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I didn't know that Mississippi has the highest population of African Americans in the country

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I also didn't know that Mississippi has the lowest education rate and the poorest population in the nation. (pg 51)

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"He proceeded to explain, black beans and yellow corn churning in his mouth, how Portland is the least racist place in America, that he's colorblind--"Look! My girlfriend's Japanese!" (pg. 121)

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When someone said that NYC used to be dangerous and another person went ¨oh well, after all, it was majority black, right?¨ (pg 145)

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in other classes, we've never really discussed gentrification and on page 146, the tour guide doesn't even know what it means. Gentrification is seen as good and safe while the dark parts are ignored like displacement

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The first thing Winona noted about the Utah Capitol Building was that it was "Very White." and it resembles the MA state building and courthouses, and even the BLS auditorium where everywhere you go, you see old white men staring you down from the walls. (pg. 211)

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Didn't know that Aurelia Bowder, Mary Louise, Smith Ware are all women we didn't learn about that had role in the Civil rights movement. (Pre Rosa Parks)

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don't be color-blind to race/racism, be color conscious and color-brave pg146

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Dind't know that Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was the mother of the civil rights movement

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Dind't know that Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was the mother of the civil rights movement

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"One day someone reminded me that if I don't have any initials behind my name, especially because of how I look, I'm disposable." (pg. 99)

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By the 1920s, Oregon had developed the highest per capita KKK membership in the country

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School segregation did not end in 1954 when the supreme court made the decision?! (Page 52)

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It is believed that god punished people by leaving a mark on them. Cain's curse was interpreted as black skin.
page 253

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¨when i was thirteen or fourteen i was walking in the mall and a white man grabbed my ass. It was the first time I thought about the fetishization  of Asian women¨ (pg 164)

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In 2015, 180 school districts were involved in desegregation cases; 44 of those were in Mississippi (pg 52)

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i didn't know that there was manyJapanese immigrants in Hawaii.

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This man from Nicaragua married a white Southern lady who thought Mexican was a language and thought the country her husband was from wasn't a real place (p. 122)

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The lighter your skin- the more privilege you are granted, the more you are deemed innocent, the more you are deemed attractive. p 195

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racial divisions from segregation stayed consistent even after it was abolished, and even today there are many schools that are majority black or majority white (pg 52)

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The average person can not name one woman other than Rosa parks who made a difference in the Civil Rights movement

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The average person can not name one woman other than Rosa parks who made a difference in the Civil Rights movement

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There was a significant Japanese population in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor bombing, and Winona points out the irony that while a Japanese pilot was committing a suicide bombing, he'd look out and see Japanese faces. Nationality, ethnicity and race are all very strange identifiers. (pg. 213)

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It is 29% less likely a black boy will drop out of school if he as had a black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade.

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french company is racist(wow shocker) but also contribute to tons of palm tree deforestation in Asia

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"There's a study about how, within our city, there's a life expectancy gap between the south and north of town. That gap is 16.1 years." (pg 273)

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It is a privilege to take a break of thinking about race. A privilege reserved to white people and honory whites.

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Somebody in the Former Nixon admin admitted they targeted people but didn't care

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Report: Aide says Nixon’s war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies | CNN Politics

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One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper’s Magazine.

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Police across the country kill more Black citizens today than those that were lynched in the height of U.S segregation (pg 53, footnote)

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mental illness is not shunned in some Native American cultures! I wish the story elaborated on this :( (pg. 219)

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"Police across the country kill 'more Black citizens today than were lynched at the height of U.S. segregation.' " (pg 53)

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¨I noticed Jay would get excited even if a white person is nice to him, and it is crazy that that is so engrained in his brain¨ (pg 170)

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"Don't forget to wear your googles. You don't want to have to read braille" . Sounds very ableist, not very funny, and to think that this is something that is found in a school

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"I was born and raised here in Hawai'i. My biological mother was sixteen years old and living in a girls's home in the hills of Kailua that was meant for "bad girls." Shortly after my mother gave birth to me, she gave me up for adoption."

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someone insulted a native american person using the words "prairie n****r" and essentially it's encouraging the idea of pitting people of color against each other and ignoring the root of the issue. this is rarely talked about in class, just how powerful white people find a "better minority" and try to unite with the other one through mutual hatred  pg150

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¨as of the 2014-2015 season, white actors held 70 percent of Broadway roles in New York City¨ (page 172)

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"White flight: After cities were racially integrated, many middle-class White people picked up their bags and moved to the suburbs. And while many believe that residential segregation has decreased, our cities and suburbs are in fact increasingly racially homogeneous today." (pg. 55)

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One woman was kicked out of a cooking show because she kept playing the "Mexican card" and cooking Mexican food. There's the idea of a perpetual foreigner in America that white people established, but when you conform to that persona, they then shame you for it. (pg. 222)

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"I met people and started using drugs at eleven years old." This woman went through a lot of hard times in her life, many of these experiences happening at a young age.

