1) Considering that I’m going into the History field for my major and I want to be a Historian. Saying that whiteness informs this field would be theunderstatement of the century.
2) During my earlier years of school and up until I graduated from high school. I’ve learned history from the white perspective and we were taught
what appealed to them. I never learned anything from Indigenous groups, slavery or anything outside that perspective up until college. The way
whiteness informed history was they ignore how nonwhite groups contributed to the development of the United States according to our slides. For
example, when I was taught about Columbus discovery America and he was a good remodel and everything during my earlier years in school. But
now, I’m learning the dark truth about Columbus. I did not know Columbus was a horrible person that enabled maltreatment of the Indigenous
people and in reality, he discovered the Caribbean. We don’t learn the real side of history and the tragedy’s that occurred.
3) The consequence of this normalization is people are going to be blind from the truth. In reality, from what I’ve learned from my history classes in
college, there are a lot of nonwhites that helped contributed the development of America and they helped us in the long run. If we were to say, the
whites just did everything and hid the truth that they didn’t, then it would cause an uprising.
4) I say we should call it out and show said person the actual historical facts that how what they are taught is biased.