Hey so yeah. This is why you shouldn’t vote third party in a competitive race. Oh, and Angela Green herself had actually dropped out of the race and endorsed Sinema, but people were so intent not to vote for one of the Evil Parties Who Are Exactly The Same that they voted for someone who wasn’t even running.

In case I forget about this post or can’t find it, I’m going to schedule it for November 1st, 2020, two days before the election. Maybe by then we’ll all be dead from a nuclear war, I don’t know, but, in case we’re not, don’t forget this. Don’t vote third party.

[Image description: an infographic of the 2018 Arizona Senate election results. It shows the Republican candidate, Martha McSally, winning with 49.3% of votes, the Democratic candidate, Kyrsten Sinema, just barely losing with 48.4% of votes, and the Green Party candidate, Angela Green, with the 2.2% of votes that could have swung the election.]

Update: When mail-in ballots were counted, it turned out Sinema won after all!!!! This is great news, but the point still stands.

I wanna add just a quick little note not to derail from this but just to remind Australian voters seeing this who havent voted before, but voting third party has no ill effects as long as you fill out your ballot in whole!

Preferential Voting (which i still cant grasp why its not a standard) means that if your first place vote doesnt get through, they take a look at your second vote, and if THAT doesnt make it, they look at your third, fourth, fifth etc.

Yes thank you for this addition!  Voting third party is not a problem in most countries.  (And even in some parts of the US it’s okay, if there’s ranked-choice voting or something similar.)

Why the fuck don’t we have preferential voting in the US yet?

fb is glitching and wont let me post on jewbook :(

now youtube isn’t working either

Instagram for me. Can’t log back in

I can now comment on fb again but I can’t post

It’s so frustrating! I’m trying so hard to post this video of Tiffany Haddish to my Hebrew Hotties group and it won’t let me!

Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.

I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me

red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something

Xoxo

-Designer

I think y’all are missing the point here.

You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn’t change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around

I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”

like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.

I think we found the designer who authorized the corpse dragging effect.

This is so fucking funny lmaooo like???

I’m the biggest bitch about color theory (and ways to effectively break it) but can u imagine having such a pseudo intellectual stick up your ass that you see “this hospitals red jagged brush stroke floor looks like blood” and think people not knowing color theory is the problem

If I was a child and had to go into that room, I’d genuinely think I was going to be murdered

Smh..Why do these kinda things not surprise me anymore?

BUT WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES NOT LIKED ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

lmfao this was right before i graduated all the republicans at yale have victim complexes about being Persecuted Conservatives to the extent that this girl i knew was crying the day after the election because “no one would talk to her” well i wonder the fuck why

they were always bitching about how their views aren’t respected like who the fucks gonna respect you when you regularly pull shit like this

I feel like in a way “serial killers are geniuses” is just part of police propaganda because it sounds way better than “we are fucking lazy and a lot of serial killers know that and target people who we don’t care about because of racism and classism”. 

More often than not, the killers’ “genius” is far far FAR outweighed by police incompetence and indifference.

I always think of the green River killer who targeted sex workers cos he knew no one would care and he was basically correct. “I thought I could kill as many as I want and no one would notice” and they didn’t care til he started targeting non sex workers. That’s not genius that’s just society hating SWs yet again

Jefrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacey were both reported to the police *several different times by several different people* and in both cases the police did exactly fuck-all because the reports came from known gay dudes.

The Golden State Killer literally retired from the police force after he was actively raping and killing throughout his career. Robert Pickton mostly preyed on sex workers and Native women, and the police straight up ignored a report from a sex worker who had escaped from his farm. The only reason they ever investigated him at all was some unregistered gun bullshit.

One of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims escaped and actually found a cop on the street that he asked for help. The cop RETURNED THE BOY TO DAHMER. Dahmer specifically went after men and boys of color because he knew the cops wouldn’t care.

