What Jim Crow taught Hitler

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James Q. Whitman's book "Hitler’s American Model" argues for a surprising admiration Nazi Germany had for American race laws during the 1930s. Despite being steeped in democratic principles, the U.S. had established race laws that caught the attention of leading Nazi jurists. They even visited America to study its legal and economic systems closely. While both nations started the 1930s with deeply racialized social orders, they diverged sharply: America, after much civil rights struggle, moved toward inclusivity and diversity, while Nazi Germany escalated toward mass genocide. Why?
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[@djredc]

Those who truly love their country know the importance of acknowledging not only the good but also the bad. As they say those who either ignore or don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. Thank you for your hard work.

[@armonwilliams4735]

Another solid piece of work! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 BTW, Hitler wasn't only influenced by American Jim Crow laws, he was also heavily influenced by American Manifest Destiny (it was go East for the Nazis), and he was also heavily influenced by the American phenomena of eugenics. He went so far to say, "Your book [eugenics] is my Bible".

[@elleanna5869]

Absolutely yes. Madison Grant was even stricter than Hitler for whiteness chart 😳 it deserves deep thinking that modern racism (chart of so called "races") stem from what was considered "science" in Positivism after Darwin theory. Science in void of ethics can create hell on earth.

[@JulyMoon82]

I remember learning about that in a documentary I watched on Hitler long ago. I think it may have been on the history channel back when they used to put together really good documentaries.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

There is a school of argument that without Germany taking American Jim Crow laws to their ultimate extent and logical conclusion, and without the American public after the war being made so aware of where the concept of a master race could lead and having lost so many fighting that ideology the post-war civil rights movement could not have been as successful as it was. We had a generation of leaders who had fought in that war now making decisions on just how just American society could afford to be to all of its citizens. So without Jim Crow no final solution without the final solution no ending of Jim Crow, like many things in history a full circle.

[@freethinkinmelanin6795]

@@clementmckenzie7041 but there was no final solution. The Civil Rights laws passed were just the government saving face and pacifying black people. And not too long after the passing of those laws you had Iran-Contra and the flooding of black communities across the country with drugs. In reality you still had/have a great deal of injustice/mistreatment of black people for there to have been a so called solution.

[@finanzalex]

Thank you for sharing such a valuable information. This is very scary that the so called the of the free was the incubator of a evil movement like the Nazi regime. with two demonic elements like Jim Crow and Eugenics.

[@JulyMoon82]

James Baldwin once said, "i love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." Sometimes we have to criticize and analyze the negative aspects of what we love, so that what we love can grow into what it could be. The US has a lot of room to grow. We've made a lot of strides, but the road is long and we have not yet reached the optimum destination.

[@snowyrox3331]

The US will never reach it's optimum destination if that destination has been set by people with unrealistic expectations who don't understand how societies work. This goes for both the Nazis and the social justice millennials of today.

[@justmyopinion9883]

Well said. Thank you.

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

GREAT reporting as always. You should put your bio as an EDUCATOR of history because the amount of hard work and research you put into it is AMAZING! Well done.

[@nytn]

You are so kind, I’m truly grateful. I’m a former teacher 😅😅

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

@@nytn Haha Well that makes sense. I’m just giving credit where credit is do. Much love and respect from Somalia 🇸🇴. Here in the West, I’ve never understood why people are so obsessed with race based on a color since it’s unnatural and artificial. All throughout history people have always identified themselves through their tribe/ethnicity and nationality, but never a color. It boggles my mind why this even still exist today in the West. Anyways, continue to the do the amazing work as usual. Take care.

[@theunwantedcritic]

The Nazis were also looking at the treatment of the Native Americans. The genocide, the reservations, the kidnapping of children, etc.

[@l-kin3480]

It was apartheid South Africa that studied Canada's indigenous laws. A certain country in the middle east not only supported South Africa but set up walls based on apartheid

[@luddity]

@@l-kin3480 And it's still illegal there for a Jew to marry a non-Jew.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

South Africa did the same thing when they were designing South Africa's Apartheid system. They actually came to the American South to study America's Apartheid system with the plan to improve it.

[@clintongraves8806]

I read South Africans went to Duke University in the 1940’s.

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[@alienprepper5918]

South Africa has become a great country the last 30 years.

[@darrellm9915]

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[@joecutro7318]

Thanks, Danielle. My 2 takeaways are 1) it is in the IDEOLOGY behind these historical events where the lessons lie for us and future generations. 2) we need to keep this conversation alive in media cycles through work like yours in order to avoid more "learning opportunities" and put this chapter behind us. My dad, who as I have mentioned here, cleared Nazi concentration camps post VE Day. When he was in his early 80's, he heard there were people who didn't believe the Holocaust had happened, so he prepared and delivered a speech on Veterans Day in the town where he lived and was a judge (Kinderhook NY) to share his lived experiences of being a first responder in the camps as a young soldier. This was one of my my proudest days as his son. I wish it had been recorded. Once again, thanks for your content.

[@JulyMoon82]

I'm often perplexed by people that are adamant that the holocaust didn't happen and that it's historical propaganda. Unfortunately, I'm seeing people popping up with the same theories and ideals regarding American slavery, despite the amount of historical evidence that exists and is accessible. The amount of wilful ignorance is astounding. I can't imagine what your dad and others that saw firsthand what was happening during the holocaust, must think about people that say, "That didn't happen!"

