I know a woman who is a survivor of the holocaust. She often makes me rugalagh and sends it to my cousins grandma to give to me, or rather, her daughter makes it because she is very old, and she always asks for a few for me.
Four years ago she asked me to paint her story in succession. Of course, before I painted ANYTHING, I wanted the story first.
This woman saw some of the most horrific things. They were terrible, to the point where I had to decline in putting them on canvas.
In one of her stories, she told me how the women in camps, who were raped, then conceived, gave birth to a sport. By that I mean they took these babies, mother left out to bleed, and flung them from the garrison window, while men below took aim and fired repeatedly for target practice. They would laugh, and hold up half blown up, twitching newborns in their hands like prize game.
These men did this, because they were less than people to them. As Jewish women, they were about as good as the dirt under their feet.
She’s not big on media, and doesn’t watch much of it, but having talked to her not too long ago, she told me that the way the majority of trump supporters talked about Hispanic people… about African Americans… about Muslims- they consider these people as nothing more than pigs for slaughter. Dirt.
She’s terrified, as am I, for the american people.
She, out of everyone I know, understands what it’s like to not be considered human by your country.
I was told, that she had no doubts, that these white, disgusting men, who preech about preserving life and taking away women’s rights, are the sort of men who use babes as targets; as long as they aren’t one of them.
Trump supporters are scary, and Trump himself is going to kill so many that “don’t matter”.
Who ever fucking voted Trump, or third party “because i have morals, and they’re both eeeeevil”, can fucking get out of here.
That woman said she has seen evil (she’s told me in morbid detail of that evil), and she could only say “I am watching it happen all over again.”
I’m not even american. I’m Canadian… but that doesn’t mean I didnt fucking cry for four hours. Thinking of all the people who are going to die, the possibility of a civil war, or ww3 backed by nukes and bombs… I am mourning for lives I hope are not lost. I wish for the best… but something better be done if shit hits the fucking fan.
(via bjeurk)
