This is a satire, but the Black Holocaust Museum exists, as does James Cameron. Biographical details of Cameron’s life are factual.
http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/

Attorney Hyrum Greenbaum of the Simon Wiesenthal Center has filed a lawsuit in the Wisconsin Supreme Court against James Cameron, founder of the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. The lawsuit includes several complaints that revolve around trademark infringement.

Greenbaum explains. “About four years ago, Black people started to use the term ‘Holocaust’ to describe their past. We allowed this for a time, but when ‘Black Holocaust’ started to appear in school textbooks, it became a vicious assault on America’s children. Cynical parties know that when a lie is implanted into the mind of a young person, it makes that person refuse to hear facts for the rest of his life, since the truth threatens a person’s entire worldview.”

James Cameron is the Black museum’s founder. He personally witnessed lynchings in his youth, narrowly escaping one of them, and spent four years in prison after being falsely accused of rape. Indiana Governor Evan Bayh pardoned him in 1982. In 1984, after hearing of plans to build a Jewish Holocaust ® Museum in Washington, D.C., Cameron decided that a Black Holocaust Museum was needed. “It seems that every group of people have a chance to erect museums and memorials and statues in our country so that the world can never forget,” Cameron says. “I don’t see why Black people should be excluded from that.”

In 1988, Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum, Inc., a non-profit center devoted to preserving the history of Black people’s struggle for equality.

Now the museum is struggling for its life in court.

“Regardless of his motives, Cameron is breaking the law,” Greenbaum says. “If America is to be a nation of justice, these issues must be addressed.”

The Holocaust ® is the only event in history that has been legally copyrighted. The copyright itself is the only one that has permanent status, since ‘Holocaust’® is also a registered trademark.

Greenbaum also objects to the museum’s use of the term ‘slavery,” although his complaint does not mention this.

“Just because the slavery myth is repeated in all the history books doesn’t make it true,” Greenbaum said. “This tale has been used to extort billions of dollars in reparations from various countries throughout the world. Every year brings more and more claimants, almost none of which were alive when this alleged event supposedly occurred. Why must the world continue to pay for something that even Blacks admit happened a long time ago? Where is the proof? Show me one single document in which anyone ever said, ‘Let’s enslave Black people.’ Why won’t they do that?”

James Cameron responds. “No country has ever paid reparations to any Black person. In any case, the museum focuses more on the struggle for equal rights than on slavery. Regarding documentation, there are countless documents connected with the slavery era, such as Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, but when we tried using the Freedom-Of-Information Act to get copies, the Federal Government denied all our requests, citing the State Secrets Act.”

“That’s a perfect example,” Greenbaum says. “These people take National Security concerns and twist them into absurd fairy tales, seeking to profit at the expense of America’s safety. Their 'holocaust'® claims have nothing to do with peace and understanding. They merely seek power and money.”

James Cameron says the museum is intended to promote contemplation of what it means to be a human being, regardless of skin color. “Besides, Jewish people have a museum in most major American cities, many of which are taxpayer-supported. What’s wrong with a single museum for the Black struggle, located here in Milwaukee, and supported entirely by donations?”

Greenbaum scoffs at the latter question. “I suppose if a movie is shown in numerous theatres, Mr. Cameron would see nothing wrong with making illegal copies of that movie. The Holocaust® is a registered trademark. What part of ‘copyright’ do these people not understand?”

The Milwaukee Police Department has recorded 1,237 cases of vandalism directed at the museum during the last month alone. Some are firebombings, but two cases involved coordinated missile attacks from F-16 fighters that had Israeli markings, according to witnesses who live nearby. Most acts, however, are racist epithets spray-painted on the building’s exterior. Usually these involve images of monkeys with the word ‘shwartzer.’

“This so-called vandalism is highly suspect,” Greenbaum says. “Whenever these people want something, they spray-paint ‘KKK’ on the wall of a church or a school, knowing the police will conduct a thorough investigation, and that citizens will give more tax dollars to these organizations. My God, where does it end?”

Over the years, Jewish groups have brought numerous lawsuits against Black organizations, most recently in Rothstein v. Johnson, which involved a dispute over the term ‘slavery.’ Several cases have worked their way up through the U.S. legal system, but the U.S. Supreme Court has so far declined to hear any of them.

"Rothstein v. Johnson showed how these people twist semantics for their own ends,” Greenbaum explains. “For example, they claim to have been slaves, yet they freely admit that none of them were gassed in concentration camps.”

Rothstein v. Johnson was eventually settled out of court, with the NAACP paying an undisclosed amount to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Under the terms of the agreement, Blacks may continue to use the term ‘slavery,’ provided they first consult with local Jewish organizations.

“It was a miracle the case was even heard,” Geenbaum says. “Black people are disproportionately represented among judges and attorneys, and they form a secret society hidden by a public taboo. The slightest questioning of Black Supremacism gets you instantly branded a racist. At every turn you are accused of anti-Africism. Heaven help you if you are a Muslim before a Black judge in Brooklyn.”

Greenbaum’s lawsuit will be heard by the Hon. Rachel Goldstein of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Goldstein promises a fair hearing. If Greenbaum prevails, the museum will be shut down.

“That would be a crime against history,” Cameron says. “A recent exhibit featured artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank off the Florida coast in 1700. The exhibit included shackles used on the people, right down to the small hand irons used on children. The ship’s manifest shows that each slave was given two square feet, and ate, slept, prayed, and relieved themselves in their own tiny spots. Slaves were also chained together, so if one escaped, several would have to escape together, risking death. Ultimately, though, this is not about Black people alone. Captains of slave ships sometimes had a few of their own crewmembers put to death shortly before arriving in port, so the sailors would not have to be paid. The museum also honors the many people who participated in abolition. John Newton, for example, was former slave ship captain who converted to Christianity, and dedicated the rest of his life to abolishing slavery. The courage and sacrifices of all these people will be lost if Greenbaum succeeds.”

“That’s very touching,” Greenbaum says, “but fairy tales don’t automatically become true when they have a sugar coating. I’m confident that the myth of so-called Black slavery will eventually be exposed. Truth needs no laws to defend it. A fact needs no lies to prove it. Once these people allow an unbiased investigation into their claims of slavery, their entire scam will be seen for what it is: the cruelest hoax in modern history.”

Would Greenbaum and the Wiesenthal Center be willing to talk with Cameron, and perhaps have the name of the museum changed?

"I'm afraid this outrage has gone way past that," Greenbaum explains. "We intend to make an example of Mr. Cameron for the sake of America's children."

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