[@clementmckenzie7041]

I am sure it is recorded somewhere, it would be a treasure to find. The Library of congress collected several hundred of these kinds of first-person accounts of liberating the camps.

[@bomgodd]

right. so i believe the "neo" we have here arent new at all, just a dormant seed come to germination.

[@theonetruetim]

Great video Smart contributions Learning out here, in the public, +1.

[@nytn]

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[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

@NYTN can you do a video about Mostafa Henfy who is an Egyptian immigrant with a dark skin complexion that wanted to classify himself as “Black” in America in his job application but was rejected and placed as being “white.” He actually SUED the U.S government for trying to classify him as “white” for decades. This is another example how colonial race based on a color is absolutely delusional. Keep up the GREAT work as always.

[@elleanna5869]

I studied US enthusiasm for Darwinism unwanted (by Darwin himself , very likely) spin off , European "scientific racism" . It's important because people think often that racism has always been the way we know it and it developed in the US , but it's really "modern" and "scientific" stuff. Sounds weird I know

[@clementmckenzie7041]

Yes, I was aware, The South Africans did the same thing. They studied American Jim Crow laws and segregation when they designed their Apartheid system. A few countries used the American system as a template.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

@@elleanna5869 Nah, American racism predates Darwin's theory of evolution. They grow out of American religiosity. In order for a Christian nation to hold people in bondage and still feel like good Christians they needed to come up with a theological theory of race that would justify the practice especially as the enslaved Africans converted to Christianity placing their enslavers in the condemned position of enslaving other Christians. Which of course was forbidden. Later in the 19th scientific racism was added to America's already existing religion-based justifications.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

Racism is the history of America, that is just how it was. Pretending it wasn't doesn't help continue the path to making it less racist, it retards, slows, and limits that progress. When you start pretending it didn't happen or it wasn't so bad or it was a way it actually wasn't is when you start to recreate the conditions for repeating those mistakes and injustices. The price of Freedom is vigilance. That seems to be the lesson the present times are trying to teach us. We can't let bad actors drag us back to the bad old days by selling us on the idea that they were the good ole days

[@nicolem889]

I grew up as a kid in the 90s and even my parents lived under segregation and Jim Crow. Now people will try to water down those two phenomena but in doing so they will certainly over look the level of racist a society had to be whereas a person can’t walk to where they walk to walk and spend their dollar in certain stores. Imagine the level of control that society would have had on the populous. People can’t even imagine not being able to shop at a department store or having to be off the interstate at certain hours, or not being able to enjoy dining rooms and cafes as you wait for your train. Imagine being unable to get gas or go to a convenience store or to use their public restroom. Again, this was my parent’s generation.

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

Well Said Yes, you are absolutely correct 💯 "People will try to water down" is so well stated and is the entire truth‼️ Today WS and many immigrants are trying to water down history.

[@CanYouHandle12inches]

Hell, did you see how people (mostly whites) lost their minds when the government shut the KKKountry down due to the Pandemic? And that was for good cause not based on skin color.

[@tommies3772]

I love that you touch on all cultures. Thank you and keep up the great work. 👍 ❤

[@shawnt797]

Great content!

[@batya7]

"Learning in public." 💛💥🧠 Glad I can hear your process.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

🤯 Danielle, this emoji captures my sentiments after hearing what you revealed here. I don't even have any real comment, because hatred and separation of persons gives me great pain. I'm thankful for you and the "deep dives" that you've been taking to uncover these mysteries of American history. ♥

[@phoenixr6811]

Good show ☺Writer Isabel Wilkerson goes into depth about this same subject.

[@sparker7768]

I "second" and "third" the importance of Ms.Wilkerson's well-documented, well written work. Must reads for anyone learning about this area of American history.

[@genehammond7239]

Keep schooling us all it's a much needed reminder for all people !!!

[@lynnhooley7608]

itler also studied American eugenics.

[@gazoontight]

Wow. No words. Keep making these videos.

[@kikosfreethinkersforum3704]

Great channel and content as usual Danielle. Keep up the great work!

[@nytn]

Thanks neighbor ☺️☺️

[@bomgodd]

thanks. didnt know this channel for long, but youre great!

[@nytn]

Hey, thanks! That's really kind of you

[@KingAlexv]

This is interesting information

[@cynthiapickett7403]

Let's not forget the eugenics movement, which peaked around this time (save the occasional headlines over tubal ligation and other forced sterilization, the US government have largely made an effort to outlaw such practices by the 1970's)-- which was also a huge factor.

[@nytn]

I wish I had linked my eugenics video, I’ll try to do that later!

[@gjad813]

Since high school, I’ve been fascinated with WWII Germany and also monarchies. It amazed me how such a powerful force could materialize from a relatively poor country so fast. Nazi Germany had every finger on the pulse of war while simultaneously being on the cutting edge of science and technology. It didn’t make any sense to me how they were pulling all that off. I remembered the saying “Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear”. I think that saying has a lot to do with perspective or perception. I used to believe that everything in this world was properly explained via mass media and books etc. The reality is that we have always been fed either some semblance of the truth or out and out lies and that’s how the world has worked for a very long time. The 0.0050% control the world and I’m not talking about billionaires. It’s the very few who own literally everything. The rest of us are so deeply entangled in the game of survival, the truth probably wouldn’t matter to us anyway. There is an old KZbin video called “Everything is a rich man’s trick”. It gives a bit more insight into what I’m saying.

