How do we consider Nazis in Alabama? Where does their presence lie in the story of the state? Is it simply an alarming fact that they moved from one hateful, murderous order to another? Or is the better lens one of relationship? The cold political calculus of how to achieve global power included a sign that the proclaimed democratic values of the nation weren’t as deep as declared (something that Black people in Alabama already knew quite well). Or—and this might be the most frightful and the most honest option—maybe it simply indicated that anything, absolutely anything, could be justified
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