Didn’t even know people are not allowed to give blood if they are gay

That’s been the thing for years. The HIV scare of the ‘80s prohibited us from donating blood. And they still hold that against us despite the fact that that claim has been debunked over and over again.

the wording on the paperwork is “Are you a man who has had sexual intercourse with a man after 1980” or “Are you a woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man who has had sexual intercourse with another man since 1980” (this was a blood drive at my college where majority of the students werent Alive in 1980.) I donated all the time back when I was a virgin, because o- , but now I’m not allowed to. So a better question for this article is “Why won’t baby boomers let queer people donate blood, even though all the blood gets screened for HIV and aids anyway?” though, theres a lot of room for loopholes in the wording of it

This fucking matters. Bias in medicine is bias that should not exist. Fucking fix it.

I want people to know and understand why this was in the questionnaire too.

They did it because they didn’t want to test the blood for HIV/AIDS in the 1980′s. It was kinda pricey, took a few days, and they didn’t want to test it, so they screened for gay men as though that would prevent them from getting HIV+ Blood.

Naturally, people with HIV+ blood still donated (probably without being aware they were HIV+), because it’s not a ‘Gays only’ disease. Straight people got it without ever coming into contact with mlm because HIV/AIDS doesn’t really care that much about your orientation, as it turns out (contrary to the belief that led to this particular rule!).

THOUSANDS received blood  that had HIV+ blood. THOUSANDS died because the blood services decided it cost a little too much to check, and a few days was too long. They’re now legally required to screen all blood because of this, and the test now takes a few minutes (not days).

This part of the questionnaire was meant to ‘weed out’ people who maybe could have HIV/AIDS because they decided only MLM would have it, and only people who were in contact with MLM. For some reason, they continue to weed out MLM specifically from being allowed to donate due to the laziness (Not to mention capitalism) of the 80′s, despite the law having changed, the test being faster, and the test being exceedingly cheaper.

Their original intent never worked, and couldn’t work, and was pointless then as it is now. MLM should be allowed to donate blood, especially as it’s going to be tested anyways (And lbr here, two mlm who have had only each other as a sexual partner ever in their whole lives are probably not HIV+… yet they still cannot donate because of the AIDS crisis in the 80′s)

I legit was willing to donate blood once and got turned away because apparently you’re not allowed to give blood if you’re a guy and have had sex with another guy within a year of donating

There’s part of me that thinks everyone should stop giving blood until they change this. But then people will die without enough blood reserves.

Puppetgate

Those of you who aren’t on autistic twitter are missing out on Puppetgate.

Hold onto your pants because this is going to get UNREAL.

1. A London playhouse reveals that it will be doing a play about a family whose non-verbal autistic child is being sent to an institution.

The autistic child will be represented by a puppet.

2. Autistic Twitter: “A puppet? What the fuck? Like we already feel like we are treated as inhuman things with no voice.”

3. Play supporters: “but Julia from Sesame Street is okay right?”

4. Autistic twitter: “…true but why a puppet?”

5. Playhouse: “because of child labour laws. You can’t ask a non verbal autistic child to perform in a play day after day.”

6. Autistic Twitter: “but why couldn’t a small adult actor just…”

7. Playhouse: “okay and here is the puppet!”

8. Autistic Twitter: “Oh dear god what is that unholy abomination?”

9. Playhouse: “it’s great right? This puppet is going to be SO MUCH more like an autistic child than a human could ever be!”

(Seriously)

https://twitter.com/allinarowplay/status/1092410318960148481?s=21

10. Autistic Twitter: “how could that creepy goblin represent an autistic child better than an actor could?”

11. Playhouse: “Well you see because he’s a non verbal autistic and aggressive so things get pretty physical and also it would be stereotypical and insulting to make a human play an autistic person but if we use an inanimate object it’s fine.”

12. Autistic Twitter: “We are NOT okay with this.”

13. Playhouse: “You haven’t even seen the play. We consulted with so many autistic people.”

14. National Autism Society: “Yeah you consulted us and we told you that this play was problematic and that you should make some major changes including dumping the puppet.”

15. Playhouse: “And we took those notes under advisement.”

16. NAS: “But you didn’t make the changes.”

17. Playhouse: “No. Because you just a read a script and we know you’ll all feel differently when you see it.

18. Autistic Twitter: “So… can autistic theatre critics get free tickets so we can see if?”

19. Playhouse: “No we can’t afford to give out free tickets to critics.”

20. Non-Autistic Critic: “Actually you offered ME free tickets and I turned them down saying you should give them to an autistic critic.”

