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77,068 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Hitler’s Black Victims The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era
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Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in … Continue reading
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77,068 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
African Americans and Nazism
You tell me that hitler is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan.
You tell me mussolini’s got an evil heart.
Well, it must-a been in Beaumont that he got his start.
Cause everything that hitler and mussolini do
Negroes get the same treatment from you.
You jim crowed me before hitler rose to power—
And you’re still jim crowing me, right now, this very hour.
Yet you say we’re fighting for democracy
Then why don’t democracy include me?
I ask you this question cause I want to know,
Howlong I got to fight BOTH HITLER—AND JIM CROW.
— Nana Langston Hughes, “Beaumont to Detroit,” 1943. -
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