You see this. You think this. (Graphic warning for historical photos depicting actual events)

[Solly Mack]

You see this:











You should immediately think of this:

















And you should think of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and in the name of anti-semitism in America. You should be appalled. Still. Forever.

You see this:











And you don't immediately think of the atrocity of slavery, and the other atrocities committed in the name of "states rights", "heritage", and racism against black people:















You need to ask yourself why.

There is nothing neutral about any of the above symbols of hate. Nothing that should be easily dismissed as not part of the real problem of racism in America. Those symbols are part and parcel to the problem of racism and anti-semitism in America.

[samnsara]

1. also i suggest everyone go see the Holocaust Museum in DC.....

......the piles of shoes, eyeglasses, eye color chart, empty cattle car.....

[Solly Mack]

2. I agree. Thank you.

[lunasun]

3. Yes agree and also the national Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

Take along and educate your children if you have some. Or others will!

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes! Thank you. Both.

[samnsara]

101. i went to memphis and all i saw was Graceland :(

...also the pandas. The kids were in a stroller at that time so now they are older we should make a trip back there.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I've been to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

If you can get out of the Children's memorial without being in tears, you have no soul.



http://mistressoftheanimals.scientopia.org/2017/05/23/what-trump-doesnt-know-yad-vashem-edition/

[BASE]

12. I went to one in Israel, that was pretty moving

So fucked up.

[Warpy]

16. The slave auction museum in Charleston SC has haunted me

since I saw it at the age of 9, the ledgers under glass showing men, women and children up for sale as human cattle, all described in oh-so-polite copperplate script. I suggest that be required along with the tour of the homes of the wealthy and the local eateries.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g54171-d1455417-Reviews-Old_Slave_Mart_Museum-Charleston_South_Carolina.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Slave_Mart

You can still sense the echoes of desperation in that place.

[TNNurse]

27. The ones who need to see all of this to change their minds...

probably never will.

These images have not been hidden, people have chose to not see them, not believe them or think they were justified.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. Also do not forget the newest museum on the mall - NMAAHC

National Museum for African American History and Culture



https://nmaahc.si.edu/

[MindPilot]

52. It was the shoes that sent me over the edge.

I pretty much held it together up to that point, and then in an instant I'm a grown man sobbing uncontrollably standing on that bridge over the river of shoes.

So many shoes...so many people.

[Pacifist Patriot]

61. Very moving!

I took my 13 year old son last summer. By coincidence I drew a middle-aged Roma mother and my son drew a 14 year old Jewish boy. Very powerful and moving. Definitely should be experienced.

[calimary]

63. We have the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance here in L.A.

Made me happy when I heard the kids were being taken there on a school field trip.

EVERYONE needs to know and remember. I still think about a friend of my mom's - a sweet little old lady who for many years owned a boutique where my mother loved to go browse and shop, with a little side of coffee and gossip while she looked at the fashions. Her name was Lydia. She was her extended family's only survivor of the camps. The ONLY one who lived.

I cannot imagine...

[forgotmylogin]

86. I've been to the DC Holocaust museum

The experience was nearly overwhelming. I'd had a weirdly morbid fascination with details of the Holocaust since high school...perhaps a natural terrified curiosity that occurs with an existential fear of death and carnage.

That visit cured me of that completely.

At the end, there are two astonishing white chapels with each wall for a specific camp and candles for people to light in remembrance. I remember thinking "I have no specific person to light a candle for." and immediately a voice in my head said, "Light a candle for someone who can't be here."

Thinking about it still turns me into a puddle.

[leftstreet]

4. DURec

very nicely done

[Solly Mack]

6. Thank you.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. "very fine people", right Don?

[Solly Mack]

8. Because he agrees with them and they voted for him.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Thank you for these excellent historical photos, my dear Solly Mack.

These show the evil side of world history, and our country's evil history too.

Your last sentence lays it all out very clearly: Those symbols are part and parcel to the problem of racism and anti-semitism in America.

We Must Never Forget.

We Must Never Stop Working Against The Forces Which Brought Them Forth.

[Solly Mack]

10. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. They cannot be disassociated. They must not be sanitized.

[Solly Mack]

15. I agree

If a person can look upon a monument to the Confederacy and not think about what that really means, there is something lacking in them as a person.

Same with Nazi emblems.

