2009-08-19 We need a history lesson about Nazis

2009-08-19 Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald \Nazism\lessons from history\Barack Obama/Nazi http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/1192566.html We need a history lesson about Nazis We need a history lesson about Nazis  ...yes, you are even protected if you liken Obama or Bush to Hitler. Yet every time I hear that, it makes me cringe for what it says about our collective propensity for historical amnesia and our retarded capacity for reverence. Once upon a lifetime ago, six million people with DNA, names and faces just like you and I, were butchered with gleeful sadism and mechanistic dispatch. Six million people.

You and I may no longer respect one another, but is it asking too much that we still respect them?

&ldquo;...yes, you are even protected if you liken Obama or Bush to Hitler. Yet every time I hear that, it makes me cringe for what it says about our collective propensity for historical amnesia and our retarded capacity for reverence.&rdquo;   