re: #226 Barefoot Grin

Adam Serwer’s Atlantic article today is really eye-opening. I knew that the US immigration and race politics was in some ways an inspiration for Nazis and later South Africa, but I didn’t realize the extent. ‘America the incubator’ is still valid.

theatlantic.com

I don’t think I’ll ever forget that bit in the article about a Nazi lawyer studying Jim Crow for inspiration saying the American ‘one-drop’ rule on racial definitions was too harsh to be used by the Third Reich.