This Life I've Been Given;

— Kurt Vonnegut (via hplyrikz)

Clear your mind here

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)

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