With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
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My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II 7 Comments
Laura Ingram, in a monologue praised by David Duke, says, because of immigrants, “The America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore”
Last spring, when Fox News host Laura Ingraham decided to use her platform to personally attack a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, over a dozen companies, including the likes of Hulu and Office Depot, announced that they would no longer be running ads on the program. Ingraham took an unplanned leave of absence from […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Uncategorized Also tagged #BoycottIngraham, Ace Hardware, advertising, Alex Jones, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, boycotts, Charlottesville, clean white thoroughbred, corporatocracy, David Duke, David Hogg, Donald Trump, FOX News, hate speech, holocaust denial, Hulu, InfoWars, KKK, Lafayette Park, Laura Ingraham, LeBron James, Office Depot, Parkland, racism, racist dog whistle, school shooting, Unite the Right, whiter nationalism 62 Comments
The racist graffiti at EMU, the subsequent protest, and the bigger picture
Last night, as a good many of us were glued to our computers, reading up on the details surrounding the shooting death of Terence Crutcher, the most recent unarmed black man known to have been killed by police in America, someone was apparently spray-painting racist graffiti outside of Eastern Michigan University’s King Hall, an administrative […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged birther, black lives matter, Darius Simpson, Donald Trump, Eastern Echo, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, graffiti, James M. Smith, KKK, racism, Terence Crutcher, white power 89 Comments