White Historical past Month
Each February, like clockwork, whitefolk emerge from the depths complaining about Black Historical past Month and demanding a white one. Our utterly comprehensible response has been, “Each month is white Historical past Month. We don’t want a particular designated month.” Nonetheless, I encourage to vary. Whitefolk (and all people) completely deserve an annual highlight on white historical past. There’s an excessive amount of white historical past that by no means will get taught in our faculties. White historical past just like the 1999 King vs. Jowers case that noticed a jury conclude a conspiracy involving unnamed authorities companies contributing to MLK’s homicide. White historical past like proof specified by a number of locations together with Stuart A. Reid’s e-book “The Lumumba Plot: The Secret Historical past of the CIA and a Chilly Battle Assassination” that confirm America’s hand within the assassination of the democratically elected chief of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba.
White historical past just like the 1963 terroristic bombing of Birmingham’s sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church. The stealing of over 12 million acres of Black-owned farmland. The denial of GI advantages to Black vets. The consuming of revolt chief Nat Turner. Sure, they ate him after they tortured, lynched and mutilated his physique, per scholarship shared within the e-book “The Delectable Negro” by Vincent Woodard. The true Thanksgiving story of pilgrims partaking in cannibalism. The USA serving because the mannequin and inspiration for Nazi Germany based on eye-witness accounts shared in James Q. Whitman’s e-book “Hitler’s American Mannequin.” The 2 males who murdered Emmett Until getting off scot free, then getting paid handsomely by Life Journal to inform the story of how they killed Emmett Until. The truth that I might go on and on underscores why we actually do want a white Historical past Month.
It’s not the economic system, silly
For the gazillionaires behind the Trump/Vance ticket, final November’s election was by no means in regards to the economic system or the value of eggs. It was in regards to the hyper-wealthy having fun with unincumbered, unchallenged energy eternally. And for them, democracy was an issue. Enter VP Vance, who’s a disciple of Curtis Yarvin. All of Vance’s political viewpoints and concepts come from Yarvin. Vance stated in an interview that he wished to tear out the present political system “like a tumor.” Yarvin referred to as the U.S. authorities a big system that must be destroyed. Similar factor. Like Yarvin, Vance believes the present U.S. system of democracy is ineffective at eradicating individuals from political energy who he and his crew despise: people who imagine in equality, democracy, civil rights and equal safety underneath the regulation. The answer? A CEO to run the U.S. company. Yarvin publicly stated, “An precise CEO is what’s referred to as a dictator. It’s the identical factor. There’s no distinction between CEO and dictator. If Individuals wish to change their authorities, they’re gonna should recover from dictator phobia.” That is what’s driving the Trump/Vance/Musk bus… as the value of eggs continues to soar.
Shrinking residents
FYI, DEI hires aren’t “unqualified.” Simply the other. As thought chief Lurie Daniel Favors places it, DEI math reveals that as a result of Blackfolk have all the time needed to be twice nearly as good to get half as a lot on this nation, by the point we get employed, we’re 4 instances extra certified than our skilled counterparts. However ending DEI additionally means ending the a part of DEI that all the time will get ignored. DEI is definitely DEIA: range, fairness, inclusion and accessibility. The 1973 Part 504 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that buildings are wheelchair accessible. It additionally requires Ok-college lecturers, medical doctors, and so on. to offer their info in methods accessible to people with varied disabilities. Most individuals studying this have by no means recognized a world the place such accessibility provisions weren’t the norm.
However the anti-DEI people are hellbent on ending accessibility (even Texas Gov. Greg Abbott). Of their world, the disabled, like Blackfolk and different POC, aren’t worthy of full citizenship. There are even stories of shops discontinuing the sale of plus-size clothes, shrinking much more the definition of “acceptable American.” They (MAGA Republicans) have already focused unwed girls, childless girls, liberals and the college-educated as targets for having rights restricted, leaving solely white males with unfettered entry to full citizenship. If solely that they had written about their nefarious plans earlier than we voted final November (cough, cough… Undertaking 2025).
