This week I choose the meme of John Green finishing his open letter and a link to one of his videos on 1950 American History on Civil rights. My open letter is to those in After World War II because so many government officials that had the power to make not only their country but the world a better place to live, especially minorities and then did not do anything to help minorities. So….
Dear Those In Power After World War II, You had the power to make the world a better place and prevent discrimination but instead all of you made it harder for minorities. To clarify, I’m talking to those such as The United States Government such as President Roosevelt, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the United Nations and the United Nations Organization. The big 3: the US, Britian and France did not want to make” human rights their centerpiece” (Mark Mazower).You rather keep your power, and stop fighting instead of making the wold a safer place. The support nationalism especially in Germany lead to Hitlers triumph and the mass killing of the Jews. Looking to the time before the WWII the Third Reich stated “nation comes before humanity” meaning that the Germany was more important than the way the government enforced laws that segregated and killed Jews. (See the Strange Triumph of Human Rights 1933-1950 by Mark Mazower.)
Roosevelt, as an American I am disappointed in you. Secretly, you were in favor of human rights. In your State of the Union address in 1941 you never brought up human rights even in America, the country you are in charge of! You wanted to make sure that a the world particular German would not return to it’s post WWI, treaty of Versailles time. Thankfully, your wife stepped to the plate and talked about human rights. With the Family of Man a museum filled with pictures from all over the world to try to paint a a different perspective was often used to boost moral such as Power in the Pacific.
How could you stand by and not stop Hitler? Why did it take you so long to notice and find out that there was an entire race being wiped out. Fred Turner quoted Horkheimer stating Hitler Succeeded in promoting the notion of the nation as a family and enforcing racial and sexual distinction in large part through the help of mass media. You had an organization that all of you were apart of or had the chance at membership at which in laments terms is the UN was the way to stop this horrible infraction in society. The UN’s Luke-warm stance of human rights laws led the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1916. When the UN finally had the chance to make a difference there was a clause in the new chapter that domestic jurisdiction clause had no implications on how to enforce their new laws. You lost because the big 3 did not listen to you because they did not give you judicial power. In 1947, W.E.B. DuBois talked on the behalf of the NAACP about the racism against blacks in the US. Thankfully, one thing that you did to help a race, the Jews in this case, was the Security Council that partook in the Nuremberg trials. The Nazis were put on trial for their inhuman actions. That was one of the few steps you took to correct a wrong in the world.
What’s also heart breaking is the fact that there was more talk about human and minority rights were bigger in the US than the Britain and France. Les Droits de l’homme et la loi naturelle (translated human rights and natural law) by Jacques Maritian in 1942 was one of the papers to come out of France about the push the importance of human rights. One thing that you did was form the European Convention for the Protection of Human rights to protect human rights. You finally took a step to make the world a better place.
To put this simply, those with power, you did an awful job after WWII to protect human rights. You did enough to say you did something but the laws that restricted peoples did not change and for many years afterwards. You gave and took power from groups so that you would not have to participate in a world wide problem. Since then, the governments have done better jobs to enforce human rights but there is much more to do. I hope that one day, governments will step in an help all the oppress people.
Sincerely,
Elysia Budu This week I choose the meme of John Green finishing his open letter and a link to one of his videos on 1950 American History on Civil rights. My open letter is to those in After World War II because so many government officials that had the power to make not only their country but the world a better place to live, especially minorities and then did not do anything to help minorities. So….
Dear Those In Power After World War II, You had the power to make the world a better place and prevent discrimination but instead all of you made it harder for minorities. To clarify, I’m talking to those such as The United States Government such as President Roosevelt, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the United Nations and the United Nations Organization. The big 3: the US, Britian and France did not want to make” human rights their centerpiece” (Mark Mazower).You rather keep your power, and stop fighting instead of making the wold a safer place. The support nationalism especially in Germany lead to Hitlers triumph and the mass killing of the Jews. Looking to the time before the WWII the Third Reich stated “nation comes before humanity” meaning that the Germany was more important than the way the government enforced laws that segregated and killed Jews. (See the Strange Triumph of Human Rights 1933-1950 by Mark Mazower.)
Roosevelt, as an American I am disappointed in you. Secretly, you were in favor of human rights. In your State of the Union address in 1941 you never brought up human rights even in America, the country you are in charge of! You wanted to make sure that a the world particular German would not return to it’s post WWI, treaty of Versailles time. Thankfully, your wife stepped to the plate and talked about human rights. With the Family of Man a museum filled with pictures from all over the world to try to paint a a different perspective was often used to boost moral such as Power in the Pacific.
How could you stand by and not stop Hitler? Why did it take you so long to notice and find out that there was an entire race being wiped out. Fred Turner quoted Horkheimer stating Hitler Succeeded in promoting the notion of the nation as a family and enforcing racial and sexual distinction in large part through the help of mass media. You had an organization that all of you were apart of or had the chance at membership at which in laments terms is the UN was the way to stop this horrible infraction in society. The UN’s Luke-warm stance of human rights laws led the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1916. When the UN finally had the chance to make a difference there was a clause in the new chapter that domestic jurisdiction clause had no implications on how to enforce their new laws. You lost because the big 3 did not listen to you because they did not give you judicial power. In 1947, W.E.B. DuBois talked on the behalf of the NAACP about the racism against blacks in the US. Thankfully, one thing that you did to help a race, the Jews in this case, was the Security Council that partook in the Nuremberg trials. The Nazis were put on trial for their inhuman actions. That was one of the few steps you took to correct a wrong in the world.
What’s also heart breaking is the fact that there was more talk about human and minority rights were bigger in the US than the Britain and France. Les Droits de l’homme et la loi naturelle (translated human rights and natural law) by Jacques Maritian in 1942 was one of the papers to come out of France about the push the importance of human rights. One thing that you did was form the European Convention for the Protection of Human rights to protect human rights. You finally took a step to make the world a better place.
To put this simply, those with power, you did an awful job after WWII to protect human rights. You did enough to say you did something but the laws that restricted peoples did not change and for many years afterwards. You gave and took power from groups so that you would not have to participate in a world wide problem. Since then, the governments have done better jobs to enforce human rights but there is much more to do. I hope that one day, governments will step in an help all the oppress people.
Sincerely,
Elysia Budu 
It is an interesting point to make that most countries try to avoid mentioning the issue of human rights in order to maintain the power that they hold. It is important to understand that human rights takes a lot out of a government because they have to sacrifice power, money, and resources in order to support the cause. It comes down to whether the actual people in power care or not.
I liked the unique approach you took with this blogpost, and I think it emphasizes the hypocrisy after WW2. The amount of effort that they put in to stop Hitler’s human rights violations during the Holocaust should have led to the continuing fight for human rights even after the war. However, faced with their own problems at home, these countries chose to ignore their issues.
I found the format that you used for this post to be a very interesting way to get your point across on the subject. You only focus on the negative though, there were some positive things that came out of the human rights act from this time period. Yes, the US did use it to their advantage and didn’t follow it themselves but it helped other states when they had problems.