I kind of wonder what people would think if more of them knew that a Nazi rally had been held in New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1939. If more New Yorkers realized that during the time in which WWII was getting close to starting up that a Nazi party was holding court in one of their most beloved structures, I would hope against hope that more people would have stood up and rammed their less than gentle foot into the nether regions of those that thought this was okay. I don’t think I need to make it any clearer just what I’d like to see done to those that would attempt to bring these ideals into our country.
The war was just about to start and these people, yes I did say ‘these people’, were proudly parading their detestable ideals in a country where diversity might not have been as celebrated as it should have been, but was still much more apparent than under Hitler’s regime. The saddest part is that these times have come again in our nation and people are proudly flying the Nazi flag, a symbol that the US has rallied against for many a year now and which some Americans tend to think is worth standing up for and fighting for. Those folks that seem to think the Nazi symbol is a good idea to fly freely don’t seem to recall that Americans fought and died in a war to oppose that symbol and its twisted ideals.
This is America however, and as a right people have been able to fly whatever flag they want so long as they do it in their own space and on their own time. You won’t gain a lot of friends walking down the street with a swastika emblazoned on your outfit, your skin, or on a flag that you hold in your possession, but chances are you won’t be arrested for it. That’s the freedom of speech and expression, it allows the hate-mongering citizens among us to spread the word of division and racist propaganda that seeks to keep people apart and in fear of one another. It’s a miserable way to live when you decide to hate others for nothing more than the who they are and what race they come from.
Do I agree with their sentiment? Not in the least. I do believe if someone flew a Nazi flag within my reach it would be torn down and left to flutter on the ground where it belongs. This country was founded heavily on diversity no matter how divided we are now, and has been built with the sweat and back-breaking labor of many different people throughout the ages. There is no one race that can say that they alone built America, nor is there any one race that should inherit everything. While it might be in trouble at this time, America is still a country worth fighting for, and an ideal that should continue to be embraced.
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