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Did you know?
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.
In both the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement, there were people who spoke out against what is wrong. In the Holocaust, regular citizens protested and denounced the Nazi Party, which resulted in them being sent to concentration camps to do physical labor/be executed. In the Civil Rights Movement, people of all races protested the government and the KKK, which resulted in them being arrested or, in the African Americans' case, being beaten by policemen.
On July 23, 1944, the Allies started overrunning many concentration camps in Europe, which led to full liberation of camp prisoners in late 1945. As part of the Allies, the United States took part in this act to free the prisoners. However, this is extremely hypocritical considering what happened in the Holocaust happened in America during this time, and even before then.
All through the late 1800s up to 1965, African Americans were fighting for equality against the government, which was implementing segregation and Jim Crow Laws, and the Klu Klux Klan, who were actively spreading hate and lynching innocent people. This is direct hypocrisy portrayed by the United States because they stopped an aggressive, racist, and violent group of people from killing and oppressing a certain group of people in Europe (the Nazis), but we plainly allowed the KKK to publicly kill African Americans in front of our nation's children. Even today, America continues the hypocrisy that oppression is bad by stepping into Iraq to prevent innocent citizens from being beaten, but oppressing homosexuals and American Muslims who have rights as American citizens. Therefore, America is never really the home of the free as long as we keep preventing world conflicts but not our own.
On July 23, 1944, the Allies started overrunning many concentration camps in Europe, which led to full liberation of camp prisoners in late 1945. As part of the Allies, the United States took part in this act to free the prisoners. However, this is extremely hypocritical considering what happened in the Holocaust happened in America during this time, and even before then.
All through the late 1800s up to 1965, African Americans were fighting for equality against the government, which was implementing segregation and Jim Crow Laws, and the Klu Klux Klan, who were actively spreading hate and lynching innocent people. This is direct hypocrisy portrayed by the United States because they stopped an aggressive, racist, and violent group of people from killing and oppressing a certain group of people in Europe (the Nazis), but we plainly allowed the KKK to publicly kill African Americans in front of our nation's children. Even today, America continues the hypocrisy that oppression is bad by stepping into Iraq to prevent innocent citizens from being beaten, but oppressing homosexuals and American Muslims who have rights as American citizens. Therefore, America is never really the home of the free as long as we keep preventing world conflicts but not our own.