Mark Maynard | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp

By Mark | January 25, 2020

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 […]

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, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II | 7 Comments

Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti is mocked by young Trump supporters in Washington, DC

By Mark | January 19, 2019

If you’ve been on social media today, you’ve likely seen footage of a smirking, young Trump supporter appearing to mock a Native American drummer in Washington, DC during yesterday’s Indigenous Peoples March. If the Native American man in the video looks familiar to those of you who, like me, live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, it’s because […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Photographs, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-abortion, Black Hebrew Israelites, border wall, Catholic, Chris Stranad, Covington, Donald Trump, Doug Coombe, Eastern Michigan University, Huron, Indigenous Peoples March, Kentucky, Little Rock Nine, MAGA, March for our Lives, Nathan Phillips, native american, Nick Sandmann, racism, Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, veterans, Vietnam War, xenophobia | 536 Comments

On the road with my 13 yer old daughter… marching for stricter gun laws in DC, learning about the holocaust, and getting to know one another as adults

By Mark | March 26, 2018

In an attempt to further radicalize my 13 year old daughter, I whisked her away on a last-minute road trip to D.C. Friday afternoon so that we could attend the big March for Our Lives demonstration. Having spent much of the past few days behind the wheel, I’m pretty exhausted at the moment, but I […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged "We could have bought a lot of guillotines for $700 billion", #MarchForOurLivesDC, Abraham Lincoln, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Barbara Kruger, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Chicago, Clementine, country ham, crying, Dorothy Avery, Elie Wiesel, Florida, guillotines, Guillotines Not Guns, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, Hirshhorn, holocaust, Lincoln Memorial, MAGA, Make America Great Again, March for our Lives, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Mark Bradford, Martha Mitchell, Morgantown, NRA, parenting, parenting advice, Parkland, Pickett's Charge, road trips, Ron Mueck, tears, Washington, Watergate, West Virginia | 21 Comments

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My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp

Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti is mocked by young Trump supporters in Washington, DC

On the road with my 13 yer old daughter… marching for stricter gun laws in DC, learning about the holocaust, and getting to know one another as adults

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