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context: A women of color is trying to get a PhD in cancer biology, she describes how her professor treated her and a white male in her class very differently
she says "One day I slept in the lab just to get him data, not necessarily safe in the middle of the night, in Detroit I gave and gave and gave because I believed if I worked harder, he would appreciate it one day. But it was never enough, I guess"(pg. 100)

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"I remember in high school, living in Kentucky, the woman I dated was a Black Woman. My granddad saw her, and said, '"Who's that little n-girl?'" (pg 279)

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The Kurds (people from Kurdish) are one of the biggest ethnic groups in the world- estimated around 30 million people

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Although the US is built off of capitalism, in a Spring 2016 politics pool in Harvard Kennedy School, 42 percent supported capitalism and 33 percent socialism, and majority reject both. Those who typically supported capitalism were white, male, from the South, while socialism for those who are democrats who are Hispanics or African Americans (Pg 317)

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pg 153 most people would choose not to get involved in something if it didn't affect them, but even if it doesn't directly affect you, it changes the lives of those around you and your community or futures. maybe white people who are the key to making changes need to be more educated about social/political issues so they feel comfortable and knowledgeable enough to speak up for minorities because we need their support

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When regarding their discussions with the Keetoowah Cherokees, Winona notes her surprise on the elders's negative opinions on interracial marriage. She assumed that as people of color, they would encourage and approve of interracial couples. She found that it was the exact opposite. Many expressed their concerns with not many full blooded Native Americans being left. A lot of members of the tribe go on to marry white people, so their children are not as accepted by the Keetoowah anymore. At first I thought this was some type of internalized discrimination because, How could the Keetoowah just not pay attention to a child in their tribe just because they weren't full blood? The line that then popped out to me was when Corrine says " White Supremacy is the foundation of all of this". ( p. 177) This is where they go onto make that point that "hurt people hurt people". I think this view brings things back to the root of the problem. white people.

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"one our first date, someone yelled out of there car 'what are you doing with a black whore?'"

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When the dad says to just bomb all of "them" already it reminded of this scum

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reinforced his rhetoric about "carpet bombing" ISIS during the Fox News Republican debate Thursday night.

When asked about his previous statements advocating carpet bombing ISIS "into oblivion," Cruz said that he would "apologize to nobody for the vigorousness with which" he would fight terrorism and destroy the terrorist group, which is also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh.

"You claim it is tough talk to discuss carpet bombing," Cruz said. "It is not tough talk. It is a different fundamental military strategy than what we've seen from Barack Obama."

Cruz continued to hammer Obama over his military strategy.

"Barack Obama right now, No. 1, over seven years, has dramatically degraded our military," he said.

He then invoked the Persian Gulf War, using it as justification of his strategy of increased air attacks:

Just two weeks ago was the 25th anniversary of the first Persian Gulf War. When that war began, we had 8,000 planes. Today we have about 4,000. When that war began, we had 529 ships, today we have 272. You want to know what carpet-bombing is? It's what we did in the first Persian Gulf War: 1,100 air attacks a day, saturation bombing that utterly destroyed the enemy. Right now Barack Obama is launching about 15 and 30 air attacks a day. He's not arming the Kurds. We need to define the enemy, we need to rebuild the military, to defeat the enemy, and we need to be focused and lift the rules of engagement so we're not sending our fighting men and women into combat with their arms tied behind their backs.

This isn't the first time Cruz has compared his strategy to the tactics used in the Persian Gulf War. He made similar comments in December, and The Washington Post noted that many of the air attacks from that war weren't quite carpet bombing, but rather precision attacks. Carpet bombing is generally considered large-scale, unguided bombing.

Cruz's ISIS strategy has been criticized by military experts who say that carpet bombing is not only ineffective, but also counterproductive and dangerous.

Christopher Harmer, a former US Navy officer and currently a senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, told Business Insider in December that "you have to be deliberately ignorant of the nature of ISIS ... [and] of the limits of air power to advocate carpet bombing."

Harmer pointed out that carpet bombing "really doesn't do anything except hit a bunch of civilians and maybe a few ISIS fighters" and "only applies when you're trying to level entire cities or destroy civilian populations."

Harmer also said that carpet-bombing in Iraq and Syria could actually end up helping ISIS. If American bombs kill innocent civilians, ISIS could use it to lure in new recruits, because it would play into their narrative that the West is at war with Muslims in general rather than ISIS specifically.

Cruz has previously defended his statements about carpet bombing by saying that he would use the strategy on ISIS positions rather than the cities ISIS occupies in Iraq and Syria. But since ISIS integrates with the civilians populations it controls, it's difficult to establish enemy positions that aren't surrounded by civilians.

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Ted Cruz doubles down on vow to 'carpet-bomb' ISIS

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reinforced his rhetoric about "carpet bombing" ISIS during the Fox News Republican debate Thursday night. When asked about his previous statements advocating carpet bombing ISIS "into oblivion," Cruz said that he would "apologize to nobody for the vigorousness with which" he would fight terrorism and destroy the terrorist group, which is also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, or Daesh.

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In some families, people willfully forget their racial history, and forgo the black experience ans struggle if they are white passing. (pg 63-64)

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pg 156 Treniya brings up that when white people go to developing countries and volunteer, yes it's a good thing but those peoples are praised for helping in a place their ancestors ruined and enslaved them. it's hard to be proud of your culture when you don't know your history

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that was crazy how I never knew that racist comment made, it should've been a huge story

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In the 40s and 50s, the US conducted mass nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands and have caused long term impacts. It's similar to uranium mining that is done near Native American tribes because they don't care as much if the radioactivity affects Native American people. (pg. 231)