How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow

When the Nazis set out to legally disenfranchised and discriminate against Jewish citizens, they weren't just coming up with ideas out of thin air.

They closely studied the laws of another country. According to James Q. Whitman, author of Hitler’s American Model, that country was the United States.

In particular, Nazis admired the Jim Crow-era laws that discriminated against Black Americans and segregated them from white Americans, and they debated whether to introduce similar segregation in Germany.

“America in the early 20th century was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world,” says Whitman, who is a professor at Yale Law School. “Nazi lawyers, as a result, were interested in, looked very closely at, [and] were ultimately influenced by American race law.”

“One of the most striking Nazi views was that Jim Crow was a suitable racist program in the United States because American Blacks were already oppressed and poor,” he says. “But then in Germany, by contrast, where the Jews (as the Nazis imagined it) were rich and powerful, it was necessary to take more severe measures.”

Because of this, Nazis were more interested in how the U.S. had designated Native Americans, Filipinos and other groups as non-citizens even though they lived in the U.S. or its territories.

In 1935, Nazi Germany passed two radically discriminatory pieces of legislation inspired by American laws: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. Together, these were known as the Nuremberg Laws, and they laid the legal groundwork for the persecution of Jewish people during the Holocaust and World War II.

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=16758

Donald Trump and Byron Donalds racial stunts are for white racists, not "outreach" to Black voters.

Trump's alliances with rappers and Donalds praising Jim Crow are about validating MAGA's racist stereotypes.

Because we keep hearing so much about how convicted felon Donald Trump is doing "outreach" to Black voters, much of the press assumed that was what was going on with a recent Bronx rally where Trump made a big deal of appearing with a few D-list rappers who are facing criminal charges of their own. "Courting Black Voters, Trump Turns to Rappers Accused in Gang Murder Plot," declared the headline at the New York Times, which characterized the event as "clumsy" while taking Trump's purported overtures to Black voters at face value. Most outlets did, even though the rally itself was rather small.

This follows Trump and his media allies repeatedly claiming that his 2023 mug shot, from his arrest in Georgia on charges related to his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election, would endear him to Black voters. "That’s why the Black people like me," Trump said of his mug shot," because they see what’s happening to me happens to them." Fact check: While there are a couple of Black defendants who were in the conspiracy, the vast majority of people charged with crimes related to the coup or the January 6 insurrection are white.

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/10/donald-and-byron-donalds-racial-stunts-are-for-racists-not-outreach-to-black/

The Year in Hate & Extremism 2023.

We tracked 1,430 hate and extremist groups in 2023. Hate has no place in our country.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/02/17/splcs-intelligence-report-amid-year-lethal-violence-extremist-groups-expanded-ranks-2015

There’s a new movement in the world of conservative Christianity. It is relatively opaque and unknown, but its power and influence is growing, and if you are unaware of the NAR, it is time you learn about them, because they are on a path to change Christianity, politics, and culture in the United States.

It’s not hyperbole in the slightest to say that, if they succeed, politics, religion, and culture will be dramatically - and more worrisome - perhaps permanently changed.

In the Bible, the town of Ziklag is where the character David lives for a time while he’s being persecuted. It’s his safe space. It’s a place from which David can plan counterattacks.

On this edition of Your Call's Media roundtable, ProPublica investigative journalist Andy Kroll discusses how Ziklag, a secret organization of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump just made his most dictatorial threat yet at an unhinged rally full of theocratic “Christian” extremists. This is a red-alert, folks…

In this eye-opening episode of Project 2025, A Warning, Molly Jong-Fast interviews Mary Ziegler, a UC Davis School of Law professor and the author of 'Roe, the History of a National Obsession.' They discuss the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a roadmap for a potential Trump administration aimed at centralizing presidential power and enacting extreme conservative policies. The conversation delves into specific plans affecting reproductive rights, social security, climate protections, and more, and highlights the alarming implications for American democracy. Don't miss this critical analysis and share to spread awareness.

00:00 Introduction to Project 2025 03:02 Key Figures Behind Project 2025 04:51 Interview with Mary Ziegler 14:00 The Comstock Act and Its Revival 20:08 Heritage Foundation's Strategic Shift 24:46 Potential Consequences and Public Response

A Century Ago, America Built Another Kind of Wall.

There was a time when even Ivy League scientists supported racial restrictions at the border.

In early 1921, an article in Good Housekeeping signaled the coming of a law that makes President Trump’s campaign for immigration restriction seem mild by comparison. “Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend,” it read. “The dead weight of alien accretion stifles national progress.” The author was Calvin Coolidge, about to be sworn in as vice president of the United States. Three years later, the most severe immigration law in American history entered the statute books, shepherded by believers in those “biological laws.”

The anti-immigrant fervor at the heart of current White House policymaking is not a new phenomenon, nor is the xenophobia that has infected the political mainstream. In fact, race-based nativism comes with an exalted pedigree — and that pedigree is something we all should remember as the Trump administration continues its assault on immigrants of specific nationalities.

They started swarming across America’s border, millions of desperate families fleeing poverty or seeking political asylum.

But many people were repelled by their presence. Some warned that the country was facing a “genetic invasion” and that whites were “losing the demographic game.” Another said, “There will no longer be an America for Americans.”

One leader ( Charles Benedict Davenport - 1866 TO 1944) even thought of a radical way to keep them out.

“Can we build a wall high enough around this country so as to keep out these cheaper races?” he asked. They started swarming across America’s border, millions of desperate families fleeing poverty or seeking political asylum.

The country was gripped by a demographic panic. That fear, along with mounting anxieties about crime and poverty, led to one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

At first, Davenport only wished to bar the immigration of people afflicted by specific disorders — epileptics, the “feebleminded” and others of similarly troublesome (to Davenport) disability. But soon he was caught up in a racialist whirlwind initiated by “The Passing of the Great Race,” a book by Madison Grant, the founder of the Bronx Zoo and the era’s most prominent conservationist. A bilious stew of dubious history, bogus anthropology and completely unfounded genetic theory, Grant’s work persuaded Davenport and others that the American bloodstream was threatened not by suspect individuals, but by entire ethnic groups.

Davenport was president of the American Society of Zoologists in 1907 and 1929. In 1910 he founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, and he appointed Harry H. Laughlin to direct it.

It was an ugly time. The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”

We like to think that the eugenics movement is far behind us and a campaign only of Nazis. Not so. Rhetoric about immigrants "poisoning our blood" harks back to America's extremely popular eugenics movement of the early 1900s.

The Nazis based their own sterilization law partly on the sterilization laws passed by a majority of U.S. states, partly on model legislation crafted by American Harry Laughlin. Hitler called The Passing of the Great Race, by American Madison Grant, his "Bible." U.S. immigration restrictions of the time, which prevented many Jews caught in the Nazi scourge from finding refuge in America, were in part an outgrowth of the eugenics movement.

https://truthout.org/articles/the-last-time-the-us-wanted-a-wall-70000-people-were-sterilized/

https://ariarmstrong.com/colorado-eugenics.html

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. Dates: Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865

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