wildunicornherd:

youngbadmanbrown:

No, I mean it, I’d love for you to have one but you couldn’t deal.

A single month highlighting every atrocity committed by white society?

Little white chillins would go home and slit their wrists.

Make it one of the long ones like October or something

In no particular order:

1. Columbus and the conquistadors
2. European antisemitism, antiziganism, pogroms and the Holocaust
3. The triangle trade and slavery in the British Empire & U. S.
4. Lynching and Jim Crow
5. The invention of gynecology, the Tuskegee experiment, Mississippi appendectomies
6. South African apartheid
7. King Leopold and the Belgian Congo
8. The Chinese Immigration Act/Chinese Exclusion Act and the head tax
9. Japanese-American/Japanese-Canadian internment
10. Residential schools, Indian boarding schools
11. Stolen Generations
12. The Philippine-American War
13. The Iran-Contra affair
14. Embargoes against Haiti
15. Cecil Rhodes and his legacy
16. “White flight” and gentrification
17. “First wave” suffragists and race

Feel free to add on…

18. COINTELPRO

19. The crack epidemic

20. the War on Drugs

21. Exclusion from the GI Bill

22. Exclusion from labor unions

23. The rise of white supremacist violence in response to radical Reconstruction

24. The link between the creation of the KKK and the institution of policing in the US

(Source: youngbadmangone, via madamethursday)