A History that Continues

Today I took the train to Fürstenberg and visited Ravensbrück, a former nazi concentration camp. The camp opened in 1939 and was mostly for female prisoners. Many children were also born in the camp and very few survived.

The camp visit really upset me. Seeing the ovens and the narrow pathway that camp guards used to make prisoners walk down, and then shoot them in the back of the neck, really bothered me.
All day I was thinking to myself about Donald Trump, and how he and his speechwriter Stephen Miller have dehumanized my people. I thought about Elon Musk and his “nazi salute” at the presidential inauguration, and how he is promoting and encouraging right wing parties, making life more dangerous for BIPOC.

I also thought about all the other racists on Trumps cabinet. this all really upset me. I thought about how the United States with their horrible, genocidal history, now just chooses not to teach the evil they have done, and tries to punish the teachers for doing their job.

As if the day wasn’t mentally and emotionally hard enough, on my way home I received a few dirty looks, and even was called a derogatory term by some teenagers, and almost got in a fight with another man before boarding my train. I guess somethings never change.