[@lancelane979]

He based and justified his whole policy of expansion "lebensraum" on the US policy of "Manifest Destiny" . He was a huge fan of Dime store westerns and his favorite was by Karl May, Winnetou. The hero from that series was "Der Shatterhand" and he frequently referenced this character in his general meetings and is one reason why several of his generals attempted to assassinate him. He modeled himself from this character all the way from the way that he carried his gun on his hip to many decisions that he made. If you get a chance read "Table Talk" which was an interview with him by Trevor Roper. It just goes to show what knowledge in the hands of someone insane can do to the world. Also his racial classification was based on "phenotype" and on stereotypes of what different races looked like. Of course, he modeled his rule also by other historical empires like the Romans and ironically thought of himself as "Arminius" the Germanic Tribal chief that helped stopped the Romans. He also emphasized the Germanic tribal traditions and used that ethnicity as the model German cultural traits.

[@cbbcbb6803]

I think South African Apartheid laws were based on the segregation laws of Alabama. Our loyalties and patriotism should not only be mutual, they ahould also be reciprocal! We, all of us humans around the world, are not there yet. Something we need to work on.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

They were, the South Africans actually sent delegates to study American segregation and make a report on how it could be improved on in south Africa

[@j.cooper6305]

I'm new to the channel and somehow came across your channel accidentally or through the algorithms I guess, but either way I'm glad I did and I'd like to take a moment and THANK YOU for your work in inspiring me to take the breadcrumbs that you lay and research further on my own! I too as an African American male who loves history and am a voracious researcher of my heritage wanting to know more about my ancestors and what they had to deal in this country in order for me to even exist. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you and please continue your ministry despite the negative words of some that would love nothing more than to extinguish your light. God Bless 🙏🏿

[@nytn]

thank you! Take those crumbs and follow the trail. The good, the bad, the ugly. We need to know our own family history. So great to have you here!

[@Chestermcfly420]

I am an Italian Jew my mother is a Russian Jew and my father was born in Italy, so I relate to all of your content. I love what you do and I love how you’re teaching people that everything isn’t black-and-white it’s more gray than people would even like to imagine, thank you for your videos. Thank you for your contribution to educate people about their history and thank you for being you. I appreciate everything you do from one Italian to another. I love your videos. Thank you for making this one.

[@Kindred04]

Wow. Danielle, I appreciate all of your work. However, I must say when you describe the horrific race relations that have existed here since the founding of this country as mere "growing pains," it does give me pause. Also, some of us don't rely on the media to tell us what's happening in terms of race relations, as we have our own lived experiences to draw from.

[@nytn]

I wish I had said it differently, I agree it was much worse than that

[@doylecole]

We must never forget that the politicians of both parties strive to keep us as a people divided. The KKK and Jim Crow were used to keep Democrats in power in the South. Northern Democrats were repulsed by the open racism and worked for the Civil Rights of people of color, even going down South in the Freedom Marches. The Republicans supported LBJ's Civil Rights Act of 1964. My Father experienced racism in the 1950's and 60's, but supported the Democrats that were discriminating against him. I experienced racism in 2004 when a cafe in Clovis, NM, would not serve us. No Injuns.

[@doylecole]

We must never forget that the politicians of both parties strive to keep us as a people divided. The KKK and Jim Crow were used to keep Democrats in power in the South. Northern Democrats were repulsed by the open racism and worked for the Civil Rights of people of color, even going down South in the Freedom Marches. The Republicans supported LBJ's Civil Rights Act of 1964. My Father experienced racism in the 1950's and 60's, but supported the Democrats that were discriminating against him. I experienced racism in 2004 when a cafe in Clovis, NM, would not serve us. No Injuns.

[@wendyraby3134]

She has said a few things that have given me pause. Imagine finding out a grandmother passed as whiite and still treating racism casually or as a thing of the past. I don't really think she should be speaking on the past if she is in denial about the present. Also pointing out our problems is not hating America, you can't fix what you refuse to recognize.

[@nytn]

Wendy, respectfully, I dont treat any of this casually or deny the present. Im very proud of my work on this channel and willingness to learn and grow.

[@iangreenberg5101]

Hitlers American model is a free 5 hour book on audible. I subscribed to your channel bc i love history and you make it a easy listen

[@karenblack2869]

Certainly not a great way for the USA to be remembered as having been a role model. As a nation the US still has a ways to go, but I have faith, as every day I see and speak to so many good humans here - of all nationalities and identities.

[@AaronPIA]

Have you ever addressed the music gear that's behind you? Who is the musician in the family?

[@nytn]

Everyone but me! I used to be able to play classical piano but I forgot that along with my 2 semesters of college Latin.

