Posted on 09/02/2020 6:50:44 AM PDT by SJackson
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“If you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are,” proclaims sports commentator Jemele Hill (pictured above), citing Caste, a “masterpiece” of a book by Isabel Wilkerson. Quickly challenged, Hill pushed back that Nazi Germany “learned their systems of genocide by watching America,” and the Nazis “borrowed significantly from American racial laws,” which is why “some Nazi scholars were in America studying racial terror in the South.”
A somewhat different perspective might emerge from a black person who actually lived in Nazi Germany and the United States. Consider, for example, Hans J. Massaquoi, son of a Liberian father and German mother, and author of Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany.
“Hans-Jurgen is a remarkable pupil who has made a good adjustment to school,” his German teacher wrote, “He is unusually talented in reading, writing, drawing, music, and athletics.” Hans is “a born leader who is always willing to help slower classmates,” and “I am expecting good things from him.” Trouble was, as a “non-Aryan” Hans was barred from college but did not let that inhibit his education.
Hans read authors such as James Fennimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cervantes, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Reading became an “indispensable survival tool” against “constant racist attacks.” Hans survived because “unlike Jews, blacks were few in number and relegated to low-priority status.” Hans recalls the Nazis’ Kristallnacht of 1938, when more than 1,000 Jewish places of worship were destroyed, 91 Jews killed and some 30,000 arrested.
Government propaganda hailed Nazi virtue and denounced Communist evil, but Hans found this “a distortion of facts.” The truth was, “in their many bloody clashes for dominance in Germany, the Nazis and Commies were virtually indistinguishable. Both were totalitarians, ever ready to brutalize to crush resistance to their respective ideologies.”
Like many Germans, Hans was a fan of American big-band swing, which the Nazis derided as Negermusick and banned along with American cinema. After the Allied victory, a black American GI asks Hans, “what in the world are you doing here among these Krauts?”
Hans explains that he is German, but soon decamps to Liberia, where his father holds a low opinion of “American Negroes.” On the other hand, Hans finds the black U.S. embassy staffers “refined, articulate” and college educated. When a relative secures Hans a student visa, he’s off to America his own self.
In Harlem, Hans recalled, “I saw neighborhoods peopled by active working-class folks not much different from those in my old Hamburg neighborhood. The only difference was that everyone – from the mailman to the barber to the police man to the garbage collector to the occasional big shot in a Cadillac convertible – was black.” Hans also encounters racism, even in the north.
When white workers walk out after Hans is hired, management tells them they should look for another job. In the 82nd Airborne, a paratrooper asks Hans why he has a picture of a white woman on his shelf. “That woman is my mother,” explains Massaquoi, who knocks the racist to the floor. Overall, however, “we black recruits got on well with our white comrades, and many interracial friendships formed.”
When Hans joins a military band, “we and our white buddies were like peas in a pod.” Further, “our new integrated band not only looked like one harmonious ensemble, but it sounded better than either of the two groups had sounded alone.”
Hans took advantage of the GI Bill, “which enabled me to earn the college education denied to me in Nazi Germany.” The veteran gets a job with Ebony magazine and when Adlai Stevenson and Sekou Toure sit down for an interview “it seemed to me that coming to America had not been such a bad idea after all.”
His mother arrives stateside and marries a Serbian the Allies had freed from a POW camp. The couple live in a Chicago suburb, in “exactly the kind of home with a small vegetable garden I used to dream about in Germany, when home ownership was beyond our reach.”
Hans Massaquoi remained aware of racism but never charges that the United States is as bad as Nazi Germany. Readers of Destined to Witness find nothing about Nazi scholars studying “racial terror” in the American south. That was a staple of Communist Party USA propaganda, along with the notion that blacks were not true Americans.
Those views abound in the work of Frank Marshall Davis, the beloved “Frank” of Dreams from My Father, who spent most of his life supporting all-white Stalinist dictatorships. Jamele Hill and Isabel Wilkerson are essentially recycling Communist Party propaganda, while ignoring true parallels with Nazism.
The Antifa-BLM axis spreads terror and destruction in the streets and vandalizes synagogues as Democrat politicians tell the police to stand down. Leftist sturmtruppen call for a Kristallnacht against Christians. Racist mobs burn, loot, and murder, as Democrat Party bosses look the other way.
And now abide hatred, violence and ignorance, but the greatest of these is ignorance.
Even in the 'north'? There is MORE racism in 'the North' than there ever was in 'The South'. You will see far more mixed race couples in the South than in the North. Why? Because they were ALWAYS HERE, even in the OLD SOUTH. They faced ostracization from both sides, but they still existed, and flourished in some areas, even during the height of the KKK's power.........................
Watched an older episode of Discovery Unknown(?) last night about a search for the final missing WASP, Gertrude Tomlinson, out of the 1,000+ that volunteered. Of the ones killed(83?) ferrying figters and bombers and other military planes she is the last unaccounted for. A lot of today’s ungrateful snots have no clue what the word sacrifice actually means. Unless they’re twitter account get suspended for a couple days or their cell phone is broken. THAT is REAL suffering there.
Why is this even a question?
IF the US was as bad as Nazi Germany, the people asking this question would be concentration camps. Ditto for those people committing arson, vandalism, and battery.
“If you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are,”
Between the Leftist who are behind all the recent “racial justice” violence and the Democrats and the Lame Street Media who support the BLM movement and ignore the black on black crime we are close. If the Democrats win the 2020 elections and you start seeing folks loaded into boxcars, then we’ve made it.
Wonder if she is as generous with her own money as she is with her opinions ....
The Democratic Party is controlled by the latter - who try to pretend racism is only about the former.
If America had been as bad as the Nazis their sorry asses wouldn’t even be here because their ancestors would have been sterilized and worked to death.
Sorta exactly how Islam dealt with many black slaves that survived the march across the Sahara,
Bookmarked under History
Well, the Nazis did inspire several gun laws in the USA.
In fact, the Democrats copied the Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 over, almost word for word.
Here:
http://robertwimer.com/did-hitler-enact-gun-control-laws-here-are-the-facts/
So there is that.
Maya Angelou once said that the North and the South exhibit two different kinds of racism: (paraphrasing)
In the South, white people like black people on an individual basis, but not as a group. They will have black friends but avoid large groups.
In the North, they like black people as a group, but not on an individual basis. They don’t want them to live next door.................
Maya is full of sh*t.
I am not aware of anything that is forcing Jemele Hill to stay here. There are plenty of places she can go that are almost entirely devoid of YT. Detroit, for instance, or several African countries. The good news for her is that such places are increasing ... according to plan.
Why is she still here if it’s so horrible?
It’s all so tiresome.
Mostly, but on this she was correct.............
You give all sh*t a bad name, by saying Maya is full of it....
True. I grew up in Florida and moved to Delaware from Texas (work). A black family moved into my neighborhood. Shortly afterwards, my neighbor (my State Farm insurance man) came over to ask what I was going to do about the blacks that had moved in.
I told him: “You damn Yankees ave been shoving this integration down the South’s throat for the past 15 years. Live with it.” I changed insurance companies the next day.
“Even in the ‘north’?”
At the time, the South was Democratic Party stronghold, and KKK membership or at least open support, was an essential qualification to hold office.
I know that, I was calling attention to the qualifier “even” like the writer did not expect there to be any racism in the North. ............
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