Holocaust and Denial in the Americas
29 second Preview/Promo Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo Part TWO
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us we may be more open to an unflinching look at genocide and denial in America. Churchill compares the treatment of North American Indians to historical instances of genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Turks against Armenians, as well as Nazis against the Poles and Jews. With one important difference. This genocide is unparalleled in term of the size of population and in the way it was sustained through time.
In the first of two parts Churchill sets out to prove that the numbers of how many Indians lived North of the Rio Grande were cooked – not one but about fifteen million. Part TWO ends with an extraordinary statement on the importance of knowing history: “We got an entire society here that, with its own collaboration, quells certain knowledge that would disrupt its very convenient scenarios of what it wants to be by denying what it has been… And so we punch holes into the domes of false reality that have been constructed to shield the society from an understanding of itself. All this in order to get to the subliminal circumstances which can motivate people to tangibly, finally, oppose the order of things that we encounter in such a way as they can be transformed. I think the key to the whole of America lies right here – in its refusal to understand itself is the key to it’s refusal ultimately to change itself. And change is that which we most desperately need.”
The program begins with a brief update on very recent news (September 2012) on Churchill’s losing fight to return to his teaching job as professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part ONE click HERE
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO click HERE