[@brenkelly8163]

Hitler rose to power in a democracy and was not directly elected, his party was. His Socialist party then formed a coalition where they formed a majority with previous ruling old school party. Hitler’s all-time high polling was only 44 percent. He was not a majority. Germans did not have some unified “Aryan” ideology but pockets of it existed, especially in the South of Germany, different from the libertine north of Berlin. In that way, a dominant white racist minority echoes America’s past, and present. But America was born divided and states have always acted differently. The Constitutional Compromise corrupted the principles set forth in the Declaration, and through the three-fifths clause it handed power to the Southerners, who had most of the presidencies, making all of but John Adams and his son (the two northern abolitionists) not just slave owners but acting in ways that allowed for pro-slavery expansion. Many of the Southern states resisted implementing the principles of the Declaration, in stark contrast to states like Vermont that abolished slavery in 1777 in it’s foundational constitution, Pennsylvania a year later, and Massachusetts by judicial decisions in 1781 based on their state constitution’s ideals of natural inalienable rights, liberty, justice and equality. The Southern states never implement such equality clauses, and instead lived under the autocracy clauses made under British colonialism that allowed from whites to segregate marriages, deny permission of movement, and gave the power to white owners by law to whip or kill enslaved black Americans that looked “rebellious.” Such a power given to one set of citizens to kill another fellow citizen was never given to any other country I know of. Those legal atrocities that empowered whites over enslaved black American, like the Negro Act of 1740 in South Carolina that served as a template, lasted until 1865. Only through military defeat were they forced to make for the first time state constitutions that reflected the American constitution. The white (MAGA conservative) Democratic Party whites then started overthrowing those laws forced on them by the victorious northern (civil rights liberal Lincoln) Republicans, and from 1870 onward the whites who gained control through killing their political opponents enacted laws in each of the 15 Jim Crow states at their own discretion stopping interracial marriages, free movement, literacy, fair labor contract negotiation and restricting voting. They killed their political opponents openly. For example in 1878 in Louisiana they killed 4,000 black Republicans who were organizing to vote or registering to vote. The white (MAGA) Democrats then changed the constitutions starting in Mississippi in 1890, openly stating it was to repress the negro vote once and for all, leaving whites in power forever. The Supreme Court decision of 1890 allowed the “Mississippi Plan” to move forward because the mention of race was not explicitly stated. Hundreds of thousands of legally registered black voters in each state. In Alabama the numbers went from 187,000 registered black American Alabamans registered in 1900 to 3,000 in 1903 after their new constitution was ratified. By this drastically anti-democratic method of insurrection over 35 years to repress the black vote through legally acceptable Supreme Court state constitutions, most of those 15 states eliminated all the power of their political rivals and became the “Solid South”, and all blue, all white, single party system. Until just before the 1964 election when those MAGA blue senators quit and went over to the Republican Party in the South which was technically still active but really a shell with little power. The illusion of democracy and incremental change persists, falsely, because of the repression of the historical narrative and the facts (most of which exist on the record). Instead, many states went through painful democratic regression, not progression. Louisiana had a county in 1838, Rapids, where blacks voted. It made whites planters angry but it happened. They continued to vote all the way up until 1894 before the new constitution passed, even though rampant one Party Bourbon Democratic Party cheating went out along with murder and threats of black Republicans. For the first time in 1900 it became a one-party state of near complete control of white conservatives who killed and cheated to get there and repress the black vote. That is no PRO-gression but REgression. Incremental steps away from democracy. Cracks started appearing the 1940s and continued until 1964 when the Big Shift occurred and the southern Democrats quit (most of them-Senator Jim Eastland who owned a cotton plantation full contractually enslaved black Americans stayed in the Party and endorsed Jimmy Carter, who didn’t want his endorsement because it would make the New Democratic Party look white racist). The Americanization movements changed school books starting in the 1910s with financial backing from the Klan (and others). A fused view of triumphant white unified America was born, blotting out the sins and resistance to democracy that openly continued, especially in the now autocratic single party 15 state South. History books never looks backed since and stay fused with this triumphalist view of American power and economic growth, where technological advances means moral and racial progress. I love America too. I just don’t like whitewashing I grew up under and want to see the reality laid bare.

[@peter_meyer]

Hi Danielle, in order to understand the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, I think it is important to know about the perennial anti-Semitism around the world. From the NAZI rally in Madison Square Garden to prominent writers back then. A good start, IMHO, would be the ARTE (a european public TV channel) documentation "The books Hitler didn't burn" ("Die Bücher, die Hitler nicht verbrannte"). It's 90 minutes, so not necessary something to react to on YT, but worth watching. If i remember correctly Whitmann also mentioned that NAZI lawyers also checked for South African rules about segregation and found the US ones to be more fitting to Hitler's thoughts. A very important video here on YT to me is from Megadweezel, an american soldier who served in Germany back in the days. The section "expectations" of his video says a lot. The part when he says "the longer i stayed, the more it scared the crap out of me" is sooo undervalued. (video code 7zItJkCr0RQ) Greetings from Germany.

[@talesofthechrysalis]

Similar to policies of apartheid developed in S. Africa 👀 Nothing is as we’ve been taught Great job!

[@Cedricbennettjr]

Yes!!! You have to read the book called "Hitler's American model" by James Q. Whitman

[@jcortese3300]

I think it just boils down to the fact that where you are matters less than in what direction you are moving. Someone exerting effort to go from A to B doesn't have a lot in common with someone seeking to go from B to A, even though they may appear to be in the same place in a snapshot. The US system isn't perfect, but it does at least try to reward movement toward justice.

[@nytn]

Thank you for sharing this way of seeing it

[@jrutt2675]

You need to do a video on Henry Ford and how his book and ideology helped shape Hitlers ideology!

[@nytn]

that's a great idea. I did do a video on eugenics, but talked mostly about Madison Grant :kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWakf6JjirmZrLM

[@clementmckenzie7041]

@@nytn Henry Ford was an excellent example of how compartmentalized racism can be. He hated Jews, but not blacks, he didn't feel blacks were equal to whites but he felt that they should be paid equally and enjoy more equality of citizenship, He didn't feel native Americans and Asians were deserving of that equality of citizenship however. He reminds me of Elon Musk

[@jamepearson]

@@clementmckenzie7041 Henry Ford certainly have a distinguished seat among the White Supremacy table. My gosh, just not enough seats to accommodate such ignorant minds, and horrible people.

