Negroes don't speak up here.
Over the weekend, a person posted what I called racist
content, so upon reflection, I have to apologize for that knee jerk
reaction. I should have pointed out the
person was an antisemite and a racist.
The person posted an image depicting a white Aryan male taking a woman
of color from behind while performing the Nazi salute. The only wording visible was "Nazi
Nigger," a derogatory combination of words. When addressed, the person just said "sticks
and stones" referencing the opening lines of a child's fable.
Ask any Jew if the word Nazi in the context of the image would
cause discomfort from knowing that word caused 10 million deaths of "mud people"
6 million of them of the Jewish faith.
What happened to their culture still sends shock waves throughout their society
when fascists deny the Holocaust ever existed.
For Afro-Americans, the word Nigger is not just a word it is associated
with lynching, church bombings, cross burnings, and firebombing homes and
businesses.
The two words married in the image and the cavalier attitude
of the person shows how little that person understands words do and can hurt because
of what groups of people have had to survive in the aftermath of those words
existing. Lynched people typically had
the word Nigger on a sign hung around their neck or attached somehow to their
bodies. In the 20th Century,
many of the lynching pictures published in the local newspaper with little
children (white children) in their Sunday best upfront and center to the spectacle
smiling and pointing.
I was banned, from a room because of a posted image which
was tasteless and very inappropriate.
Glad there is a wide selection of places to enjoy MIC. You can ban, but you cannot silence the truth
about racist and anti-Semitic comments or images.
