We cannot ignore the threads that connect acts of hate

Holocaust survivors, their families, their friends, and their allies all gathered in the state Capitol building here Wednesday. And they vowed to never forget.

But how can they?

How can they when the same sparks that lit the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and other extermination camps keep burning in our own time?

How can they when Charleston, Pittsburgh, Christchurch, Opelousas...