[@sheepbay3]

You and masaman need to do a collaboration and combine forces and make more Race videos. 😁

[@Myraisins1]

I appreciate the content you are putting out. I have also heard that South African leaders were aware of Jim Crow and that they used it as a model for their own system of Apartheid. Have you heard of this? I don't know if there is evidence since I haven't done real research.

[@cheryljackson5659]

I have also heard this. Thank you for bringing this issue to light.

[@thecrimsoncure8201]

In 1938, P.W Botha was taken on a tour of Alabama. He saw the Jim Crow signs and said this is EXACTLY what SA needed. 10 years later he implemented Apartheid.

[@l-kin3480]

​@@thecrimsoncure8201P. W. wasn't an adult then. Apartheid was started by Hendrik Verwood in 1948 and he copied Canada's indigenous laws

[@stanleyadurant2277]

I really enjoy your program. It's crazy i have saying this for quite some time! And most say well that's true? What? Come on! "You are dividing us?" Well if that's the case Why haven't they put this in the history books?

[@KingAlexv]

I remember 12 years ago there was a couple who lived around my hometown, had a group called the “Blue Eyed Ones” it was about on how Europeans who have blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin are considered the superior race and those Europeans who don’t have blue eyes and blonde hair were considered a failed race. They were uneducated.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

How did they feel about all the African Americans who have blue eyes and / or blond hair? How did that fit into their theory?

[@krono5el]

both light eyes and skin are degenerative traits in humans.

[@Casey2262]

​@@krono5el < 💩 👨🏾

[@elleanna5869]

@@krono5el pretty racist statement

[@krono5el]

@@elleanna5869 unfortunately its true tho

[@robertwalker8453]

Your depth of research and breath discovery is truly amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In a time where it is becoming more common that history and truth is being concealed by the state. I look forward to your content. And no, be honest and truthful does not mean you hate America; it means you love Her dearly. As my mother used to say, “If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t tell you.”

[@nytn]

That’s a beautiful way to put it.

[@robertwalker8453]

@@nytn Thank you 🙏🏿. My mother was a beautiful lady.

[@jackrosario9990]

In some States the one drop rule didn't apply.

[@nytn]

That's right, that's why my family left Louisiana to move to NY

[@hansemmen3862]

Hitler took a lot from how the native people were being put in camps during the 19th century, not to forget how pesticides were used against migrant camps in the early 20th century

[@robertcammon5969]

There are still people alive who experienced that racism and segregation. The policies of the Jim Crow Era have had a generational impact. Just tell the truth. I do think America and the rest of the world were truly hypocritical when they forced Germany into facing their wrongs when America has never faced or reconciled their own wrongs. Germany actually did a better job at reconciliation. You would think that Jewish communities would push heavily for the reconciliation of Blacks and Indians in America. Especially since our tax dollars go to Israel.

[@FCntertainr]

Union troops herded newly freed black slaves and starved them in devil's Gulch in Mississippi civil war end

[@akatheheretic3014]

Your Synopsis . . . 🤔 Not Bad , my dear young lady . . Not Bad . 😉👌

[@maureenjackson2041]

How shameful that a dictatorship learned how to oppress certain people from a so called democracy. Posted from Britain

[@psilocyspin]

it is wild that anyone could say they love amerikkka, particularly 6 months ago

[@raulrambome]

1/32 black is impossible to find in paperwork. Its like tracing someone lineages back in the 1200's AD. Thats not possible. So it's used for something else. I figured out how it's used and it stopped some bad stuff from happining if you know , you KNOW

[@japeri171]

I really liked something you said:you are not trying to diminish America.Mistakes have occurred in any nation. We must learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and move forward.

[@jamepearson]

Too bad America think she's too grand, and pick and choose what is deemed a mistake or not. It's not becoming, and as she reflects on her way to having a damn seat somewhere, maybe she fully understand the damages done was way more than just an oopsy made.

[@lilythomas869]

Hitler's bible was also Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race.

[@nerdlarge4691]

Yup. That book has influenced a lot of contemporary historians and anthropologists. Look at reluctance to acknowledge the role of Black Africans in Ancient Egypt as other than slaves or Nubian invaders for instance.

[@jcjcviews]

I love America? America is an abstract idea. Racism is at the heart of American culture and society. Only when there is no such thing as a "white" people will we begin the long march towards freedom. Whiteness is a metaphor. It is not a people. Hence, anyone can be a racist in their interpretations (justifications or acceptance) of why injustice exists. The primary function of the concept of race is to divide and conquer. Asking someone not to believe that one's race is not an actual thing is equivalent to asking someone to think that women and men are the same.

[@jdavis1214]

I also read Hitler admired the confinement of Native Americans to reservations.

[@clementmckenzie7041]

There were actually several American extermination movements over the course of American history. Especially regarding Native Americans and Enslaved Americans and their descendants. In America where African Americans were concerned it was impractical. The big difference between Nazzi Germany's racial ideas and the United States was capitalism. Capitalism in the U. S. could tolerate racism and segregation up to a point,. However, after the point of separate communities, anything more was economically unacceptable. African Americans were a source of wealth and labor throughout their historical existence in the United States. Any radical reduction in the African-American population would have had profound economic consequences. Extermination or total removal as had been done to various native tribes would have been an economic calamity. So it never happened here. Though some removal attempts were made. Liberia is one that comes to mind.

