Some great things to talk to your kids about this July Fourth:
- America's history of slavery (don't forget the founding fathers)
- The Trump regime's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
- Japanese internment camps
- Drone usage by the Obama administration
- The Trail of Tears
- Waterboarding
- The Three-Fifths Compromise
- Tulsa, 1921
- Leonard Peltier
- Standing Rock
- The ecological effects of Trump's border wall
- Nagasaki and Hiroshima
- The motivations behind the Iraq war
- Native American genocide in California in the late 1800s
- Jim Crow laws
- The death of MLK
- For-profit prisons
- The Equal Rights Amendment
- The Stonewall Riots
- Operation Paperclip
- Republican gerrymandering and disenfranchisement