By
Gregory V. Boulware
Hans
Massaquoi ‘The Black In Nazi Germany'
“His skin color made him a target
for racist abuse.”
~The
true nature of Nazism~
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There
have been myths in circulation concerning a so-called identity crisis of ‘Bi-Racial’
individuals. The statement claims “the
children won’t know who or what they are!” Several young individuals have
expressed their heavy laden burden of being bi-racial by identifying themselves
as “mixed.” This reporter has attempted to remove that piece of their problem
in the ‘gone-does not exist’ receptacle. I use the metaphor of ‘baking a cake
or a pie’ as one example of the non-sequitor. Messages received in response
have been pleasingly jovial and understood. Several ‘Bi-Racial’ social
connections as well as those of whom I know personally, have eagerly engaged in
the topic, have accepted and continue to make changes in the description of
people like them…with pride.
Many
people who are ‘Bi-Racial’ have been perceived as ‘Black’ unless it benefits or pleases the eye of the beholder. Not
to mention those who have been described as passing – (for white). Many children who are Bi-Racial have been raised in the Black community. However, that
particular count is misleading. The billions of Bi-Racial Children all over the
world have not been included with the groups of Bi-Racial Children in the
states. When you consider Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Ireland, England,
Spain, China, Japan, Turkey, Israel, and all of the other countries, nations,
and states throughout the world that Black People have at one time or another,
set foot by visitation and/or planted roots; babies were born and bred without
a thought, to the contrary or otherwise – it was a normal thing to do.
The
article ‘Outnumbered’ has put the
challenge of that argument, hopefully, to rest. However cases of said anxieties
are not to be considered non-existent. So, to those of you who question yourselves
and your identity…bear with me for a moment and continue to absorb the
following text.
Nine
U.S. counties in five states saw their minority populations across all age
groups surpass 50 percent last year.
So-called
Minorities made up roughly 2.02 million, or 50.4 percent of U.S. births in the
12-month period ending July 2011. That compares with 37 percent in 1990.
In
all, 348 of the nation’s 3,143 counties, or 1 in 9, have minority populations
across all age groups that total more than 50 percent. In a sign of future U.S.
race and ethnic change, the number of counties reaching the tipping point
increases to more than 690, or nearly 1 in 4, when looking only at the under
age 5 population.
The
number of white births fell by 11.4 percent, compared with 3.2 percent for
minorities, according to Kenneth Johnson,
a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire.
The Pew Foundation found other findings within the
research report:
The
migration of Black Americans back to the South is slowing. New destinations in
the South, including Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh, N.C., and Orlando,
Fla., saw sharp drop-offs in black population growth as the prolonged housing
bust kept African-Americans locked in place in traditional big cities.
“OUTNUMBERED?”
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Do
you still entertain some level of doubt in yourself? Do you still feel
unimpressed and unconvinced? Are you feeling downtrodden or perplexed –
defeated? Take a glimpse into the life and times of Brother Hans
Massaquoi.
The Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935; Massaquoi
was classified as a non-Aryan. With a view to becoming an expert machinist was
encouraged by his mother to embark on an apprenticeship.
He
was unable to pursue a professional career and instead A few months before
finishing school, Massaquoi was required to go to a government-run job center
where his assigned vocational counselor was Herr von Vett, a member of the SS. Upon seeing the "telltale
black SS insignia of dual lightning bolts in the lapel of his civilian
suit," Massaquoi expected humiliation. Instead, he was surprised when he
was greeted with "a friendly wink", offered a seat and asked to
present something which he had made. After showing von Vett an axe and
discussing his experience in working for a local blacksmith shop, Massaquoi was
surprised to be informed that he could "be of great service to Germany one
day" because there would be a great demand for technically trained
Germans, who would go to Africa to
train and develop an African workforce when Germany
reclaimed its African colonies.
Before Massaquoi left the interview, von Vett invited him to shake his hand
which was another source of confusion to Massaquoi.
The
daily life of the young Massaquoi was remarkable. He was one of the few mixed
race children in Nazi Germany, and like most of the other children his age, he
thought about joining the Hitler Youth. There was a school contest to see if a
class could get a 100% membership of the Deutsches
Jungvolk (a subdivision of Hitler Youth) and Massaquoi's teacher devised a
chart on the blackboard which showed who had joined and who had not. As this
was filled in after each person joined, Massaquoi felt left out, and he
recalled saying, "But I am German...my Mother says I'm German just like anybody
else". He then persuaded his mother to let him join the Jungvolk.
He went to register at the nearest office but he faced hostility.
Massaquoi
lived a simple, but happy childhood with his mother, Bertha Nikodijevic. His
father, Al-Haj Massaquoi, was a law student in Dublin who only occasionally lived with the family at the consul
general home in Hamburg. Eventually, the consul general was recalled to
Liberia, and Hans Massaquoi and his mother remained in Germany.
Massaquoi
describes his childhood and youth in Hamburg during the Nazi rise to power. His
biography provides a unique point of view: he was one of very few German-born Bi-Racial
children in all of Nazi Germany, shunned, but not persecuted by the Nazis. This
dichotomy remained a key theme throughout his whole life.
