Music and Political Movements

Well...here goes my first blogging experience.

I would like to express some thing that came to mind when I read the article: "Music and Political Movements" by Turino. If you turn to page 191, paragraph 3, it says something extremely important: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it."

As I continued to read through and learn about the strategies employed by the Nazis, I couldn't help but notice some parallels between steps that were taken in Germany by a minority group and steps being taken here by a minority group...

Ultimately, in Germany, they did things like: "demonizing Jewish people to create an image of German superiority and to justify theft and extermination, the Nazi had to deny Jewish humanness and any contributions Jews might make to society. To admit that non-Aryans could produce good art or anything else of worth would be to admit that they might be valuable human beings after all, and this the Nazis could not do."

--> They banned books. They did a lot of brainwashing. They preyed on the state of the economy, on the low morale of many people...etc.

My point with all of this is that there are things being put in effect here that strive to strip a whole group of people of their history...and there just seem to be many similarities. Or may be I could just be looking into this too much?

Check out this link. There seems to be a movement which seeks to eliminate the fact that slavery ACTUALLY occurred in this country from all history textbooks. Is that not brainwashing? Why are they trying to rewrite history? (Someone help? Lol):



http://www.bvblackspin.com/2011/01/14/tea-party-wants-slavery-removed-from-student-textbooks/