I had never thought about how taking children away from their homes would later result in such a dramatic loss of land for the native population. I did not know that the gasoline baths happened for such a long period of time along the border. The fact that those fears still feed into imprisoning immigrants today is beyond appalling. Learning about the redlining of neighborhoods and racism in banking and how that directly relates to environmental racism shows just how complicated and institutionalized racism is in this country.
The history of racism is still with us and is perpetuated in all of our institutions- the very fact that public school curricula do not include so much of the information covered in some of these videos just goes to show how white supremacy inculcates ignorance into the population and it takes active effort to educate oneself let alone to make oneself anti-racist.