actually if they leave it up like in this photo it’s perfect https://t.co/N1tgE6272i
— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 19, 2020
.@USNatArchives has discovered what appears to be the original "Juneteenth" military order that announced to the people of Texas in 1865 that "all slaves are free." #EverythingHasAHistoryhttps://t.co/Sm3n1WWzjK
— AHA (@AHAhistorians) June 19, 2020
“Juneteenth is a celebratory event but we’re not celebrating the country. We’re celebrating our own freedom and our own ability to be liberated and the resiliency of black people.”
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 18, 2020
Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It's a celebration of progress. It's an affirmation that despite the most painful parts of our history, change is possible––and there is still so much work to do.https://t.co/5XCRdnk3iR
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2020
NotMax
Nothing left to say about this that hasn’t already been stated a hundred different ways here today.
YMMV.
AJ
Attended a really powerful Juneteenth webinar today hosted by the library here in Fort Collins.
Very moving direct testimony from local Black Lives Matters leaders and Latinx co hosts and a young community organizer and anthropologist.
Big love to this community for helping me continuing to learn and shed some of the blindnesses of my privilege.
Jay
Jay
AJ
@Jay: they have military equipment but not even the basic discipline or accountability that I read a group of Afghanistan veterans discussing on Reddit.
I know lots of reddit is a cesspool and I think it’s generally despised here on the Juice, but I thought it was insightful how they talked about the training in self restraint and de escalation was so much higher in their deployment overseas than for cops here.
Jay
AJ
@Jay: Jesus fucking Christ
Jay
@AJ:
Moundville has a population of 2407.
Here, they wouldn’t even have a Cop, let alone an entire “Department”, SWAT Team and now an MRAP.
Jay
Jay
Happy Juneteenth,
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Kentucky’s largest county, home to 767,000 residents and the city of Louisville, will have a single polling station for the state’s primary. <br>
<br>About 1 in 5 residents in the county is African American, the largest black population in the state.<a href=”https://t.co/Q2R2WZiwfN”>https://t.co/Q2R2WZiwfN</a></p>— Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) <a href=”https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1274177579902275585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>June 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
“Demilitarized” or “reorganized” would probably be better branding tbh
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
iT’S OnLy oLd aNd vUlNeRaBlE PeOpLe! Do sOmE ReSeArCh! YoU CaN’T LiVe yOuR LiFe iN FeAr! OvErBlOwN HyPe! /s
Amir Khalid
Note to self: During lockdown, do not get Jalapeño Bombers with takeaway order at Texas Chicken. Cold Jalapeño Bombers with the cheese all congealed are no good.
I agree, Juneteenth should be a national American holiday.
AJ
@Jay: ty for sharing all these tonight
Goddamn
AJ
@Amir Khalid: Duly noted haha
Jay Noble
Kind of Juneteenth adjacent but I haven’t seen a mention here of Homeland Security’s reaction to SCOTUS DACA ruling. It appears to be they are are coming incredibly close to ignoring it. That would come under the heading of very bad things.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/06/18/dhs-statement-supreme-court-decision-daca
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
sadly, the reality of Cop Culture, is that the whole structure is rotten, and irredeemable.
tear it out, root and branch, start over and give 90% of the workload over to forms of social service, community service.
Sadly, there are no “good cops” because they are complicit.
Jay
Jay
Jay
Jay
Jay
Just brilliant,
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: I’m leaning towards December 6th myself as Juneteenth is more specific to Texas.
Or both.
Both is good.
Jay
Jay
Wyatt Salamanca
Some great video clips of James Baldwin
I could listen to him talk for hours, he was so inspiring and charismatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPaBXcEVpOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRziHGxeEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPoelsfoOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wht4NSf7E4
Jay
Jay
Funny that,
Up here, it’s called a bribe.
Jay
Jay
Jay
Jay
MagdaInBlack
I have to thank you, Jay, your tweet posts are keeping me busy ?
Jay
@MagdaInBlack:
lot’s of evil is being done under the cover of Covid.
lot’s of good too.
alot of people in power/of power have no idea how angry we all are. We sacrificed to keep us all safe, they fucked off and looted the treasury.
trnc
@Jay: Just when you think the NYT might start to redeem itself, you notice the story about undercounted deaths caused by police is in the opinion section. I wonder, instead of defunding police, if NYC made the cops and NYT employees switch places, could either do any worse?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Jay:
I was at yesterday’s Louisville protests – there were a lot of powerful moments.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
For this, they dispatched multiple helos and MRAPs.
Miki
Always late to the party, but wanted to send profuse thanks to Annie for the Tracy Chapman video.
Wow.
Really – thanks.
kindness
You know what I find odd about Texas being the last southern slave state? It left Mexico in 1836 and under Mexican rule slavery was outlawed. So in 25 years (the start of the civil war) the state went from no slaves (supposubly) to a big time slave state. Then it kept acting like it was a Confederacy Bad Boy for the next 150 years. How does that work?
J R in WV
@kindness:
Because you have a missing fact in your paragraph. The reason Texas declared independence from Mexico, and fought a war with Mexico, was because Mexico banned slavery many years before the US ended slavery. All that Alamo stuff with Davy Crockett and those heroes of Texas independence, they were all fighting for slavery, every one of them!
So Texas fought two wars to keep slaves. Twice as despicable as every other state in the CSA.
Texas would prefer not to mention that these days, for some reason that I can’t, quite… figure. out.