I have Worked as a tour guide in Berlin for 11 years. I have met many white supremacists. I have met many from the United States alone. I always found it weird how infatuated many were with the nazis. They liked the uniforms and seemed really way too interested in the subject, and for wrong reasons, I would say.
This is why when this whole Donald Trump wave started, I could see how these racists were being catered to by something that had always intrigued and fascinated them. This is why racist presidents and their racist minions who do nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration do not really surprise me.
Genocidal History
It is well known that United States has always been carrying out nazi policies, even before the term “nazi” was created. If you study their history of genocide and slavery. Study their history of convict leasing, read about the Homestead Strike, the Haymarket Affair, and about the Palmer Raids, and their infatuation on crushing labor and the left. Read up on redlining, segregation, white citizen councils, Bombingham, study their history of forced sterilizations, study their racist immigration policies and quotas, and their continual wars against BIPOC.
I heard about a little BIPOC girl that cried yesterday because she was scared about the rise of the right-wing party here in Germany after the recent elections, and what it could mean, knowing these people’s history. Some of these people, especially these racist men, who constantly give you dirty looks and then quickly want to call the police at any sign of trouble, truly have no shame.
Hearing this story only angered me more than I already am. I will never forgive these people for all they have put me through in 13 years of living here. I wanted to start a Project to fight racism, but you see its almost 532 years of the same, and the arrogance of some of these people really bothers me. They show no shame. You tell them their history, and they will act like they don’t know, but reality is they could care less. There are several genocides going on at the moment, and people here seem more interested in their Euro Cup.
For the people that are allies, for the good white people (The John Brown’s or Viola Liuzzo’s types) that do fight injustice and go to protests and wish to fight for a more equal and just world, please continue fighting! Please continue to listen to people that are dealing with racial traumas and are suffering, please and if needed be “That Shoulder” but please do not start the racial gaslighting because then you are only hurting the person even more. JUST LISTEN!
Disgusting racist politicians that would say anything to get elected even if it endangered BIPOC by emboldening racists are not an anomaly. They are the people that racist society produce. They are reflections of the society. They reflect the majority thinking in the society, products of their environment. Just look at the people that elected them. Just look at other politicians in the background, seeing that the road has been laid out for them and jumping at the opportunity to say what is on their mind.
A country whose majority of people could care less about the hierarchy system, that systemic racism has in place. Where some are treated as second class citizens and looked down upon. Where the majority of its people could care less who is dying as long as the price of their gasoline is cheap. A country where the majority of its people never seem to question, why their governments are always bombing BIPOC, and instead say evil things like, “why don’t we just nuke them” knowing full well they wouldn’t feel the same if the country they are at war with had a population that was majority white. just study at the disparities in how South East Asia was bombed, compared to Nazi Germany.
So don’t be shocked by these opportunistic, dishonest,nationalist, xenophobic, greedy, obnoxiously racist, entitled, priviledged, arrogant, selfish people. The are just reflections of your society.
The evil we are witnessing on social media is horrendous. The mainstream media is clearly biased, and insensitive to all this suffering. We as a human race have to unify to push for peace.
Recent studies show that, one in every five, or one in every six children worldwide live in a conflict zone; that is totally unacceptable! There is too much trauma in this world! Too much pain! When will the healing start?
The Weapons companies whose stock rise as humans are blown to pieces commodify suffering. They have no conscience, they have no shame. If the United Nations can’t stand up and say, Enough! Then what the heck is its purpose?
We live in a world, where they have the audacity to tell us who we can show solidarity for, and who is and who isn’t a worthy victim. We live in a racist world that values some lives over others. A world where some histories are repeatedly told and others never mentioned. We live in a world where some countries with great Public Relations/Propaganda Departments, actually make their people believe they are a good force in the world; meanwhile hiding their imperialistic histories and murderous present actions.
Growing up as a child in the United States and being flooded by war propaganda my whole life. I remember I used to think that “I wish I get to see World War Three, in my lifetime.” I really wished I could partake in the war and do my part to defend my country. And I blame all that on the indoctrination and brainwashing that is growing up in the empire. From the G.I. dolls and cartoons to every Hollywood film, that would show the white male returning from World War 2 a hero. I thought to myself, “That is what men do.”
I now find myself in a situation, where I may one day have that ill-thought desire come true, and I really wish it never comes true. I have studied the crimes of many countries, especially my own, and I now realize that war is evil, and that like the great essay written by General Smedley Darlington Butler, states”War is a Racket.”
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
I really wish we lived in a world where human beings interacted with others peacefully. I wish we lived in a world where no person had to flee their country due to war or famine. I wanted to write this post today because I was deeply upset yesterday while watching news clips. Besides the war coverage what also disturbed me was having to listen to clips of reporters dehumanizing BIPOC people.