21. Playhouse: “…Hey look, opening night!”

22. Non-Autistic Critic: “So I went to see it and… it’s really weird. The parents are terrible people and I cannot for the life of me understand why they thought an adult man with a grey faced goblin sprouting from his groin making autistic noises was more realistic than an autistic actor playing the child themself.”

23. Non-Autistic Autism Advocate: “I went to see it and it was SO GOOD. I totally forgot that Laurence was a puppet he seemed so much like a real autistic child in that he was not human and he didn’t even feature that much in the play.

The heartbreak of the family dealing with the tragedy of autism was so real and honest and I have NO idea why people are offended by this wonderful play that portrays autism as a family-destroying evil.

24. #ActuallyAutistic Critic: “GUYS I WENT TO SEE IT AND OMG. Theatre isn’t sensory friendly, non sensory friendly performances, no trigger warnings on anything even though it’s full of ableism and screaming people.

Plot of the play is that the kid is being taken by social services to go to an institution.

Big plot twist is that the mom called them herself because she couldn’t handle the autism anymore.

Puppet just flaps around and occasionally attacks people. I actually really love puppetry but this was messed up and not well done AT ALL.

These people are all terrible. Dad has been taking shits on the Mom’s pillow and blaming it on his non-verbal son.

Puppet gets pinned to the ground in that move that can kill people.

The puppet’s care worker says that autistic people are animals who have reincarnated as people, and he’s still the best human being in this play.

This is play is an ableist shitfest written by allistics for allistics about the tragedy of autism and how it destroys families.”

25. Autistic Twitter: “Sorry, did you say the Dad SHITS ON HIS WIFE’S PILLOW AND BLAMES HIS SON??”

26. Allistic Twitter: “This play was SO brave to be so honest about how awful autistic children are! So refreshing to see a play showing the PARENTS’ viewpoint for once!

(SERIOUSLY)

So that’s where we are right about now. If you want to go be angry the hashtag on twitter is #puppetgate

Here is a link to Shaun May’s amazing and horrifying review of this tire fire of a play.

https://shaunmay.co.uk/allinarow/

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punk isn’t just skinny. punk isn’t just perfect mohawks or aesthetically pleasing jackets. punk isn’t only listening to dead kennedys or black flag. punk is being an individual, having no respect for our fascist authority, sticking up for the little guy even if you are the little guy. punk isn’t just a look or a music scene.

i literally made this because nazis and the alt right can’t be punk

Stop bringing politics into music genres lmao

stop bringing politics…….. into punk????

Here’s Green Day, one of the most popular and well known punk bands.

Wait, but there’s MORE!

Wait, in case you weren’t convinced that the punk scene is political and is all about standing up against fascism and bullshit and racism that America is facing:

shut up. Punk is not just a fucking music genre.

Ok I’m reblogging this again bc when I went to see green day, before they properly started playing they made us make a pledge, at the gig there is to be ‘No racism, no sexism, no homophobia, no donald trump’

Punk has been political long before Green Day existed. The political history of the Punk scene(s) cannot be divorced from the music scene(s) that arose out of them. It is not just about music. It is not just about fashion. The stylistic choices made have meaning and are situated in a social/political context. 

That being said, it’s really important to acknowledge that Neo-Nazis didn’t infiltrate the Punk subculture for no reason. Absolutely, make it clear that Neo-Nazis are not welcome in The Punk Scene. However, part of doing that means confronting how they got there.

Punk music isn’t all about one political stance, though it’s commonly anti-authoritarian. Anyone can utilize the genre to promote their own ideologies, even if a popular intention of the genre is to be anti-authoritarian. Green Day is just one of many bands who use Punk music to spread their ideology. 

It’s not just punk. Music has been used as a form of rebellion against oppression for a hell of a long time. Fuck, centuries even. The people who don’t get this have most likely never been oppressed in their life.

