"Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it
appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason
much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing
and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination
they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous"
~Thomas Jefferson~
In 1934, 17 founding members of what would soon become the 3rd Reich, met to begin laying the groundwork for what would become one of the greatest slaughters in the history of mankind. One of them. They pondered ways in which to rid Germany of Jews, gays, and anyone who didn't fit their idea of purity regarding "whiteness." In what soon became Nazi Germany, under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, over 6 million Jews were imprisoned and put to death. Another 5 million of "lesser whites" were led to the same fate. They were stripped, shaved, tortured, beaten, starved, shot, and gassed in ovens. They were forced to carry out their own dead before facing their own demise. It's a barbaric notion beyond what you can scarcely imagine. In fact, the United States was so appalled by the happenings in Nazi Germany, we went to war over it after being attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Over 400,000 U.S. soldiers paid the ultimate price to put an end to Hitler's reign in Nazi Germany.
But here's the part you may not know. When these 17 founders of the 3rd Reich met to put their plan in to action, they consulted the behaviors, laws, punishments and executions from another country who already had their "democracy" in place; The United States of America.
That's right. Before Nazi Germany was even Nazi Germany, the founders of the 3rd Reich studied the blueprint of white supremacy in America. Most interesting to them were the Jim Crow Laws of the South. And they followed our lead save one concept. They thought our torturous ways and executions for non-whites was too brutal. It's, in part, why they opted for gas chambers as a more humane way to slaughter millions. Remember, this was after slavery was legally abolished. We fought a war on our own soil over that one.
Since any true numbers of European whites began coming ashore on our eastern coast, bringing with them the first 20 African-American slaves, we have been setting in place a system of white supremacy that still exists today. Since arriving in the New World, whites have slaughtered over 56 million indigenous people from coast to coast, wiping out over ninety percent of Native Americans. Those we didn't kill, we relocated at gunpoint to vast wastelands of nothingness.
In addition, as if the invasion and slaughtering of indigenous people wasn't enough, White people from Europe brought with them roughly 3.5 million African-American slaves to build their empire. 3,500,000 people!!!! African slaves were treated as property and wealth was measured in part by their ownership. Not unlike in Nazi Germany, these slaves were whipped, starved, tortured, beaten, raped, made to work unfathomably long days on almost no food, and the list goes on and on.
But not to worry, we fought a war over slavery and the north won! In 1865, slaves were given their "freedom." You know what changed? Nothing. New laws on the books made it impossible for previously enslaved people to vote, work anything other than menial jobs that paid little more than nothing, marry outside their race, misspeak to a white person, not step off a sidewalk, or do most anything white men thought was outside their "place." For infractions of any of these things and many more, Black Americans were beaten, imprisoned, or more often than not, lynched in public hangings with no trial. Families were ripped apart and white Americans continued to make it nearly impossible for Black Americans to get any kind of foothold. They were considered inferior.
If you think things are better today, you'd only be partly right. Sure, the public brutality has mostly ceased, but the attempts at keeping non-white people from succeeding at anything still goes on today, especially in the southern states. And this doesn't even begin to touch the injustices done to immigrants and women. It's shameful. It's beyond shameful. It's disgusting. It's inhumane. Hell, one of those founding fathers you're so proud of, Thomas Jefferson? A slave owner, as were most of the others. Even our "beloved" Benjamin Franklin spoke of white purity. Our founding fathers didn't build a land of the free. They built a land of the free for white men.
Of course, you can always defend your stance on white supremacy with the Bible, citing references to Noah's son Ham and a lesser race. But I'd just send you down the road to the Crusades where estimates range anywhere from one million to nine million killed in the name of Christianity over two centuries. You know, just like Jesus would do.
And this, my friends (or likely some former friends) brings me to the importance of Critical Race Theory. You think your kids can't handle the truth? If we have any chance of ever putting the hierarchy of race and importance and equality to rest in the favor of only white people, especially men, then our kids have to know the truth about our history. They have to know we were no better than the Nazis in those days. They have to know all man is created equal. They have to believe in their soul that it wasn't just a black man that rose to be president, but a man. A wonderfully qualified man and skin pigmentation has no influence. It will take generations, but we have to start now before we're back at war over which skin tone is superior. We are all equal. Period.
I am becoming less and less proud of flying the American flag. The more I learn about our true history, the more my heart hurts. As for your flag......if you fly a Nazi or Confederate flag for all to see, then you and I are done. It's all I really need to know about you. If your argument for flying your Confederate flag is that you're just proud of your southern heritage, all the more so. How can any human being be proud of the torture and hate represented by that flag? You just think it looks cool? Well, now you know better. Take it down.
If you scream at me about our self-righteous freedom and fly a Nazi or Confederate flag in my face, please.....
Don't even.
