Brittany Packnett Cunningham

If we don't make the proper comparison now, if we don't properly historicize what's happening, then we will be here again.

That's not the world I'm interested in building for my children or y'all's.

The Nazis had a blueprint and that blueprint was the Jim Crow South.

The other reason why it's improper to compare it, though, is because Germany thereafter did its work.

They did not put up statues of Nazi Germany war heroes.

They did not lionize Hitler.

They did not pick up a symbol like the swastika of oppression and make it cool and hip again like they did the Confederate flag here in the 60s and 70s, right?

Their bands weren't playing in front of the swastika like Leonard Skinner was playing in front of the Confederate flag.

They did their work.

They made sure that the history was taught to every single child who came through their educational systems.

If you spent any time being educated in that country, you knew.

So that never again was not a wish, but a plan.

And in this country, we've erased the history.

We've ignored the history.

We've told the people that knew the history that they were overdoing it, that they were doing too much.

We have perverted the history.

We've taught the history intentionally incorrectly.

We've been told that the history makes people feel bad, so we can't say it anymore.

We can't teach it anymore.

We got to get the books out of there.