Chinese laborers. Railroad.

Maybe it’s time to go the other way. Racism, xenophobia right out loud. Everyone should stand by their beliefs and let us have it right in the face. No subversive hidden stuff. Then we can make choices about it. Decide if we want our kids with that teacher, in that school, if we want that guy as a neighbor or…

Uh, I think it’s a burro. It’s got a serape on. Representing Mexicans?

The student high school student handbook is protected. The elementary school has a bullying and harassment policy, of course. Because they treat other the way they want to be treated.

Spirit Week. Getting ready for the big game.

There’s always red-skinning. It’s gone out of fashion but it could come back.

Are they cheerleaders at a football game?

I get it. Thank you for that. Point taken.

A cowboy, his horse, cast-iron frying pan and a jug of hootch

Yes, they know what it was. Or at least some sanitized palatable version. That’s the whole point of the banner.

Notice there’s no Indian Brave. Lotsa cowboys (even girls), but nobody wanted to be a Native man. No one’s in a Custer uniform either. I guess that might be too much of a tacit acknowledgement that it was a sanctioned military action.