[malaise]

14. Excellent Post

Rec

[Solly Mack]

17. Thank you, malaise.

[peacebuzzard]

18. This current pres will be part of the ugly halls of shame,

He is a continuation of this hell on earth.
This is a detailed image compilation of the horrors of racism.
Good job on this historical images post and it is relevant, indeed.

[Solly Mack]

19. Thank you, peacebuzzard

[Delphinus]

20. You have

very clearly laid out truth. It's horrible to look at - to see our inhumanity to each other - but we sure do need to see, remember, and learn.

[Solly Mack]

21. Thank you, Delphinus

[spanone]

22. K&R...

[Solly Mack]

23. Thanks, spanone

[spanone]

24. 👍🏼 hopefully, we're still evolving and will get beyond this someday.

to see this kind of hatred raising it's head again is so frightening.

[Solly Mack]

26. I hope so too.

[CatMor]

25. I wish every American could see what you posted...

I wonder how many don't realize the reality of slavery or anti-semitism. Many probably don't even think about it or think the White Supremists and Anti-semite Nazis don't exist. The evil is out there in this country along with a so called President, who claimed there were some really nice people marching with them. These same people never had to experience racism and bigotry and all the evil that goes with it. Trump has to be gone along with Bannon and others who are behind him.

Thank you for your post, it is stunning in its impact.

[Solly Mack]

28. Thank you, CatMor

When you're slapped in the face every day with symbols glorifying your oppression, it can't be easy.

Knowing people march to celebrate the time when your family was enslaved.

Same with Nazis marching. Celebrating genocide.

[ismnotwasm]

29. K&R

[LenaBaby61]

30. THANK YOU ....

Solly Mack!

NEVER FORGET.

NEVER FORGET.

[Solly Mack]

31. Thanks, LenaBaby61

You're welcome.

[canetoad]

32. K&R

Powerful pictures.

[Solly Mack]

33. Thank you, canetoad

[Billsmile]

34. Reagan's "Young Buck" Dog Whistle Politics

Here's an old clip that talks about Reagan's "young buck" reference. Note the 'buck' references in the above slave sale poster.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/27/ronald-reagans-racially-tinged-stump-speeches/

[Solly Mack]

35. Thank you for adding that!

Thanks, Billsmile.

[Honeycombe8]

36. Gut wrenching. Not in our country ever again. How is it necessary to have this conversation AGAIN?nt

[Solly Mack]

37. It will always be necessary as long as people are in denial.

And, because we can't ever forget.

[countryjake]

39. It galls me that so many are shocked that White Supremacists...

and Anti-Semitists are still marching, spreading their message of hatred wherever and whenever they can.

That our prez continually emboldened them throughout his fascist campaign was terrifying to anyone who is on their target list, but it sure wasn't anything new or surprising.

Thanks for your thread, Solly, and hopefully, it'll open a few minds today.

[Solly Mack]

41. Thank you, countryjake

Hatred/bigotry isn't new to America but far too many put it out of their minds because it doesn't directly affect them.

Everyone needs to stay aware. Because it's the right thing to do and because even though it appears like it isn't affecting someone, it actually is - it can shape how they think. If you don't see the pain caused, then you can tell yourself there is no pain or it isn't that bad.

[lillypaddle]

40. Jesus god

make it stop!

[Solly Mack]

42. Thank you, lillypaddle

If enough of us fight against it, we can - at least - make it unacceptable.

[bora13]

43. the

supposed "fine people" should watch this:

[Solly Mack]

44. They should but I fear they would watch it with a different mindset than we would.

They were chanting against Jewish people, so they would probably find that video entertaining.

[bora13]

51. if t-rump says

there are fine people in WS movement then maybe there is hope.
But we know there are no fine people if proclaiming White Supremacy so I guess
one can only hope.

what is fine about thinking you can cremate people in order to make room for
more cremations?

[GreenEyedLefty]

71. American Congressmen invited to view the atrocities were told by Gen. Eisenhower:

"Nothing is covered up. We have nothing to conceal. The barbarous treatment these people received in the German concentration camps is almost unbelievable. I want you to see for yourselves and be the spokesman for the United States."

[steve2470]

45. Excellent post! Will retweet on Twitter! nt

[Solly Mack]

46. Thank you, steve2470

OK.