[@Tmomiksmo]

You shouldn't have to preface discussing actual history with statements like" I love America" and that "we've come a long way." The truth is the truth. Why is it seen as america bashing or unpatriotic to tell the truth? Is it that hard for us to look at ourselves in the mirror? We can talk about other nations but have too much bravado to honestly heal ourselves. We could be so much further along. Teach the hard stuff so we can get cured once and for all. That alone would merit lots of pride without any glaring hypocrisy. Imagine a graduating class that knows the truth AND feels accepted, connected, and undeniably patriotic. "I love America" would be automatically understood. As it should be.

[@Galidorquest]

This is quite depressing, but informative...

[@jimstultz3345]

South Africa had apartheid laws similar to Nuremburg laws so I guess its contagious .

[@stanleyadurant2277]

The truth hurts and it does not always fit into an individual feelings. Information like this has help me to put into prospective atrocities other groups have experience. Creating a conversation! Because if lie to a group of people so long by withholding Information of course your going to have some unhappy individuals? Ex. Why did they Germans first sent an apology 115 years later for Shark Island concentration camp 1907 South Africa? It's makes it a little bit easier to learn from and move on was put in the books around the 1920's compared to 2020? It's just a thought?

[@marianneeckertjensen4723]

Perhaps you should also look into the science of the 1930'ies. A lot of energy was used on the topic of differences between races, sizes of the skulls etc. Not any mayor differences but science can always be used as an argument for segregation. :/

[@itskarl7575]

Germany had a constitution too, you know. Just like the US Constitution, the Weimar Constitution also emphasised individual liberty. The US Constitution can therefore not be seen as somehow preventative of a potential Holocaust. Indeed, it did nothing to prevent slavery (and was in fact written while slavery was in full practice), to say nothing of the near-extinction of Native American tribes. What befell the Jews in Germany could absolutely befall any minority demographic of the United States. The reason it didn't back then is because the blacks were not seen to have any power, and anyone trying to claim as much would lack credibility. The South was very effective at preventing individuals from rising in society, which in turn meant that black people as a whole were not viewed as a threat. The Jews, however, have always been viewed as successful in spite of being a minority. And for a minority, they have been _very_ successful. But with success comes jealousy, and moreover they also look like the majority white populations. These details make for very fertile grounds for conspiracy theories. Jews, then, were distrusted and feared - and viewed as a malicious threat to society. Crucially, though, Jews could not be imprisoned merely for being Jews - while they were still citizens. The way the nazis could get around the Constitution was precisely to revoke their citizenship. That way, they could do whatever they wanted. The exact same thing could happen in the US as well, if a minority group is simply declared ineligible for citizenship. The only protection against this is the 14th Amendment, which a totalitarian government can do away with. And if a party like the GOP under a particularly fanatical leadership like Trump attains a super majority in Congress, as well as the Supreme Court (which is a much more plausible scenario than many people think), excising the 14th Amendment would be a cinch. Remember, the Weimar Republic was a constitutional republic, just like the US. The Weimar Republic had checks and balances, just like the US. Besides, people _were_ sent to concentration camps in the US during WWII simply for their ethnicity. No, there was no extermination going on or even planned, but neither was there any extermination going on or even planned in Nazi Germany, either. They didn't _start_ with the Holocaust, they built up towards it. The more one finds one can get away with, the more one will push the limits. It is crucially important to speak up against injustices, and to never be complacent because "it could never go that far here". The people who perpetrated the Holocaust, with their own hands, never thought they'd go that far either. It was all a gradual process.

[@KingKappa]

Wow...that was a joy to read. Couldn't agree more!

[@averydavis4050]

Did Apartheid derive from Jim Crow?

[@trollinmartin7260]

Judah Philip Benjamin Judah Philip Benjamin served as the Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State for the Confederacy. The first Jewish-American to serve on an executive cabinet in American history, he has received the title “brains of the Confederacy” by scholars for his apparent position as Jefferson Davis' right hand.

[@debbiemalone8252]

Still is if you're different

[@MCT0601]

America has not changed! You have to look at the economics of wealth, power and control and the same people have maintained that status quo! From the Plantation to the Corporation!!! We live in a MATRIX (red or blue pill) take one!!

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

*Hello Danielle* 👋🏾 @11:11 "Whether you are a proponent of White supremacy or Black supremacy" (1) What is Black supremacy? (2)What are the origins in America of Black supremacy? (3)How does this idea of Black supremacy work and how has Black supremacy harmed non Black people in America? (4) What are the characteristics of Black supremacy? (5) Has so-called Black supremacy stopped White supremacy in any modern day legislation and laws?

[@nytn]

How I meant it: if you are a person who says X color of people are better than another group, that’s a problem. :)

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

@@nytn *UNDERSTAND* in the United States of America there is absolutely NO Black Supremacy‼️ There are some prejudice Black Americans, but NO Black American Supremacy. Black Supremacy is a *gaslighting terminology* from uncomfortable white supremacist and their Allies who are uncomfortable with being called out and highlighted for their history of inhumane behavior and oppression of Blacks, Native Americans, Hawaiians, Native Alaskans, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos‼️

[@emmanuelluna5880]

Very well said, the Japanese had a superiority complex in Asia, and I firmly believe that Americans have an exceptionalism belief that is doing damage to relationships with countries like Russia/China/N.Korea/Iran.