Hans-Jürgen
Massaquoi
(January 19, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was a German American journalist and
author. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, to a white German mother and Liberian
Vai father, the grandson of Momulu Massaquoi, the consul general
of Liberia in Germany at the time.
Increasingly,
however, he realized the true nature of
Nazism. His skin color made him a target for racist abuse. However, in
contrast to German Jews or Romani, Massaquoi—an Afro-German—was not persecuted.
He was "just" a second-class citizen, which was actually a blessing
in disguise. During World War II, his "impurity" spared him from
being drafted into the German army. As unemployment, hunger and poverty grew
rampant, he even tried to enlist, but he was abusively rejected by the
officers. In this time, he befriended the family of Ralph Giordano, a half-Jewish acquaintance of their swing kid age,
who survived the war by hiding and ended up being a journalist as well.
Massaquoi
dated a white girl but they had to keep their relationship a secret, especially
as her father was a member of the police and the SS. Such
relationships were also forbidden and classified as ‘Rassenschande’ (race
defilement) by the race laws. To keep the relationship secret, they met
only in the evenings, when they would go for walks. As he dropped his
girlfriend off at her house one night, he was stopped by a member of the SD,
the intelligence branch of the SS. He was taken to the police station as he was
believed to be "on the prowl for defenseless women or looking for an opportunity
to steal".
Fortunately
for Massaquoi, he was recognized by a police officer as living in the area and
working:
"This young man is an
apprentice at Lindner A.G., where he
works much too hard to have enough energy left to prowl the streets at night
looking for trouble. I happen to know that because the son of one of my colleagues
apprentices with him".
The
SD officer closed the case and gave the Nazi salute, and Massaquoi was allowed
to leave the station.
Immigration:
In 1947 Massaquoi was able to visit Liberia, and was fascinated and shocked by its raw, rural nature. He grew estranged from his father Al-Haj. He left his mother and whom he considered arrogant and tyrannical.
Massaquoi
immigrated to the United States in 1947. He served two years in the army as a
paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne
Division and became a naturalized
U.S. citizen in 1950. With his GI bill he studied journalism at the
University of Illinois followed by a career at Jet magazine and then Ebony
magazine, where he became managing editor. His position allowed him to
interview many historical figures of the arts, politics and civil rights
movement.
Over
the years he visited Germany many times. He’s stated that “Germany is still my homeland.”
Personal
life:
Massaquoi's
beloved widow is Katharine Rousseve Massaquoi. He had two sons by a previous
marriage, Steve and Hans Jr., who also survived him.
The bloodlines (remember Adam and Eve?) of many different groups of people (if not all) have been blended since
throughout time all across the globe. Biracial children, the mixing of the
so-called races has existed all over the world since the beginning of time. How
does one account for the many different hues and colors of the many different
people from everywhere? Is it possible that someone continues to believe that
his/her bloodline is truly made up of one individual racial group? Purity, if
you will?
Mixed?
Well it has been argued that the term is a possible slang for “mixed-bloods.”
But when one describes herself or himself as “mixed,’ you have to wonder or
question their state of identity.
Surely,
those who continue to believe they are superior and outnumber their description
of so-called minorities; one must know by now…that you are truly and indeed
outnumbered.
Til
Next Time…
Refer and Acknowledge :
‘Many
Rivers To Cross’The African Americans
~Henry Louis Gates, Jr.~
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”Be Fruitful and
Multiply!”
~Noah~
Is there trouble in the land of today? Will the mass killing
bring peace to the land before it is too late? Will the ‘Waters’ come once again
to cleanse the wickedness from the inhabitants who simply cannot get along…living
in peace, tranquility, and harmony?
“Because I know man to be weak and forgetful, once more I will
tell you, as I told Adam; the Earth is yours to rule in goodness and justice.
It will feed you and comfort you but you must take care of the Earth, and of
one another, as well. Above all, I hate murder and bloodshed, for it is the
same thing as denying God, in which the image of man was made.”
“Is it the changing of the Guards, or The Changing of God - From generation to generation, from Africa
to America, Africa boasts one of the World's oldest civilization. It was called
Nubia, during the time of ancient Egypt, and the
People of Nubia or Kush were Black, 2000 years B.C. Black Americans
inhibited Liberia since 1848. It is a Circle from there back to America. In 100
years, there will be no races, but a Multi-racial co-existence. To find a True
Black would be impossible. You cannot find a 100% Black even in Africa today.”
”The future depends on that individual
at that present time. And if my children's, children's, children's,
children (and theirs) continue the path that they travel, then in
one hundred years we will have a beautiful, green, safe and secure society on
planet earth or where ever man decides to move in this universe”...
In
the beginning there was nothing…
Temptation
led to sin…
Cast
out of Eden, Adam and Eve had three sons:
Cain,
Abel, and Seth.
Cain
killed Abel and fled to the East, where he was sheltered by a band of fallen
angels; the Watchers.
These
Watchers helped Cain’s descendants build a great industrial civilization. Cain’s
cities spread wickedness, devouring the world. Only the descendants of Seth
defend and protect what is left of creation.
And
so, it is said unto you, good children of God… ”Be Fruitful and Multiply!”
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