Lest We Forget
Image: "African". Courtesy of africa at Freedigitalphotos.net
Image: Still frame from the Nazi newsreel "The Burning of the Books"; Berlin, 1933. Used in the film "The Nazi Plan", compiled by the US military as evidence in the Nuremberg trials, 1945.
( Repository: National Archives & Records Administration [ Public Domain ] )
Dread Locks
Dread locks me in fear
'Cuz my vision ain't so clear.
Brushed all aside,
Can see far and near.
Now what I can see
Is quite disturbing to me:
All the loathing, hate and fear.
What's our world gonna be?
Burn a pile of books?
Hate people for their looks?
Spit and call them names?
Treat others like they're crooks?
The fear is deep and wide.
The dread does us divide.
His dreadlocks he brushed aside.
Their dread locks their hate inside.
So then what are we to do?
Show that our weakness we outgrew!
Destroy the well of hate
And praise the righteous few.© 2012. Nu Mil 3 Design
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."--George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense
Image: "Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, 1938." US government work product by John Vachon for the U.S. Farm Security Administration.
( Repository: Library of Congress [ Public Domain ] ).
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."--George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies
Image: Mass graves at Choeung Ek, one of the many "killing fields" in Cambodia used by the Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979.
By Brad Barnes ( Own work ) [ CC-BY-3.0 ],
via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: The remains of some of the estimated 1.7 to 2.3 million Cambodians out of a population of about 7 million that were executed by the Khmer Rouge.
By Michael Darter ( English Wikipedia [1] )
[ CC-BY-SA-2.5 ], via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: "Crematorium in Auschwitz I"
Courtesy of Bukephalos ( Own work ) [ Public Domain ], via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: The mob lynching of Jewish-American
Leo Frank (1915) after his death sentence for a murder conviction was commuted to life in prison by the governor of the state of Georgia in his belief there had been a miscarriage of justice,
via Wikimedia Commons [ Public Domain ].
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