Final weekend, a bunch of demonstrators brandishing Nazi flags and a banner studying “Make America White Once more” with an accompanying swastika stood atop a bridge above Houston’s Interstate 45. The group additionally paid Metropolis Corridor a go to.
A number of Houstonians responded to the sight of the white nationalists with shock, with some saying they’ve by no means seen such hateful messages within the Bayou Metropolis.
Have to be good.
I don’t know a Black soul in H-City who has not seen or personally skilled hateful messages on this metropolis or every other U.S. city we’ve spent greater than a minute in.
Why?
As a result of America is a Nazi nation. Actually.
THE BLUEPRINT
Apparently, it’s been a secret for the reason that Nineteen Thirties – a secret as a result of this data has been in books – that as members of the not-yet-fully fashioned Nazi Occasion had been on the lookout for fashions across the globe upon which to base their overtly discriminatory legal guidelines in opposition to European Jews, their leaders and students decided that the perfect instance of a rustic placing discriminatory, unapologetic hate into legislation was by far america of America.
These pre-Nazis concluded that the race to find probably the most legally discriminatory and unfair society on the planet wasn’t even shut. “America the Free” received this contest by a landslide. Therefore, those that engineered and constructed what we now know to be the Nazi Occasion that sought to convey the globe below the heel of a delusion of white supremacy-believing, dictatorial ethno-state used the U.S.’s authorized mistreatment and subjugation of Black individuals as their mannequin.
In different phrases, there could be no Nazi state with out the instance of america.
However wait, there’s extra.
A number of of those pre-Nazis, as they had been devising the authorized framework for what ultimately grew right into a genocidal marketing campaign, mentioned there was no means America was really doing a few of the over-the-top racist issues their researchers had been reporting to this Nazi “planning committee.”
Take into consideration that for a minute. Nazis had been reviewing legal guidelines, customs, and practices of segregation and oppression American type (in opposition to Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Indigenous individuals) and checked out one another and mentioned, “Ain’t no means America is doing absolutely the most and getting away with it. Ain’t no means they’re in a position to so ruthlessly and utterly oppress and abuse complete races of individuals, and accomplish that with little or no destructive pushback from their very own individuals and press or the individuals and media of the world.”
Analysis this for your self. If I’m lyin’ I’m flyin’.
USA, USA!
However wait, there’s extra.
The U.S. was not simply the mannequin for top-level oppression for the Nazis; there was one other international USA that appeared to America because the GOAT by way of insane ranges of unashamed, in-your-face oppression – the Union of South Africa.
Sure, the apartheid system that stored South Africa’s majority Black residents in a state of fourth-class citizenship in their very own land, long-established their type of legalized hate after america of America.
So, whereas whitefolk in America are aghast at seeing Americans proudly displaying their Nazi gear and shouting their Nazi cheers, Blackfolk are questioning, “How y’all aint know?”
NY: IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THERE, YOU’LL MAKE IT ANYWHERE
However how whitefolk don’t know is basically not a thriller. They’ve an extended historical past of willfully ignoring historical past, or selecting to flat re-write it to mirror their very own imagined picture. Which might be why not one of the historical past books I learn whereas in my Okay-college lessons ever talked about the 1939 New York Madison Sq. Backyard sold-out American Nazi rally.
Sure, you learn that proper. However only for extra context, learn this NPR article excerpt:
“On the night of Feb. 20, 1939, the marquee of New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard was lit up with the night’s major occasion: a ‘Professional American Rally.’
The organizers had chosen the date in celebration of George Washington’s birthday and had procured a 30-foot-tall banner of America’s first president for the stage. Greater than 20,000 women and men streamed inside and took their seats. The view that they had was gorgeous: Washington was hung between American flags — and swastikas.”
Sure, the pro-Nazi rally was billed because the “PRO AMERICAN RALLY.”
EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN THE LONE STAR STATE
Texans have their very own contributions to this story.
With almost 70 WWII prisoner-of-war camps, Texas had roughly twice as many as every other state. These camps ranged from extraordinarily giant (housing hundreds of prisoners) to small (holding lower than 100). In whole, over 50,000 German troopers had been held within the Lone Star State throughout WWII.
And get this, even Nazi prisoners of battle in Texas had been shocked on the blatant racism and mistreatment their white American captors heaped upon U.S. Blacks. There are legions of articles that spotlight how numerous Texas “cowboys” and “maidens” had their hearts all a-flutter as a result of they had been so taken by these Nazi troopers.
CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP
This U.S./Nazi love affair ran deep and hit on all ranges. Did I erroneously say “ran,” as in previous tense? Yo, it’s nonetheless ongoing, as Blackfolk have seen over time through each anti-Black Lives Matter protest on this nation; and each Blue Lives Matter gathering from sea to shining sea; and each anti-CRT gathering; and each rebel and insurrection-related occasion. In any respect of those happenings and extra, U.S. Nazis have been in full impact.
And quiet because it’s stored, the variety of Republican elected officers who’ve endorsed Nazi views, spoken at Nazi-sponsored gatherings, and stood by Nazi rhetoric spewing people, refusing to denounce them and their methods, is astounding to many however anticipated once you ask Blackfolk.
ENDLESS LOVE
We’ve all the time seen this U.S./Nazi reference to clear eyes. What shocked the hell out of us was the truth that the U.S. ever went to battle in opposition to the Nazis when the 2 teams carried themselves like similar twins or kissing cousins. Hell, so lots of America’s most celebrated heroes (Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, simply to call a pair) had been celebrated as Nazis heroes, as effectively. Ford, who has been touted because the image of all issues American for many years, acquired the very best Nazi honors for his service to their trigger.
The Ford Motor Firm’s German subsidiary even revealed what can solely be described as a love poem to Hitler titled “Führer” of their in-house journal in April of 1940, which said:
We have now sworn to you as soon as,However now we make our allegiance everlasting.
Like currents in a torrent misplaced,All of us move into you.
Even once we can’t perceive you,We are going to go along with you.In the future we could comprehend,How one can see our future.Hearts like bronze shields,We have now positioned round you,And it appears to us, that onlyYou can reveal God’s world to us.
Get a room, you two!
Houstonians had been “shocked” to see a handful of Nazis parading on a bridge over I-45 a couple of days in the past. What’s surprising to Blackfolk is that Nazis have been alive and effectively, and doing their factor on this nation since day one… and whitefolk swear that they had no clue.
Ni**a please!