[@pj7309]

Theft occurs regardless of race, family or "friend." The spirit of Caine is alive and well.

[@MisyeDiVre]

The Nazis were alson particularly enamored with American eugenics.

[@greatsol2444]

“Growing pains”. Hilarious. More like pains from murder, terror and torture.

[@nytn]

Yes, I wish I had said that differently.

[@theakaitaiyo]

Can you do a commentary on how North Africans and West Asians (i.e. Middle East) were categorized as White in America? It is interesting and disturbing how America was able to separate 2 continents Africa and Asia to create a pseudo-continent to define a racial group.

[@nytn]

It's a really good topic! I did one on the Armenians but North Africa would be a great deep dive

[@Galidorquest]

You could just say Arabs.

[@nemomarcus5784]

You might want to read the book "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race By Edwin Black"

[@SeasideDetective2]

It should be noted that the "blood quantum" system upon which Hitler drew did not originate in the Antebellum South, but was itself borrowed from Spanish America's "casta" classification, with its precisely defined categories of "criollo," "mestizo," "mulato," and "zambo" - which in turn derived from the "limpieza de sangre" policy that measured the levels of North African ancestry among Spaniards. I know that there are many Americans out there - and, in fact, I have met some of them - who bristle at the idea that American society has gotten better, because they honestly believe we've gotten worse, and that "the past" (whenever exactly that may be) is preferable to the horrible America we have now. Of course, most of these people are in favor of racial equality or at least say they are, so if you challenge them on that point they'll often insist that the racism of the past has been exaggerated by anti-American critics. I actually sympathize with them on that point, because I don't want anyone believing that racism was literally the only thing white Americans of the past thought about or considered important. While I know it's morally cowardly to do so, I like to point out examples of ANTI-racism - or at least non-racism - in order to "redeem" America's past. I remind people that only in the 11 former Confederate states was segregation absolute and publicly enforced (which is true) and that nearly one-fifth of the states never even outlawed interracial marriage. It's cherry-picking, yes, but I still believe it's important to find ways to vindicate the past. If you continue to dishonor the past, you're really dishonoring yourself, because you're a product of the past. I'm not saying that American history should be mindless hero-worship, but it should strive to be as idealistic and progressive (in the old-fashioned sense of the term) as it was in the past. One more thing: the USA was NEVER the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Our historical trajectories were just too different for that to ever occur. I'm also quick to debunk accusations of "genocide." There was never a "Final Solution" for Native Americans proclaimed by the U.S. government, even though that arguably came about piecemeal.

[@jrutt2675]

The book of Deuteronomy is the orgin!

[@jrutt2675]

The U.S. is worse, what America are you looking at! Keep a straight face and tell me the U.S. is in far better state than or was 80 years ago. I do not thin so!!!!

[@gabrielgarza8283]

It’s funny to bring up the final solution because this document had so many grammatical errors and misspellings that no one took it as anything but a piece of Allie propaganda.

[@jrutt2675]

@@gabrielgarza8283 True!

[@j.theeanomaly471]

Everything you said is irrelevant

[@Piggly618sf]

Look at the climate ,Offae...

[@OllieMissouri-is6ei]

Learning? Stay away from DiSantis. He is the total opposite.

[@makeyyyy7890]

He the next Hitler

[@Gemtiger614]

I understand your speaking about the relevance of Jim Crow law, Hitler, and Nazi Germany. The black caricatures in the thumbnail and within the video aren't necessary.

[@nytn]

Thank you for taking the time to comment.I feel like it's important to show the character, most younger people probably have never seen this part of American history

[@nytn]

I decided to change it after thinking over what you said:)

[@veronicaharris8541]

Why is she so disturbed? Same thought process

[@craigbrowning9448]

James Baldwin: "The American Sense of Reality is dictated by what Americans try to avoid." True about Racism, also true about Climate Change.

[@reesesm3730]

You are wittingly not equally showing the equivalents of both atrocities thus, not given due diligence to the Africsns and Native Indisns both were destroyed by European and thus White American complicity, and causing the holocaust. You absolved the USA to protect their Constitution that excluded Indians and Africans. Both genocides have to many parallels differing in slightly modalities but same results.

[@theviolator818]

Yea southern DEMOCRATS

[@jrutt2675]

Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23:8 The third generation of Edomites and Egyptians may enter the assembly of the LORD . Children born to Edomites and Egyptians may enter the congregation of God in the third generation. This is where Christians in the U.S. got these ideas from!

[@johnnyflores5954]

Why don’t you read the Bible, one day, then read mien kiempf, the next day. And see the comparison. - Dr. John Henry Clark

[@miguelcastro8506]

Explain to me what "Black Supremacism" is from an instutional context.

[@nytn]

I’m talking about individual mindsets. “Institutions” are made up of individuals.

[@rroadmap]

Black Supremacism is what my brother and I were victims of in 7th grade & 8th grade. I don't know that it was institutional, but the school district didn't do anything about it. We were kicked and hit and our lunch money was stolen every day, along with pens, paper and anything else of value. They held me down in the locker room and cut off my long blond hair. Fifty ganged up and stabbed my brother because he refused to give up his money one day. Why? Because they were Black and hated us because we were White. They didn't know that on one side of our family, we had ancestors who fought and died to free the slaves or that on the other side we were mixed race. But it wouldn't have mattered. We had White skin and were therefore inferior and to be used and abused. The Bible says man's heart is wicked from his youth. It doesn't matter who is in charge, without God's guidance, things get out of hand quickly. Because so many Christian principles were written into our Constitution and Bill of Rights, along with checks and balances, we have progressed toward those ideals.

