1 It is not, and never has been, true that the Hyaenidae is a family distinguished by scavenging. 2  Of the four species alive today-the Aardwolf and the Spotted, Striped and Brown Hyaenas-only the latter two are full-time scavengers.
In other words, the legal construction of white and non-white in U.S. history is one engine that drives the way that the past continues to shape the present. Whiteness has been made to appear natural, that is, as objective scientific fact, in U.S. cultural and legal history.
To settle the score once and for all, HuffPost Black Voices produced a video spelling out exactly why white history month isn't necessary. (You can watch that above!) While in recent years words like diversity and representation have become buzzwords, whiteness is still a kind of default identity setting in American culture.