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There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like:

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 enslaved women 19 Madison Grant 20 The Indian Wars 21 Human zoos 22 The colonization of aboriginals in australia 23 White flight 24 Redlining 25 Proposition 14 26 Homestead Act 27 Tulsa Riots 28 Rosewood massacre 29 Tuskegee Experiment 30 Lynching 31 Hollywood stereotypes 32 Indian Appropriations Acts 33 Immigration Act of 1924 34 Sundown towns 35 Chinese Exclusion Act 36 Emmett Till 37 Vincent Chin 38 Islamophobia 39 Indian boarding schools 40 King Philip’s War 41 Bacon’s Rebellion 42 American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery 43 History of the gun 44 History of the police 45 History of prisons 46 History of white suburbia 47 Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism 48 George Wallace Governor of Alabama 49 Cointelpro 50 Real estate steering 51 School tracking 52 Mass incarceration of black men 53 Boston school busing riots

By the way I got this list from facebook so I’m not an expert but I encourage everyone to look some of this stuff up, and so much more, if I missed something, go ahead and add!

Oh yeah,

54 chopping off indigenous women´s breasts off of leisure during the genocide

55 slamming indigenous children against huge rocks during the genocide

56 spaniards dividing into groups the indigenous women each white settler was gonna own and rape during the american genocide

57 In the catholic missions nailing native americans on crosses to represent the 12 disciples

58 and this: (I recommend the book The American Holocaust)

I don´t think yall understand how wicked these people are

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59. The Unangan evacuation and internment during World War II

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60. Dropping an Atomic Bomb on Japan even though the military knew that Japan was beaten and was near surrender.

61. The government assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

62. White america’s support of Apartheid

63. Nazism

64. Skinheads

65. Various lies attempting to paint Ancient Egyptians as white Europeans

66. “Modifying” authentic Egyptian artworks that demonstrate Black characteristics so they instead made it seem that Egyptians were white

67. Raping of Native American women and girls

68. The murder of Taíno Natives on the island of Ayiti (which we now call Haiti)

69. White racism ingrained in GI Bill, New Deal, Social Security Act and more

70. Second class badge (The History of Racism within Police Departments)

71. The ordering by the PBA to have cops terrorize NYC’s black and Puerto Rican communities

72. The destruction of Black Wall Street

73. The destruction of at least 10 other thriving Black communities

74. The History of Serial Killers (aka white males on murderous rampages)

75. White corporate sweatshop (Nike, Adidas)

76. Human trafficking

77. High rate of child molestation and rape among white communities

78. Forced sterilization of Blacks and Native women

79. Racist indoctrination of Black women through the media (ex: convincing Black women that unless they straightened their hair, they would not be considered beautiful, hired for jobs, make a living and etc)

80. “Last Hired, First Fired” racist hiring practices

81. Creation of various racial slurs

82. Poisoning of the environment through illegal disposal of toxins

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🙃

reverseracism

👀 y'all still want it or???

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They always ask for it every February

blondie

83. Whitewashing in Hollywood 84. Using National Guard to barricade black folk in a literally burning neighborhood during Watts Rebellion (portrayed as Watts Riots) 85. Mass cultural appropriation by white-owned and white-market brands for profit of Navajo, African-American, Hindi, etc. traditions

general-sassy-pants

This is the America they’re referring to when they say Make America Great Again.

kippachu

I WAS NOT WARNED ABOUT THIS

cielleduciel

you were warned this whole time, you fool,

sandandglass

This explains so much about Republican thinking.

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Republican Thinking

itzmiwrld

Seriously, who would say something like this?

arvenphotography

Im guessing, republicans.

ostolero

dogs deserve to live forever

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And humans don’t?

ostolero

absolutely not

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Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

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playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

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early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

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unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

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what the fuck

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galeries in art museums that are empty except for you

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

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•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

midtownsparker

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

the-crepes-of-wrath

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.