betterbemeta:anexperimentallife:d0cpr0fess0r:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:strixobscuro:softjunebreeze:
betterbemeta:anexperimentallife:d0cpr0fess0r:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:strixobscuro:softjunebreeze:knowledgeequalsblackpower:paulwalkersdogwalker:buttcheekpalmkang:hersheyhipster:Do Your Fucking Research *Nicki Minaj Voice*Wow… Lmao.Some people threw white paint on it a few years back.They want to be a victim so bad.Fun Fact: That’s a statue of the fist which Joe Louis used to knock out Max Schmeling, Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer in 1938. Schmeling won the 1st bout by knockout in round twelve, but Joe Louis came back in the follow-up match and laid him the fuck out in the 1st round.Fun Fact: Schmeling was hated by the Nazis for losing to a black man and for having a Jewish manager, and he hated them right back, stating in 1975 that he was glad he’d lost the fight because the thought of the Nazis using him for propaganda purposes sickened him. He also personally saved the lives of two Jewish children and later became lifelong friends with Joe Louis.So maybe don’t refer to him as “Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer”…Thank you for this additional info!Reblogging this for the added facts and so people know that Schmeling wasn’t a Nazi or Nazi collaborator and was in fact a good man Imagine hating Nazis so much that when you get beaten up your response is “Good, now they can’t use me as a role model.”And even if it WERE a Black Panther memorial, the Panthers are about RESISTANCE to hatred and oppression.This is almost a textbook-perfect example of how one of the essential elements of Nazi propaganda is appropriation- not just cultural, but individual and interpersonal. They have a long history of not only willing atrocity but using the images, careers, and symbols of others against their will as icons. Fascists don’t just hate the accomplishments of their critics, they claim, profiteer off, and retroactively ruin the accomplishments of people who aren’t even their friends but superficially are useful to them. -- source link