Jul 17, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 17 segments
On this week's episode of TheFallenState TV, host Jesse Lee Peterson is joined by Benjamin Krause—He is a nationally recognized veterans rights advocate, disabled U.S. Air Force veteran, investigative…
Benjamin KrauseGuest
Jesse Lee PetersonHost
Not to sound overly diplomatic here, but I would say I don't see anything wrong with celebrating everybody's contribution to history or America, right? So whether it's Black History Month, if it's going to be called White History Month, I guess.
You know, but but I think that, you know, as an American, I would prefer, frankly, just to see, you know, his American History Month and just talk about all the great things that all Americans contributed, you know, red, white, blue, whatever color you are to make our country amazing.
And so from my perspective, I'd rather just see America history and have that be the thing, you know.
But have you noticed that they celebrate every history but white history? They celebrate black history, mama history, woman history, Ala'u'aba history, Mexican history, All kind of history, everything but white history.
Isn't that kind of odd since white America founded and created the greatest country on the planet? Wouldn't you think that they would be happy if they're going to celebrate all these different history months? Wouldn't you think they would be happy to celebrate? Why history? Because if it wasn't for white people, there would be no America.
So when it comes to history and what it means in America, I think that a lot of academics have said that... white history is prevalent in all textbooks anyway and so by calling out the other backgrounds then they're they're trying to to heighten our awareness about you know i guess i would call it non-white history but at the end of the day like when it comes to like white i guess i mean there's so many different backgrounds even hispanic uh african you know whether it's um I don't know what white really means in this kind of context.
I have, you know, people that are in our history as a family that contributed to America, you know, in the past.
I don't really think about it as white or not white, but uh personally i'm i'm happy and honored to have a family that has contributed you know we have uh on my wife's side of the family my kids are distant relatives of uh i think it's bach uh in germany right and so i think you and i before we're talking a little bit about the german riff and uh and so our family has uh you know somebody like bach and and then but you're all white
Not to sound overly diplomatic here, but I would say I don't see anything wrong with celebrating everybody's contribution to history or America, right? So whether it's Black History Month, if it's going to be called White History Month, I guess.
You know, but but I think that, you know, as an American, I would prefer, frankly, just to see, you know, his American History Month and just talk about all the great things that all Americans contributed, you know, red, white, blue, whatever color you are to make our country amazing.
And so from my perspective, I'd rather just see America history and have that be the thing, you know.
But have you noticed that they celebrate every history but white history? They celebrate black history, mama history, woman history, Ala'u'aba history, Mexican history, All kind of history, everything but white history.
Isn't that kind of odd since white America founded and created the greatest country on the planet? Wouldn't you think that they would be happy if they're going to celebrate all these different history months? Wouldn't you think they would be happy to celebrate? Why history? Because if it wasn't for white people, there would be no America.
So when it comes to history and what it means in America, I think that a lot of academics have said that... white history is prevalent in all textbooks anyway and so by calling out the other backgrounds then they're they're trying to to heighten our awareness about you know i guess i would call it non-white history but at the end of the day like when it comes to like white i guess i mean there's so many different backgrounds even hispanic uh african you know whether it's um I don't know what white really means in this kind of context.
I have, you know, people that are in our history as a family that contributed to America, you know, in the past.
I don't really think about it as white or not white, but uh personally i'm i'm happy and honored to have a family that has contributed you know we have uh on my wife's side of the family my kids are distant relatives of uh i think it's bach uh in germany right and so i think you and i before we're talking a little bit about the german riff and uh and so our family has uh you know somebody like bach and and then but you're all white
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