrills and assets to par or is not going to determine what i say. martin was like coal train. he could've been doing my favorite thing for the rest of his career and been a multimillionaire. we a

they have selective amnesia. they just don't like gay people. i wish they would just say that. let me say this. if they want to be like ta, i think they have the right to be like that. i think the bigger problem i have, we as a country or as a state of indiana, can't make it a law. you have the right in this country to be against gay marriage, but it can never be against, it can't put it on the books. that was my biggest problem with this whole thing. >> you really believe the ncaa should have pulled the final four from indiana if this law wasn't changed? >> well, what i said was and i stick by it, they shouldn't get any more final fours or super bowls. chris, let me tell you something. you can be gay, you can be straight, spanish, speak polish, the one thing that always speaks loudest in this country is green. and that's cash. and that's the only thing that people understood about this entire scenario. >> you see no coincidence when the big businesses got involved, whether walmart or arkansas, home based second biggest employer there or the other big names that stepped up incl

>> i'm gonna get you whatever you need for amnesia.ember what i said, if we don't make it, we're not selling it. we all agreed on that. >> tami, you don't think people should have opportunity to buy these things? >> not here. it's all this same [bleep] that they have everywhere. >> i don't, uh--i don't agree with that. >> if we don't make it, we don't sell it. period, end of discussion. i mean, we need this to get done, like, today. >> where are we gonna put it? >> we're gonna liquidate it, but we need to start-- >> but why don't we leave it on the shelves and mark down the pricing? as people come in, we get rid of it that way. >> well, 'cause i don't want to wait till next christmas. >> sort that. >> well, marcus, what are we gonna do with this stuff now? >> sell it. why don't we put up a couple signs? and let's start working on that. >> tami, make up signs. everything's a dollar. >> if we don't make it-- >> we don't sell it. >> everything's a dollar! come on in! >> get all of your souvenirs and save an amazing amount of money. >> how

i think part of what you're describing is a kind of historical amnesia for the fact that dr. king was not always well loved within the black community. you cite a remarkable poll from late in his life that says that 55% about can americans do not support dr. king on vietnam and popular i think it was the poverty for the comic opera guard. >> it's true. it's very sent. the of 72% of americans across the board all colored and 55% of black people disapprove of martin. whitney young said, you're sitting back the black freedom movement. martin said what you say it will not teach too difficult in the kingdom of truth. interest trouble against come within black leadership over where to go. martin was saying corporations are going to dictate what my conscious action is. >> host: i know the difference between right and wrong. >> guest: absolutely. big money and all the thrills and assets of power is not going to determine what i say. martin was like john coltrane. he could could've been doing my favorite thing for the rest of his career, been a multi-multimillionaire. young brothers w

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because i think part of what you're describing is a kind of historical amnesia for the fact that dr. king was not always well loved within the black community. and you cite a pretty remarkel -- remarkable poll from late in his life that says 55% of african-americans did not support dr. king on vietnam and ending poverty. and i think it was the ending poverty that caught me off guard. >> yes, yes. no, it's true, and it's very sad. you've got 72% of americans across the board, all color, and 55% of black people disapproving of martin. you remember what whitney young said to brother martin in terms of you're setting back the black freedom movement, and he said oh, what you said won't get you a foothold in the kingdom of truth. typical intra-struggle against black, within black leadership over where to go. see martin was saying corporations are not going to dictate what my conscious actually is. >> right. i know the difference between right and wrong. >> absolutely. and big money and all of the thrills and access to power are not going to determine what i say. you see martin was like joh