When they found America lynched from a Georgia tree; they asked how -- why? And, a weeping black child shouted from the mountains, “I saw them. I watched them. I saw it. They killed her. They said, she kept dancing with the Africans and the Mexicans."
"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity."
--- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
"In the 1960s, William Rehnquist and friends launched “Operation Eagle Eye“ in“Operation Eagle Eye“ the Southwest where they would send “poll watchers“ to threaten and intimidate Native American, Hispanic and Black voters.''
"The Republican Party engaged in “Operation Eagle Eye,” a national effort ostensibly aimed at reducing voter fraud that included monitoring polling places, photographing voters, and challenging voters suspected of breaking voting laws. Many of these activities occurred in heavily
“Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa - now #Namibia - slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide.”
“... [During] the Second Reich, rapid multimillion-person population loss and the tearfully destitute conditions propelling the outflow, were devastating to the German national identity. A concept arose: Volk ohne Raum, that is, “a people without space.”
"Father characterized the promoters of the warfare as THIEVES."
"Father asked no quarter in the coming struggle and would give none. The White Republicans, angered, attempted to influence the colored delegates to split on the color question."
25 years AFTER the Civil War.
132 years ago ...
"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"
400 years ago in Japan, on March 23, 1581, foreigners in large black ships came from a far-off land, seeking to convert the Japanese natives to their religion, along with them was a black page in their employ.