Nazis Studied America’s Racial Laws: A Warning for Our Democracy Today

Nazi leaders examined U.S. segregation, immigration quotas, and eugenics laws as models. History proves democracies can drift. Vigilance and civic engagement are essential now.

#JohnFetterman has got to go!!! WTF! 2028 can't come soon enough!

#Fetterman backs #SAVEAct, says voter ID 'not #JimCrow'

"U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) broke with his party again this weekend by backing a Republican-led effort to require identification when voting in federal elections."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fetterman-backs-save-act-says-213643237.html

#USElections #UselessDemocrats #VoteEmAllOut
#WomenVoters #TransVoters #VoterDisenfranchisement

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am the only child of my father who was born a crime (1966). the mothers of his older sons were afroboricua. my Puerto Rican twin & sis were born after the Loving case was decided, so they weren't crimes.

#USpol #JimCrow #racism #miscegenationLaws

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman (December 3, 1889 – January 13, 1939), an American political activist and functionary for the Communist International (Comintern). Time Magazine once called him “the reddest of the blacks.” As a young man, he lived in the Yucatan, during the Mexican Revolution, which radicalized him and introduced him to anarcho-syndicalist labor organizing. After this, he moved back to the U.S. and became a leading activist and speaker during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote two works of fiction during this period. In 1918, he met anarchist cartoonist Robert Minor, who inspired him to visit the Soviet Union. Soon after, they both joined the Communist Labor Party of America. In 1927, he moved to Moscow, where he worked as a teacher at an English-language school. However, in 1937, he was caught up in The Great Purge, and was sentenced to hard labor in a Siberian prison camp because of his Trotskyist affiliations. There, he died of malnutrition in 1939.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #jimcrow #africanamerican #civilrights #anarchism #communism #trosky #ussr #soviet #gulag #prison #starvation #mexico #Revolution #harlem #LovettHueyFortWhiteman #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which occurred on February 8, 1968 in South Carolina, when highway patrolmen opened fire on black student protesters from South Carolina State, who were trying to integrate a bowling alley. They killed 3 African American students and wounded 33. These were the first student demonstrators killed by the police in the 1960s. 2 days prior, students held a sit-in at the bowling alley. When the police arrested them, hundreds of students arrived from Claflin College and South Carolina State to protest the arrests. As tensions grew, the governor called out the National Guard and Highway Patrol to “keep the order.” 9 cops were charged with deprivation of rights under color of law, but all were acquitted. But one of the student protestors, Cleveland Sellers, was convicted of several riot charges. In 1960, students and others marched through Orangeberg to protest segregation. Police and firefighters attacked them. They arrested 400 and imprisoned them in outdoors in a cattle stockade.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #orangeburg #massacre #racism #jimcrow #africanamerican #civilrights #police #policebrutality #students #protest #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon

Today, for Black History Month, we remember events of February 6, 1956, when white students rioted at the University of Alabama against court-ordered admission of its first black student, Lucy Autherine. After Brown v the Board of Education, the University of Alabama was forced to accept African American students. Even though they let Lucy attend classes, they still barred her from all dormitories and dining halls. Lucy attended her first class on Friday, February 3, 1956. On Monday, February 6, 1956, riots broke out on the campus. A mob of more than a thousand men pelted the car in which the Dean of Women drove Lucy between classes. They threatened her life and stoned the University president's home. Afterward, the University suspended her from school “for her own safety.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #jimcrow #alabama #segregation #lucyautherine #integration #riot #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/when-restrictive-economic-zoning-leads-to-racial-segregation/D0694B17608AF86F3620FC6F4BB7DF34 “these results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods” #zoning #segregation #JimCrow #racism #USPolitics #housing #shortage

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.

In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.