A few protest/”political” songs, and some about specific tragedies, from recent history, that aren’t just punk:

Zombie, The Cranberries

I Know A Place, MUNA

99 Luftballons, Nena

Beds Are Burning, Midnight Oil

Khe Sahn, Cold Chisel

I Was Only Nineteen, Redgum

The Greatest, Sia

Fuck Tha Police , N.W.A

Eve of Destruction, Barry McGuire

We Are The World, USA for Africa

Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud), James Brown

Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell (or more recently, Counting Crows)

Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen

Know Your Rights, The Clash

Holiday in Cambodia, Dead Kennedys

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott Heron

We’ve been doing this shit forever, it’s not new. War, racism, fascism, homophobia… if it’s harmed people, it’s been put into music. It’s an incredibly powerful medium that has changed the world before, and to say that politics, hatred, and tragedy shouldn’t be featured is, honestly, simply ignorant.

I cannot deal with the sheer level of numbskull-ery in a statement like “Don’t bring politics into music” as if this is some Silly Tumblr Fad and not something that’s been a thing for over a hundred years

bard is a combat class

bard is a combat class

Over a hundred years indeed! Off the top of my head there’s a protest song from the 1600s because Cromwell cancelled Christmas. I’m betting music being political dates back to the birth of music.

…… I’ma make a “bard is a combat class” stamp and start making patches.

I would like to buy one of those patches, please.

It’s kind of insidious how pervasive anti Romani slurs are in the beauty industry. People naming their colors/shades/palettes all sorts of racial slurs (not even just “Gypsy”; I’ve seen one pallete actually named “Zingara” which is even worse!!)

Brands like Morphe and Love Lux Beauty are some of the worst offenders. Only one brand so far, which is Colourpop, has actually bothered to change one of their color names to something less offensive.

And god forbid you comment something on one of their Instagram pages lmao. Not only do you get fans jumping down your throats (or saying you should be “honored” to have a lipstick named after racial slurs you’ve endured for centuries), the brands themselves sometimes spew bullshit, as happened to me today with Love Lux Beauty.

I as a Romani person should be able to live my daily life (including mindlessly scrolling on Instagram when I’m bored) without encountering racial slurs. Furthermore, I should not be bullied into silence when I speak up for my ethnicity.

It is 2017 and still very much socially acceptable to engage in anti Romani racism. For the most part, no non-Roma step in to defend us. Especially on social media sites like Instagram. It seems we are on our own.

As gadje, it’s YOUR responsibility to end this shit. We shouldn’t have to fight you tooth and nail just to be treated with respect and dignity like any other human being.

yo I feel like including loki in thor: ragnarok as neither a hero nor a villain was marvel’s way of saying “we know you still love this psycho after all that he’s done, so let’s ease your conscience a bit with this movie” and I really appreciated that

If you support mission trips to try to teach indigenous peoples the “word of god” under the guise of helping them on their rez’s unfollow me right now.

Help should be given without expecting anything or any exterior motives other than helping people in poverty. Help dismantle the fucking trauma, not cause more. Mission trips and people trying to teach us the “word of god” is what landed us in residential schools and gave us intergenerational trauma. Fuck off if you wanna do that shit, thats just another form of colonialization.

Christians have a mandate from their God to spread the gospel.  Do you really think they are going to heed your commands over their God’s?

Just curious

Did you… even read the main text of my post???? That has caused trauma, is my main point. IDGAF about the Christian god. Just understand that there’s centuries of epigenetic trauma around Christianity for many Natives.

Don’t. Help. With. Intent. To. Convert. That doesn’t mean you can’t talk about god and Christianity. It just means not to actively attempt to convert Natives who have their own beliefs that are incredibly crucial to a sense of identity for many of us.

You are telling Christians to set aside their religion, because you don’t like it. I am suggesting to you that they are not going to listen to you. 

No. I’m telling Christians that they need to be aware of their proselytizing.

If they decide to not be aware of inter generational trauma related to their religion, then that’s theirs to take up with my ancestors when they meet them.