[@darrellm9915]

@@rroadmap Yep, there's a certain group of people in the US who are responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime and murders, and it happens to be a particular race. But whenever you try to discuss this reality, people jump down your throat with claims of "WAAYCISM and WYT SUPREMACY" all day long, simply for telling the truth. It's ridiculous.

[@sparker7768]

​@@nytnBlack people can be just as bigoted and prejudiced as anyone else, but it isn't and hasn't been "institutional". That would mean control over established "institutions" like the American education system, the justice system, financial systems, etc. I think I get what you're trying to say, but your use of the word "institutional" may not be as it's been used historically.

[@sparker7768]

​@@rroadmapWhat you describe was a clear example of what it really means to be "bullied", and of course it should not have been allowed to go on.

[@dee.f88]

The German armed forces/Axis powers had Africans, Hindus, Serbians, Craoations, Muslims, Asians and a mix of western Europeans fighting side by side. They were the most ethnically diverse religiously and culturally fighting force in Western military history. The term "superior race" was said by A.H. one time during a speech at the Reichstagt and he was speaking in third person referencimg the J's as the "superior race" not aryans. It was a quote that has been manipulated overtime and used against A.H. like so many others. Do some real homework on the man, he deserves the respect.

[@heirofthenazareen3812]

Yeah, he drove his country into the greatest disaster in its history, wiped out an entire generation of German males, ended up having his country divided and occupied by foreign armies, slaughtered two/thirds of Europe's Jewish population, 30,000 black germans, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the handicapped, and brought poverty and starvation on his people... but he deserves respect. Are you all there?

[@dee.f88]

@@heirofthenazareen3812 wow, lol ok. You've proven your programming strong with your recycled Allied propaganda. Claims of an extermination program directed at homosexuals were seldom if ever heard before 1973. More overexaggerated bs with no hard evidence to back it up, just verbal statements made by the victors. "In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my conscience to appeal once more to reason and commonsense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor, speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on" . July 19, 1940 , A.H.

[@dee.f88]

@@heirofthenazareen3812 I forgot to mention regarding your 1st sentence where you said "he drove his country into its biggest disaster in history." That's true that WW2 was ultimately a failure for Germany, but to place it solely on AH is just not accurate. What is accurate is during the 1930's, AH took a poor, malnourished, and debt stricken nation, and turned it into the worlds largest economy in 6 years time. AH's German Economic turnaround was nothing short of a miracle and the biggest economic recovery by any nation in financial history.

[@heirofthenazareen3812]

@@dee.f88 Germany's economy was not the world's largest economy. Where do you neo-nazis get such nonsense? The US had the largest economy in the 1930's with GDP of over 800 billion 1990 international dollars in 1938. Germany's economy was less than half that. That lunatic's "economic recovery" was no stroke of genius. It was merely weapons manufacturing. Between 1933 and 1939 the total revenue of the German government amounted to 62 billion RM, whereas government expenditure (up to 60% of which consisted of rearmament costs) exceeded 101 billion RM, thus causing a huge deficit and rising national debt (reaching 38 billion RM by 1939. And by the end of the war, elderly Germans were being issued one lump of coal for home heating each month. Yeah, fantastic genius he was.

[@seansimms6693]

I seriously doubt Germany’s economy was the worlds largest..by the way America, out produced them in everything including enriching uranium and spent billions making a nuclear bomb, their economy was only a fraction of Americas…why are you lying about their economy?

[@MikeGrant-zt7uo]

The US right wing kinda wants to go back to this

[@SeekingFreedom369]

Please don’t fall into that right wing left wing crap. AMERICA is a RACIST country that was built on racism. The political stuff is only meant to distract from the main issue.

[@hdoubleye81]

"Let us examine briefly some of the tricky strategy used by white liberals to harness and exploit the political energies of the Negro. The crooked politicians in Washington, D.C., purposely make a big noise over the proposed civil rights legislation. By blowing up the civil rights issue they skillfully add false importance to the Negro civil rights "leaders." Once the image of these Negro civil rights "leaders" has been blown up way beyond its proper proportion, these same Negro civil rights "leaders" are then used by white liberals to influence and control the Negro voters, all for the benefit of the white politicians who pose as liberals, who pose as friends of the Negro. The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the "smiling" fox. The job of the Negro civil rights leader is to make the Negro forget that the wolf and the fox both belong to the (same) family. Both are canines; and no matter which one of them the Negro places his trust in, he never ends up in the White House, but always in the dog house. The white liberals control the Negro and the Negro vote by controlling the Negro civil rights leaders. As long as they control the Negro civil rights leaders, they can also control and contain the Negro's struggle, and they can control the Negro's so-called revolt. The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the black revolution is controlled only by God" Malcom X

[@lynnhooley7608]

The US left-wing kinda wants to go back to this

[@nytn]

I know lots of folks on the right and left and neither would support this

[@aaronwright6058]

They never completely left it. Income disparity determines many things in this society.

[@reesesm3730]

You devote too much time to defending America's crimes to humanity. I understand it would destroy you. And your name bad mouthing your goverment. You should have just shoeed the paralles.

[@tytraulich4987]

Go for the book.