Pearls Before Swine

Deneseia LaShea’

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:

Cherokee Trail of Tears

Japanese American internment

Philippine-American War

Jim Crow

The genocide of Native Americans

Transatlantic slave trade

The Middle Passage

The history of White American racism

Black Codes

Slave patrols

Ku Klux Klan

The War on Drugs

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide

How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide

White anti-racism

The Southern strategy

The rape of black slave women

CORE

Madison Grant

The Indian Wars

Human zoos

How the Jews became white

White flight

Redlining

Proposition 14

Homestead Act

Tulsa Riots

Rosewood massacre

Tuskegee Experiment

Lynching

Hollywood stereotypes

Indian Appropriations Acts

Immigration Act of 1924

Sundown towns

Chinese Exclusion Act

Emmett Till

Vincent Chin

Islamophobia

Indian boarding schools

King Philip’s War

Bacon’s Rebellion

American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery

History of the gun

History of the police

History of prisons

History of white suburbia

Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism

George Wallace

Fox News

Cointelpro

Real estate steering

School tracking

Mass incarceration of black men

Boston school busing riots

And so on. No fear of running out of topics: there is more than one a day! I am sure my commenters can come up with tons more, probably some big ones that are not coming to mind at the moment (I did not list slavery, the abolitionist movement, the civil war, Reconstruction or Lincoln since they are, in fact, covered in history class, however poorly).