….Assuming your ancestors will be where they are…

They’ll likely have a word with colonizers 😉

But seriously. This is a matter of being compassionate. I grew up being taught Christianity, and one thing I took away from it was that - as with many religions - compassion is an element that seems to be emphasized. Understanding trauma is part of that & if Christians don’t get that, then it’s on them.

Ok, well, my guess is that, since they literally believe in grave danger for immortal souls, compassion for the fate of said souls is going to win out.

In that case, I’m gonna be bold & say fuck Christians 🤷🏼‍♂️

They shouldn’t proselytize in communities that don’t need their religion. Hell, proselytization should be consensual & an active choice that isn’t immediate like it is in Judaism. Bc when it’s not and when it happens in communities like Native communities (& other, non-Christian communities) thats colonialism. Plain and simple.

In addition: listen to Native voices on this matter

Including Christian natives? or just the native voices you agree with? I have to reject your bigotry.  today’s christians have zero fault in actions decades to centuries old.  Christianity is not at fault for the actions of a secular government either.  Christians should have the same freedom to exercise their faith as any other.  That includes handing our tracts with boxes of free food, or preaching the gospel as they hand it out.

Such typical christophobic crap.  

“I’m ok with you being christian as long as you never practice christianity”

I mean, that is what these people are saying. Look at the notes.

Yes, @gentlemenpaws I am going to listen to my God and blow you off. 100%.  If I bring free food and clothes to a Rez (I grew up on a Rez btw) I am going to include tracts.  

Calling me a “colonizer” for being christian just makes me laugh.  My family came from Derry Ireland, you see.  We didn’t “colonize” anything.  The colonization was already done. In fact, we got BROUGHT here by colonizers, the same ones who colonized us.

Satan’s servants have filthy mouths and hate-filled hearts. They want Christians to abandon Christ and the world to live in darkness.

YALL THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING THREAD I HAVE EVER SEEN

WHITE PEOPLE ARE A FUCKIN TRIP

This. This shit right here is what makes me hate xtians. 

Something like this I believe!

that’s one of the famous ones, a Lady Macbeth stage costume from 1888. apparently it wasn’t uncommon in victorian fashion:

we should bring embroidery like this back (but w/ imitation wings). we should all be walking around with beads & wings, clanging

Bring this back in 2019

There’s a youtuber who does historical sewing and costumery who did this recently

https://youtu.be/iA8yVDohZ-4

OH MY BEETLEJUICE 

To everyone in the comments- No, the beetles aren’t killed for their wings. These jewel beetles have short adult lives (2-3 weeks) and the wing casings are harvested after their death to ensure their conservation.

The Victorians did not invent beetlewing art. This species of beetle is indigenous to South and South East Asia where beetle wing art actually originated. Thailand, India, Myanmar, China, and Japan all practiced beetlewing art before the Victorians. Most notably, they have been used for centuries in clothing and art in the Thai royal court. Queen Sirikit has promoted beetlewing art in an effort to revive Thailand’s art and cultural history. Queen Sirikit has also forbidden the harvesting of the wing casings prior to the beetle’s death to protect them.

Unfortunately, it is hard to find old Thai art online but here are a couple of examples.

(Date and artist unknown. Thailand.)

(René Mancini, 1980.) Belongs to Queen Sirikit.

please reblog this version of this post, this is amazing

@we-cool-beans

@trisomylazarus

@vinceaddams

Heck yeah I love beetlewing embroidery! I’d like to try it someday! You can buy the wing cases by the hundred on etsy.

Hey

Psstt

The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it

thats ridiculous

they took it away because he came up with a seemingly plausible theory?

They took it away because other scientists have been unable to reproduce his results, his results were made up, he didn’t even get approved by an ethics committee, and now he’s risking the health and lives of a whole bunch of people

It’s not just that he came to incorrect conclusions, he falsified data on purpose, apparently because he had patented a related medical test and stood to make a lot of money off people using his test instead of vaccinating.

It’s crazy how this one person, in a study of only twelve children, gained so much traction in the world. He put this lie out there—and it was a lie, not just interpreting data incorrectly—and now it doesn’t even matter that he’s been proven totally false. Years of effort to reestablish the truth can’t undo the lie once it’s out there in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people believe that lie, and actual children are getting sick and dying because of it.

