People should be more outraged by America's long history of anti-Black violence and terrorism and less outraged by a Black woman pointing out the harrowing similarities between Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.
Näytä tämä ketju
Some of the most vile laws in Nazi Germany (including the Nuremberg Laws, which forbade marriages between Jews and Germans) were modeled on and influenced by Jim Crow laws that mandated segregation and prohibited marriages between people of different races.
-
-
The admiration between Nazis and Southern segregationists went both ways. Theodore Bilbo, who served 20 years as governor & senator from Mississippi, openly praised Nazi race laws. Eugene Talmadge, who served as Governor of Georgia, said he read Hitler's Mein Kampf seven times
Näytä tämä ketju -
The similarities between Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South were so striking that in 1934 the editor of the Baltimore Afro-American wrote that he believed "one could think [Hitler] is a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a native of Alabama."
Näytä tämä ketju
Keskustelun loppu
Uusi keskustelu -
Lataaminen näyttää kestävän hetken.
Twitter saattaa olla ruuhkautunut tai ongelma on muuten hetkellinen. Yritä uudelleen tai käy Twitterin tilasivulla saadaksesi lisätietoja.