“After witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust, in which every member of his family except his brother was killed, Dr Lemkin campaigned to have genocide recognised as a crime under international law.” bbc.com/news/world-111…
This is the man who came up with the word "genocide".
His family was murdered by White Nationalist.
Dr. Lemkin talking about the word.
Raphael Lemkin Defines Genocide (1949) Full Broadcast
George Orwell on ‘Mein Kampf’
“What [Hitler] envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of “living room” (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which ...
.... essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder. How was it that he was able to put this monstrous vision across?”
Germany to return human remains from the Namibian genocide of Herero and Nama people Germanys Black Holocaust
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If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution; African or Black conservatism, emerges out of, and in response to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
"Give us, us free!"
The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery
Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.
"Arguably one of the cleverest artifices of white supremacy is the thorough scrubbing out of African civilization and human existence before contact with Europeans."
"When oppression and subjugation are falsely presented as the genesis of black human identity, it provides a pseudo-intellectual justification for the marginalization of black people both on the African continent and in the diaspora."
"Moreover, it provides a justification for self-hatred among black people who are not taught any better."
Continue Reading ⏩ Chidike Okeem: The Conservative Roots of Black History Month.
#NeverForget The Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: The Bible and the Holocaust
"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"If it has come about that today The Black Christ; has to be led into the field AGAINST The White Christ; by a young black poet, than a deep cleft in the church of Jesus Christ is indicated."
Filibuster is a perilous wedge lodged in the heart of our politics
"How could a country [Germany] so highly developed, cultured, and educated descend from a functioning democracy to a full-blown dictatorship in just a few years?" bostonglobe.com/2021/10/30/opi… via @BostonGlobe
Is the Filibuster Just?
Does the Filibuster expand liberty or will it take it away?
The AFRICAN father of WESTERN theology whispering to another AFRICAN.
“Lex iniusta non est lex"
'An UNJUST law, is NO LAW AT ALL.’
You have to make the MORAL case against the filibuster -- not the procedural problems with it.
"Before Central Park was built, New York’s first free Black Community, #SenecaVillage, was torn down to make room for it. This is a topic often left out of history."