These reporters had somehow given the recent Ukrainian refugees a face and identity that they have lacked to give refugees from many other countries. They even went out of their way to vilify BIPOC refugees, not emphasizing why those BIPOC refugees were seeking asylum in the first place. What civilized/western countries or western backed countries were bombing their homes?
These reporters were downplaying and dehumanizing BIPOC refugees, and exclusively siding and pleading the case for Ukrainians fleeing their countries today, stating “These are not your typical refugees.” Why would they compare the merit of any desperate people? The reporter continued with“because they were Christian, and they were white.” Another reporter mentioned the victims’ “blue eyes and blond hair” while another spoke of them as “European and civilized.”
I found this all truly disgusting. What this all told me is that the corporate-owned media and the board of directors of those companies are just as racist as always. And since I have come to understand that fascism is a revolution from the top-down, I am reassured that these multi-national corporations still cling to their eugenic agenda as tightly as ever. If you have the time just go back and study what robber barons funded the eugenic ideas taught in schools that have helped turn the world into a pigmentocracy. Study the worldwide Eugenic Conventions and the infamous pseudo scientific ideas of eugenicists like Francis Galton, Charles Davenport, Madison Grant, Harry Laughlin, Eugon Fischer, Alfred Ploetz, Ernst Rudin, I recommend starting with the book “War Against the Weak” by Edwin Black, and “Imbeciles” by Adam Cohen.
Why Now?
I also had to stop and ask myself the questions, why am I seeing all this support for this one country, and I did not see the same when western countries were attacking and killing millions of Muslims the last thirty years? Why did I not see Iraqi flags and the colors of the Iraqi flag everywhere I went? Why didn’t major sporting organizations boycott teams from aggressor countries back then? I thought about it long and hard and I think I understand what their ultimate goals are.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war, why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come backto his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Herman Goering
I have lived in Germany for over ten years now, and I can honestly say I have never seen so much racism in my whole life, and that is saying something because I come from the so-called United States of America (a settler-colonial project of land theft and genocide) that somehow forgot to teach the kids the origins of that land and rarely discusses the original inhabitants.
I wanted to start this project to help people, but to be honest, I have grown very discouraged. I feel that some people do not want to change, and never will. They will always believe they are smarter or better than others, and their arrogance is something that infuriates me. Why should I waste my energy on them? I have better things to do with my time. These people clearly do not want the world to change since it works in their favor. They do not care about the physical and psychological damage their evil system of racism distributes against BIPOC people.
They don’t see the tears of the children because their parents get into heated exchanges with racist people trying to pick fights with them or insulting them on the street (knowing full well that their hands are tied.) I have come to feel that, this must be the German way of attack. They see you are at work and again have your hands tied, and that is when they choose to strike, push you or even threaten your life and insult you. I have come to the opinion that many of these people truly have no shame about their dirty history and their dirty present because if they did they surely would not continue to act this way. Maybe they should ask themselves, “Why are so many Germans living all over the world?” Where was your Xenophobia then? And what of the crimes committed by those German Settlers around the world?
I should have known it since the moment I first visited back in 2006 and they treated me like crap and me and an Asian-American woman were the only ones who were pulled to the side and reprimanded in a foreign language and had to listen to some scumbag voice his opinions about us angrily.
Why is it that so very few Germans in the western sector were castigated for the Holocaust? A very select few were punished for the evil that killed an estimated 11million people of which over 1.5 million were children. Why is that? Could it be because if they dug deep enough, they would find out the roles played by Robber Barons, so-called respectable organizations, and major corporations? Could it be that companies were “Too big to fail” in the midst of a Cold War, and therefore Germany needed to be helped back on its feet?
In regards to the Holocaust, I constantly hear people ask, “how could this happen in such a civilized society?” It seems people that ask this question are not aware or don’t bother to take into account the crimes committed in the German colonies of Cameroon, Togo, Deutsch Somoa, Tsingtao, German Southeast Africa, German Southwest Africa, among others. In German Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia) alone one would read about how between 1904-1908 there was a genocide committed against the Herrero and Nama peoples. Also, you will come across information on how anti-miscegenation laws, already existed there. If you study further you would learn about how Germans transported people on cattle trains and had concentration camps in their German South African colony, the concept was not new to them, and they also had what is believed to have been the first extermination camp on Shark Island.
Another detail worth noting is the fact that German Universities and anthropologists, people like Eugen Fischer were already demanding skulls, and even whole human heads with the skin left intact as if some sort of trophy or something that they could display to others stating how different (meaning superior) they were to these people of darker complexion.
They Need to Teach Us More
I have read where Herman Goering at the Nuremberg Trials asked the French, the English, and the Americans “Who are you to try us?” I found this so interesting, and agree that those countries should tell the world their histories as well. These countries have all committed genocides and have all stolen land, and have all helped maintain white supremacy all over the world.
