At the Museum of Tolerance, the first thing I saw was a mini-video that had clips of an interview with William Pierce who wrote ?The Turner Diaries,? which was found in Timothy McVeigh?s possession when he was arrested. The video also had clips of groups of African-American men making stereotypical remarks toward the white-Americans. They spoke of how for every black man who didn?t have a gun, there was a white man with at least one gun. This is obviously a stereotype because not every white man owned a gun. The leader of the group, whose name I did not catch, had even said that he ?wished they would show movies with white men being killed to the point where the blood flowed into the popcorn.? This particular clip had a huge effect on me. I

The most extreme form of violence against minorities between the years of 1880-1980 was lynching, which is putting a person to death, usually by hanging. Lynching by itself was the cause of 4,000 deaths nationwide, which averages to 80 deaths per year. One-third of lynching occurred in the South, and of those deaths 90% of them were deaths among African-American. In 1980, the Los Angeles County Commission of Human Relations found that all the hate crimes committed were based on race, ethnic origin, religion and sexual orientation. The LACCHR also reported that the largest number of crimes reported were against African-Americans, Jews, gays, Asians, and Latinos.

In one graphic video clip, it showed people in hospitals being pushed onto trucks that were going to take them away to the resettlement camps. After those trucks left, there was still one that stayed behind. Then I saw something fall out a window. I figured it was furniture, but then they showed a photograph of what was actually thrown out of the four-story window and it was a baby! Infants were being thrown out of the window one-by-one. Just knowing that these babies belonged to a woman who was just dragged away against her will was horrifying. These babies were someone?s daughters, sons, nephews, and grandchildren. The women that were taken away were forced to strip, leave their valuables and get haircuts. The women were told the men would be building houses and streets and that the women would be too busy doing housework. Then they were forced into a gas chamber and in 32 minutes all the people in that room were dead. Some were shot to death. In one video clip, it told of a woman who had carried her child with her to the camp and was determined to not be separated from her baby. Then shots rang out and the people around her started falling to the floor. Before she knew it, she had blood all over her face. Her baby had been shot right in the head.

I would hate to think that genocide like the Holocaust could occur again, but it could. The only reason why the chances of it happening again are less is because we now know what could happen if it did. The Germans didn?t. The only way it can happen again is if we let it happen. Everything is a result of individual choice and if we choose not to let what we don?t know scare us, and just accept things and try to learn from them. And if there is one thing I?ve learned that I will take with me forever is this: Repeat a lie often enough, and people will start to believe it.

The elimination of Jews was basically an organized mass-slaughter. They were rounded up, shot-down and slaughtered. Between July and November, approximately 137,346 civilians were murdered. Medical experiments were conducted on the Jews in the camps. Young couples committed suicide rather than be separated. During this time Hitler ordered great works of literature to be destroyed. People who voiced their opinion against Hitler were never heard from again.

?ve heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. But I never realized that the African-Americans of today still feel now, the way the African-America

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