[blueseas]

47. K&R

1001+

[Solly Mack]

49. Thank you, blueseas

[steve2470]

48. if I had extra money, I would pay for this to be a "Sponsored Post" on Twitter but alas I do not

Of course the usual suspects would be enraged and maybe people could learn something. The ignorance in this country for important things, like THIS, is just astounding.

[Solly Mack]

50. I didn't know Twitter had something like that.

I'm not on Twitter.

But I do thank you for thinking my post worth it.

[Skittles]

53. THANK YOU

my blood runs cold when I see those flags and I cannot even BEGIN to imagine what it is like to be Jewish or POC and see that garbage

[Solly Mack]

54. Thank you, Skittles

You're welcome.

[MindPilot]

55. I believe the time for non-violent resistance has passed.

There are no good nazis, and there are no part time nazis. It is a clear binary condition; you either are a nazi or you are not. You cannot display a Swastika on the weekend and go back to being a regular Joe on Monday. If you do not denounce nazism and its adherents in the strongest possible terms, then you belong in the "are a nazi" group.

I've heard it said--and I've said it myself--"the only good nazi is a dead one". That is not accurate; a dead nazi is only a marginal improvement over a live one.

Nazis have abdicated their membership in the human family and must be purged by any means necessary.

[Solly Mack]

57. I've never been of the mind to give them a pass.

I do support non-violence first and foremost, but I'm not a pacifist.

[Alice11111]

56. Horrific. It must be faced though. Thank you for OP

[Solly Mack]

59. We can't afford to forget or embrace denial.

Thank you, Alice11111

[Alice11111]

62. No, or we will be destined to repeat the past or other horrific

acts. Those Nazi pictures are the same as we are seeing. They stand for power & evil.
The black lynchings could only be done by purely evil people.
Most of us Dems are pretty peaceful people and want everyone to love & get along. We need to be reminded of the depths that evil can go to, if it is left unchallenged, so we can attempt to stop it fast.

[YOHABLO]

58. They love to push buttons .. that's why they have the Nazi flag.

They know we hate it.

[Solly Mack]

60. That and they embrace the hate it represents.

[RandomAccess]

64. SUPERB documentary post

I would love to see one additional photo: piles of naked skeletal bodies

And your post I think gives ample proof to this quote from MLK, Jr:

[Solly Mack]

77. I was afraid someone would alert on my post if I posted all the photos I wanted to post.

Thank you, RandomAccess!

[zentrum]

65. State's Rights

Last edited Thu Aug 17, 2017, 09:17 PM - Edit history (1)

...to enslave and torture the people who built this country, its wealth, its White House!

When will the truth ever be fully told and taught?

The thing that needs to change as step one is to create new plaques for all these monuments to horror---plaques that explain just what the "hero" did, just what "state's rights" means, and just what the Confederate flag stood for and stands for.

We need to insist on a clear confrontation and confession of the great crime against humanity all these monuments signify. The country will never be well until we tell the truth.

[CrispyQ]

68. Round them all up & put them in a museum called US Shop of Horrors,

with the newly corrected plaques. Make it part of 5th grade social studies.

[zentrum]

73. I think it needs to be in the public

...square, seen every day, over and over, on the way to work, and school by everyone.

A museum costs money to visit, is hidden away, is not gone to over and over. These plaques need to be daily in everyone's face.

The people who most need the corrected plaques are the very ones who will not go to such a museum.

It could be a project for the 5th grade and up to research and write examples of what the Truth Plaques should say.

They did something like this in Germany after the war. They put plaques around the city of where terrible things were done. Or where a Jew who was taken to a concentration, once lived.

Have you seen Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next"?

[Solly Mack]

78. Thank you, zentrum

Well said!

[yuiyoshida]

66. K&R tweeted

n/t

[Solly Mack]

79. Thank you, yuiyoshida

[iluvtennis]

67. Powerful reminders....thanks for the post. nt

[Solly Mack]

80. Thank you, iluvtennis

You're welcome.

[CrispyQ]

69. Powerful.

[Solly Mack]

81. Thank you, CrispyQ

[moonseller66]

70. People!

Look on these pictures and try to imagine a loved one - wife, husband, son or daughter, aunt or uncle there in those photos.
Look on these pictures and the thousands like them in archives and heed this:
If these dregs of humanity, these spineless, brainless, unfeeling ego maniacal imbeciles ever gain control, they won't be deterred by any skin color, religion or political beliefs. They will happily and without feelings or conscience add to these photos any who disagree with their views.