After learning about the pseudo-science Eugenics and having learned how Adolf Hitler was greatly influenced by people like Madison Grant among others, and after further inquiring about the international eugenic conventions and the horribly racist eugenic ideas taught in universities, that most likely played a role in the worldwide pigmentocracies we see today, I feel that those racists that funded that movement should also be blamed and more attention should be paid to that subject as well.
I continue to do homework on I.G. Farben and I truly feel that their role should be taught more in detail when discussing the Holocaust. I mean how can they not teach you about the conglomerate that was the biggest chemical company in the history of the world at that moment in time, and what role they played in rearmament, experimentation on human subjects, funding, slave labor? What was their relationship to Zyklon B (the prussic acid used in the gas chambers)? What was their relationship to Auschwitz? Who was American I.G. the U.S. subsidiary company that was taken over by the U.S. government for “Trading with the enemy” in 1941?
Why is it Happening Again?
People keep asking how can the world (Germany included) be tilting to the right? Well, there are a lot of reasons. For one the disparity between the rich and the poor just continues to increase. People that are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table are in dire straights and they are frustrated. Many people believe that fascism is a revolution from the top down, and I would agree. Multi-national corporations are out to make a profit and do not wish to curtail their behavior. If our food loses nutrients so what. If neo-liberal policies are gonna hurt us all with the austerity and the privatization, they are getting ready for a backlash from us, they know the unrest is coming, and so in their minds they feel, they need to divide us, and if that doesn’t work then prison and the surveillance state is the backup plan.
They are planning for civil disobedience, they are planning for the climate refugees, war refugees, and economic refugees. We are all at risk, but they must separate us and turn our anger against other victims of the same madness, and the right-wing will serve as their buffer zone, they will be fed more scraps and will be used as the muscle to keep the others in check. That is their plan. They make wars to kill BIPOC people and to sell their weapons. The corporations will not change course. They will stick to their plan.
Europe and its colonizers in the Anglosphere went out and exploited the resources and labor of people in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Then they have the nerve to not teach the real history and omit the whole thing. The hypocritical west has fooled the world into believing they are the model of civilization has continued on rewarding the dictators and their cronies, that crush all hope of fair distribution of the wealth and resources of countries worldwide. And the same hypocrite west after causing the problems and the poverty in those same countries in the global south, still have time to make wars on those countries and then militarize their borders and add the extra financial incentive of For-Profit Immigration Detention.
Tell me again why is it that the Spanish language is spoken in twenty different countries? What role did Spain play in those countries? Were there any reparations or even apologies for the theft, genocide, and rape? How are people from Latino America treated in Spain today? As a member of N.A.T.O., what role have they played in helping create refugees? What role have their financial institutions and corporations played in creating poverty? And tell me again, just why do Ceuta and Melilla belong to Spain? (The same criticisms can be made about many European countries and their offshoots in the Anglosphere and their historical behavior).
Ask a person suffering fromRacial Trauma or Racial Battle Fatigue just how “multiculti (multicultural)” they feel this racist German country is. I can see why many of them saw an appeal in Donald Trump, I really can, since his first state of the union address was on the 30th of January, which is the same date Hitler came to power, and so people with right-wing persuasions worldwide flocked to his corner.
Recommended Reading Material:
The Kaiser’s Holocaust – David Olusoga
War Against the Weak – Edwin Black
They Thought They were Free – Milton Meyer
I.B.M. and the Holocaust – Edwin Black
The Destruction of the European Jews – Raul Hilberg
Trading with the Enemy – Charles Higham
Hitler’s American Model – James Q. Whitman
The Nazi Connection – Stefan Kühl
The Nazi Hydra in America – Glenn Yeadon
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler – Anthony C. Sutton
The American West and the Nazi East – Carroll P. Kakel
KL – Nikolaus Wachsmann
Hell’s Cartel – Diarmuid Jeffreys
The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben – Joseph Borkin
Hitler – Ian Kershaw
The Devil’s Chessboard – David Talbot
Factories of Death – Sheldon Harris
Imbeciles- Adam Cohen
School for Barbarians – Erika Mann
The Splendid Blond Beast – Christopher Simpson
Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli
If I had to reflect on it, I would have to say, that I have experienced racism for most of my life. I can remember back in the 5th grade, when a kid told me that I was brown, therefore to him, I was “yucky.”
I remember a girl putting me down, because the color of my skin. I can also remember a relative showing me the whitest part on his body, (his leg), and telling me, that he was from Spain, and that another relative of mine, was an “india”, (spanish for Indian, which is what the Spaniards, wrongfully called the Natives of the Americas).