You can learn more about the Modern School Movement here: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/

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Today in Labor History, February 4, 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1943, she joined the NAACP, eventually becoming the branch secretary, where she investigated cases and organized protest campaigns around cases of racial and sexual violence. In spite of local policies to disenfranchise African American voters, she still registered to vote and did vote from 1943 on. In 1955, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in a planned direct action against Jim Crow, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistorymonth #civilrights #rosaparks #directaction #jimcrow #racism #BlackMastodon

NOW PLAYING == Garrison Hayes on #BlackHistory: The Man Who Killed #JimCrow

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-dFls0znTMQ

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#ICE #America #Jimcrow

A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

"None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

"American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

"The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

"Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

"I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

"But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

"Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up-call-for-white-americans/

#AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

Today in Labor History February 1, 1960: Activists began a series of sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woolworth’s denied service to 4 black college students because of the color of their skin. In response, they refused to move from a lunch counter, setting off a series of similar protests. By September, 1961, over 70,000 students, white and black, had participated in the sit-ins.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sitin #racism #jimcrow #greensboro #civilrights #students

I was listening to the #DailyZeitgeist podcast yesterday talking about how #US people compare #ICE to the Gestapo when Hitler and his Nazis used US #JimCrow laws as a basis for their antisemitic laws after the Reichstag Fire, and this #GenX memory popped in my head.

https://youtu.be/KUXb7do9C-w?si=2yvR8CoCAH3QQWm4
#uspol #ICEOut

Today in Labor History January 30, 1956: Klansmen bombed the home of Martin Luther King Jr in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. No one died in the bombing. However, the explosion destroyed the King’s porch and blasted out their windows. At the time of the bombing, King was giving a speech at the Montgomery Improvement Association at Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s First Baptist Church. No one was ever indicted or convicted for the bombing. The authorities did indict King, and 80 other activists, for “interfering with business,” during the bus boycott and demonstrations.

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Happy MLK Jr. Day.

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkxi_ni1Jg4kCFDHiGu74RCYqCg6OXM1hTt?si=AM5NDdsSKHCdfxYV

#fascism #Americanfascism #whitenationalism #MLKJr #AbolishICE #whitesupremacy #MartinLutherKingJr #JimCrow

#Sinners #JimCrow #blues

Wunmi Mosaku on Why ‘Sinners’ Is the ‘Greatest Love Story Ever Told’

The British Nigerian actress’s turn as the hoodoo-practicing love interest has given her a brighter spotlight. She is trying to stay grounded through it all.

“Sinners” is one of those rare modern blockbusters that fans are dissecting on a near literary level. There have been paragraphs dedicated to its symbolism, social media threads about its cultural themes, and hours of podcasts delving into lines and scenes. Wunmi Mosaku isn’t exactly seeking out the takes.

'I haven’t gone searching for anything because I’m very mistrustful of the internet and I’m scared of what I might see,' Mosaku said in a video call from her Los Angeles home.

Mosaku’s stirring performance as the hoodoo healer Annie is the soulful core of 'Sinners.'

The fact that it’s Mosaku, 38, in the role seems fitting: The film is a period horror-drama centered on romance as well as a meditation on grief and a musical. Her acting résumé reflects each element."

https://archive.ph/sh4qb#selection-627.0-639.291

#Sinners #JimCrow #blues

"Hailee Steinfeld on What ‘Sinners’ Taught Her

For the Ryan Coogler-directed vampire tale, 'this character is what pushed me to sort of truly live in myself,' the actress said.

(. . .)

Of course, the new project was 'Sinners,' ostensibly a vampire tale set in the Jim Crow South but more deeply an exploration of race and American history through the lens of blues music. Steinfeld, 29, plays Mary, a former love interest of Stack, one of the Smokestack twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan), in a performance that reviewers have praised as 'a revelation' (The Guardian) and 'never better' (Slate). She is among the many strong-willed characters Steinfeld is known for lending a sense of humanity. But inhabiting Mary, a mixed-race woman who passes for white, also asked Steinfeld to reflect on her own heritage. She specifically thought of her grandfather, who was Filipino and Black."

https://archive.ph/qnLtf#selection-505.0-509.129