I remember that visit because it was so shocking and inexcusable. It makes me think about how the Reich came to the US to study our Jim Crow laws to see how to segregate Jews and other “undesirables.”
I remember that visit because it was so shocking and inexcusable. It makes me think about how the Reich came to the US to study our Jim Crow laws to see how to segregate Jews and other “undesirables.”
Yes I'm reading Rachel Maddow's book 'Prequel' right now, which is outstanding and very informative but harrowing to realize that these Nazi sympathizers and fascist racists have been part of the American population for so long. The 3 part Ken Burn's documentary 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' was really great too and talked about the ways the Third Reich used the U.S. history of seizing Native American land and confining them to reservations or annihilating them altogether, also using the enslavement and savage treatment of Africans and Jim Crow laws that kept them repressed even when supposedly free.
As she does so well, Heather writes in detail and really shows how horrible the murder of these 3 men In Philadelphia, Mississippi was and how long it took for justice to finally be served in some way. Or that 8 other Black men were found murdered just during the search for them in the months that they'd been missing. That Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were driven by Deputy Sheriff Price down some sketchy road to be brutally beaten, murdered and buried at the dam site by KKK members he was associated with is still too appalling to believe it can happen here in the U.S.
Yet Reagan chose to go to this site for a reason, as well as going to the Bitburg Nazi cemetery. He knew were he was going in these instances and it says much about him.
I remember that visit because it was so shocking and inexcusable. It makes me think about how the Reich came to the US to study our Jim Crow laws to see how to segregate Jews and other “undesirables.”
Yes I'm reading Rachel Maddow's book 'Prequel' right now, which is outstanding and very informative but harrowing to realize that these Nazi sympathizers and fascist racists have been part of the American population for so long. The 3 part Ken Burn's documentary 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' was really great too and talked about the ways the Third Reich used the U.S. history of seizing Native American land and confining them to reservations or annihilating them altogether, also using the enslavement and savage treatment of Africans and Jim Crow laws that kept them repressed even when supposedly free.
As she does so well, Heather writes in detail and really shows how horrible the murder of these 3 men In Philadelphia, Mississippi was and how long it took for justice to finally be served in some way. Or that 8 other Black men were found murdered just during the search for them in the months that they'd been missing. That Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were driven by Deputy Sheriff Price down some sketchy road to be brutally beaten, murdered and buried at the dam site by KKK members he was associated with is still too appalling to believe it can happen here in the U.S.
Yet Reagan chose to go to this site for a reason, as well as going to the Bitburg Nazi cemetery. He knew were he was going in these instances and it says much about him.