Sometimes the racism I witnessed happened to others, like when I was in sixth grade an African American student was doing the Pledge of Allegiance, and the teacher kicked his leg because it was sticking out too much for her liking. I never did forget that moment. It felt like for some reason this Euro-American teacher, did not like that student for some reason, and was Looking for excuses to make his life hard.
I remember as a kid in my late teens and how since I was never taught, my people’s history, how I felt kind of strange, when a co-worker told me, that Mexicans were just a bunch of Indians, and I thought to myself, “no, we are Mestizos meaning we were Native mixed with Spanish“, like that spanish mix, made us better. Where did that idea come from?
Every person of color that I have talked to, has told me that they were also told, “to find a blanquito, or blanquita (In other words to get a person with European roots, so that in their belief, this would better our gene pool), to better the race“, as if something deep inside us, has told us, that dark skin is not beautiful, or that they are more beautiful than us.
I remember countless run-ins with police, and how they would “Stop and Frisk” me for just the way I looked. How sometimes they would stop me, three or four times a night. I remember when a police officer pulled me over, and asked me why was I in a specific neighborhood, and if they did not have contact lense shops in my neighborhood, implying that I did not belong in that specific neighborhood.
In my lifetime I have been called many derogatory names, I have also heard my fellow Mexican people, called many not so very nice names, even by the former U.S. President Donald Trump, and I am tired of it. It is not fair how Anglo-Saxon’s get different treatment than I do, when it comes to airports, border checkpoints, or at embassies.
The damage caused by racism is permanent. People of Color have to carry the abuse, we take it home, and bring the stress home to our loved ones, or may even explode on the wrong people, because that pain after building up inside you for so long, eventually comes out.
Why Won’t They See
I really wish people would see the harm White Supremacy has caused and continues to cause. I do not understand how some Anglo-Saxons would choose to ignore this history and present day happenings, and continue believing in White Supremacy, after all the damage this dangerous way of thinking has caused. Millions of people have been murdered because of these ideas. How could some people be so heartless? Racism is the behavior of bullies.
I have experienced racism my whole life, and I hate it. I wish we lived in a world where we saw each other as equals, I really do. But after years of watching how the right-wing has been rising worldwide, and after watching how these overtly racist politicians fuel the flames of racism so that they can benefit from it politically, it all really sickens me. I don’t believe that these opportunists politicians know, or care about the damage they cause with their tactics. It seems like they could care less about how their hatred emboldens other white supremacists who then terrorize people of color who are forced to live with the abuse, the threats, and the violence.
These racist politicians do not care about the mental health issues, the anxieties, the depression, or the stress related health issues, high blood pressure problems they help provoke. They do not care about most people, but they clearly do not care about the well being of people of color who are forced to live their lives, just taking in the abuse condoned by these same racist politicians.
Catch 22
People of color have the choice they can either fight back or ignore the abuse. One reason people think twice before fighting back is that there is always the threat of jail, and so if they do not want to end up going to jail with the possible added risk of losing their jobs and not being able to pay their rents, and even more seriously complicating their lives.
These same people usually out of fear for further consequences usually choose to walk away, and ignore racists and their hurtful words and actions. These victimized people usually end up swallowing this anger. They must find alternative ways to deal with all the anger and all the injustice. They more or less are simply expected to live with this “Institutionalized Racism” that seems invisible, or all too normal to others, who are comfortable and not affected.
Oppressed groups are even critized for how they choose to protest injustice. When police shoot African-Americans they are only adding to the continued genocide that started over 400 years ago; and African-Americans wishing for the terror at the hands of the police to stop, are critized by insensitive and racist people for not “Staying in their place,” as if they are supposed to forever bow down to white supremacy.
Racist politicians and their loyal followers seem to wish for these oppressed people to just shut up and live with it, and they wish them to stop bringing up the past, because Euro-Americans especially hate being reminded of the true manner in which their country came to be. The U.S. for example, is not a land made up of immigrants, it is a country build on genocide, stolen land, theft, slavery, exploitation plain and simple, and this can apply to many countries in the so-called Anglosphere and other former european colonies.
Racist politicians do not care about the young men being incarcerated for long periods of their lives, so that they do not reproduce, because after all that is their main eugenic objective, that and feeding the Prison Industrial Complex.
Fueling the Flames
Racist politicians will help blame marginalized populations for all of societies ills, when in reality these marginalized people are the same people whose countries have been torn apart and exploited by the countries with the stronger economies that the poor are now fleeing to.
But the citizens of these european countries, and their colonial offshoots are blind to this fact, and would rather just worry about their own frustrations or short comings and blame all that is wrong in their lives on people of color or minority groups.
Instead of doing some research and finding out why the world is the way it is, and how it all works, and who this system serves and instead of tackling real issues affecting us all as a human species e.g. climate change. The oligarchs, politicians and the media continue to turn us on each other. It keeps the game going and makes things easier for them.
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