Solly Mack,
I've seen worse and I imagine you have also. Maybe more "worse" needs to be exposed to shock the apathetic into action; to understand and realize this coul dhappen to them. The inhabitants in towns of Concentration Camps claim they had no idea what was going on. When the GIs took the camps, many townspeople were made to view the horror the claimed they knew nothing of. Many were conscripted to help remove bodies and clean camps. Maybe that's what's needed today. There but for the grace of...

Glad you started something that should spread and bring attention to what these degenerates really stand for.

[Solly Mack]

82. Thank you, moonseller66

[steve2470]

72. kick again nt

[SunSeeker]

74. The look on that man's face on the auction block and the horrific lashing scars on his legs...

[Solly Mack]

83. Thank you, SunSeeker

That photo was shortly after slavery ended. Because it didn't matter that slavery had ended for many. White people still gathered to attack and punish African-Americans.

[Heartstrings]

75. I have visited Dachau....

I was 20 years old, it was a very humbling experience and haunts me to this day.

My heart has been sadden by the past week's hatred.....

[Solly Mack]

84. Thank you, Heartstrings

[Ilsa]

76. A friend from years ago said his father was a Liberator.

I don't remember which concentration camp it was, but it was a big one. He saw the starving prisoners, the gas chambers, the oven. Had nightmares about it.

But he told his family what he saw. And his son, my friend, would pretty riled up if anyone tried to deny the Holocaust.

Another friend worked for a survivor at his business in north Texas. Another coworker's father-in-law was a camp survivor.

Thank goodness for the documentaries, museums, and eyewitness accounts.

[Solly Mack]

85. Thank you, Ilsa

We have to fight against the denial.

[Boomerproud]

91. If these photos and documentation are not part of history classes in our schools

then we as a society are failing our children. On CNN today there was a rapper named David Bannon (I believe) and he said "I have a question for you. Why are we still arguing about what my grandparents complained about 60 years ago?" Brook Baldwin answered "I don't know if there was a question, but thank you for the powerful statement. Be right back after the message." Um, YES, Brooke Baldwin, he DID ask you a question.

[dalton99a]

87. A good Nazi:

[Solly Mack]

93. !

[Fluke a Snooker]

88. Which leads to the logical conclusion...

[dixiegrrrrl]

90. Obviously that is an exaggeration.

There still remain moderate Republicans, in fact most of my neighbors, including the 90 year old widow 2 doors up.
The ones we have trouble with are the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus types.

when it comes to getting rid of Trump, you don't want to throw possible allies away.

One of the problems we are having today is the rigid drawing of lines, deciding everyone into one of 2 camps.

[Fluke a Snooker]

99. There SHOULD be a rigid line. There always has been, actually

Anyone who is not progressive is an extremist right winger, by definition. This cannot be disputed, and we are finally coming out and asserting this basic global truth: the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in the history of the world. Noam Chomsky, the legendary icon, has stated exactly so.

[Solly Mack]

94. I think they all traffic in racism but I wouldn't go that far.

Though I do think the majority of responses by republicans have been tepid, at best.

[Fluke a Snooker]

100. Anyone that votes to let Gorsuch on the Supreme Court is, by inference, an extremist nazi

I can provide many other examples, but that is the most obvious one that comes to mind.

[Solly Mack]

103. Yeah, Gorsuch. :(

That was awful.

[niyad]

89. given the hateful rhetoric coming from the nazis here, it would not take much.

[Solly Mack]

96. I agree.

It wouldn't take much at all to set them off and in a big way.

[tblue37]

92. Big K&R. nt

[Solly Mack]

97. Thank you, tblue37

[Behind the Aegis]

95. Thank you!! Thank you!!

Thank you for remembering us. Thank you for continually expressing your disgust of other forms of bigotry, and still remembering to include anti-Semitism! Thank you for speaking out!

You actually made me cry.

Thank you.

[Solly Mack]

98. Sending you hugs.

We can't allow them to win.

We can't. We lose everything if we do.

[Warren DeMontague]

102. Kick And Rec

[Solly Mack]

104. Thank you, Warren DeMontague