This is a really troubling aspect of how human minds work, and it’s something conservative politicians take advantage of on a regular basis. If you just say that “well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does“ is provide abortions, it doesn’t matter how often people recite the objective truth that abortions are a tiny fraction of Planned Parenthood services. You can say the truth 1000 times for every one time the lie is repeated, and thousands of people will still trust the lie.

I’d never heard this before, and it’s actually really helpful information to have, so thanks. Here is a scientific article by the American Academy of Pediatrics explaining the flaws in Wakefield’s research and briefly summarizing four studies that refuted the fraudulent claims. Here is an article by the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal calling him a fraud in no uncertain terms. Here is the first part of a nine-part investigative journalistic series, published in the BMJ, uncovering his fraud.  And the General Medical Council conclusions that stripped Wakefield of his clinical credentials can be found here.

I’m honestly so mad right now reading about this guy. People are dying of measles right now because vaccinations fell off so sharply, and those deaths can be laid at the door of this man.

When the apocalypse comes, pestilence will ride wearing Wakefield’s face

He absolutely has blood on his hands.

How are disabled and interracial illegal???

Interracial marriage was outlawed for the longest time, and disabled people lose government benefits when they get married so they cannot have reassurance that they will continue to LIVE if they get married.

Story time: my mom is white, dad is black. They’ve been together twenty four years, married for twenty three. When my parents were dating they did it on the low TO KEEP MY DAD SAFE.

My mom’s parents said “We don’t care who you love.” At that point she’d only ever brought home white guys. She brought my dad home-her mother called her a nigger lover and damned the relationship as much as possible. Her father grew around his prejudices after I was born but never apologized, just wasn’t a blatant fuck.

The day she introduced my father to her family was the last time she spoke to her mother for over twenty years. When I was getting sick and she called and asked her mother and grandmother if anyone in the family had anything strange happen similar what I was going through they told her “it’s because you married a black man. You made your bed, you lie in it.”

Cops pulled them over all the time and asked my mom IF SHE WAS OKAY AND IF SHE NEEDED HELP BECAUSE MY FATHER-A BLACK MAN-WAS DRIVING A 100 POUND WHITE WOMAN AROUND. HE WAS HARRASSED AND THREATED WITH ARREST.

My father ended up getting into a fight in self defence because some entitled hick decided he didn’t like seeing a black man and white woman in the bar together. Thankfully other patrons helped my father but he still couldn’t go to the er for his injuries. My mom patched him up and they were terrified the cops would take him away.

THEIR BEST FRIEND GOT LICENSED TO MARRY THEM SO THEY COULD ACTUALLY TIE THE KNOT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD AND CITED JIM CROW ERA LAW AS TO WHY.

When shopping with just me my father wouldn’t hold my hand if there was a group around. Why? I’m far lighter than him and people had stopped and asked him “whose child is that?” Or “little girl where’s your parents?” and were stunned when I grinned and pointed at my dad and proudly proclaimed “my daddy’s right here.” You know where else mixed kids couldn’t hold their parents hands? Apartheid South Africa. We live in fucking FLORIDA.

So yeah. Some history for you.

This post was made in October 2018. The above poster’s parents met in 1994. We were a generation removed from the Civil Rights movement and this was happening.

Yes Jesus and his Star of David.

It’s even funnier when you realize he was talking to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

My mom shares what her dad (my grandfather) told her about concentration camps he witnessed

I decided to record my mom’s memories of what her father (my grandfather) told her about his experiences in WW2, with an emphasis on what he saw in concentration camps.

I felt obligated to record this because: 1) this is part of my family history, and I don’t want it to be lost, 2) many of the things Black soldiers did during wartime have been erased from historical record, and 3) my connection to the Jewish people started long before I was born.

I totally get that the Holocaust is triggering for some people and that it’s exhausting and depressing to talk about, but if you can stomach it, please give it a listen and feel free to share.

Yes, it’s OK to reblog.

This has gotten popular again, but considering the day, I’m sharing it again.