Why not a white history month (drugs, racism, March, KKK)

[Michigantown]

These are the things we should teach.

1. Cherokee Trail of Tears
2. Japanese American internment
3. Philippine-American War
4. Jim Crow
5. The genocide of Native Americans
6. Transatlantic slave trade
7. The Middle Passage
8. The history of White American racism
9. Black Codes
10. Slave patrols
11. Ku Klux Klan
12. The War on Drugs
13. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
14. How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide
15. How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide
16. White anti-racism
17. The Southern strategy
18. The rape of black slave women
19. CORE
20. Madison Grant
21. The Indian Wars
22. Human zoos
23. How the Jews became white
24. White flight
25. Redlining
26. Proposition 14
27. Homestead Act
28. Tulsa Riots
29. Rosewood massacre
30. Tuskegee Experiment
31. Lynching
32. Hollywood stereotypes
33. Indian Appropriations Acts
34. Immigration Act of 1924
35. Sundown towns
36. Chinese Exclusion Act
37. Emmett Till
38. Vincent Chin
39. Islamophobia
40. Indian boarding schools
41. King Philip’s War
42. Bacon’s Rebellion
43. American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery
44. History of the gun
45. History of the police
46. History of prisons
47. History of white suburbia
48. Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism
49. George Wallace
50. Fox News
51. Tea Party
52. Cointelpro
53. Real estate steering
54. School tracking
55. Mass incarceration of black men
56. Boston school busing riots

Why there should be a White History Month « Abagond

[btsilver]

lol. I came in here expecting something else.

[Deezus]

57. The TV show "Friends"

[gomexico]

Yea, let's celebrate the "White People." We could invite somebody from the KKK to appear at our office luncheon honoring White People. Sheet over his head, and burning cross in hand. Great ideas!

[Deezus]

58. Justin Bieber's career

[Charles22]

It's always white history month.

[Michigantown]

I bet everyone would love to hear about the human zoos.

[718native]

57. All moving objects
58. refrigiration
59. western civilization

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by Charles22

It's always white history month.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December...

[718native]

or some of these things maybe Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Algebra. Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Almost every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, those are nerve agents, and maybe we didn't really need them.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. . Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera