Luke’s Reviews > The History of White People > Status Update

Anyone still wondering where Trump came from is required to read up on the KKK nearly taking over the Democratic Party in 1924.

The fact that Kenneth L. Roberts has a place in history certainly explains where Rush Limbaugh spawned from.

[Edward A.] Ross belonged to the mass of progressives like Roosevelt who termed the opponents of involuntary sterilization—such as social workers, immigrants, and African Americans—"sentimentalists."

Innate qualities are needed to prove the justice—the naturalness and inalterability—of the status quo.

Back east, in a decidedly bizarre event, a Know-Nothing mob assaulted a block of marble. The offending stone, taken from the Temple of Concord in Rome, was a gift from Pope Pius IX to be placed in the Washington Monument, still under construction. When the stone proved reisstant to destruction, the mob dumped it into the Potomac River.

Ironically, perhaps, the woman whose skull gave white people [the name of Caucasian] had been a sex slave in Moscow, like thousands of her compatriots in Russia and the Ottoman empire.

The equation of color with primitivism meant that experts often suppressed and removed color when they found it in the Greeks. Even now, the discovery of ancient Greek polychromy can still make news, for the allure of Winckelmann's hard, white, young bodies lives on.

As late as the mid-seventeenth century, some three thousand Britons per year endured involuntary servitude in North Africa, even as the trade from Africa to the Western Hemisphere was gathering momentum...over more than a millenium, the vast story of Western slavery was primarily a white story. Geography, not race, ruled, and potential white slaves, like vulnerable aliens everywhere, were nearby for the taking.

Gotta keep up my streak of reading books whose last 100 pages are end notes.