We will never let the extremists cancel our history.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
James Brown's Say It Loud (I'm Black & I'm Proud)(1968). His record company wanted him to change it to "I'm Black BUT I'm proud," but James refused, knowing that changing "AND" to "but" destroyed its meaning. Also, James said, "That song cost me a lot of my crossover audience…I don't regret it."
— Black Music Project (@blackmusicproject.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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At a Juneteenth sleepover, campers commune with ancestors
A South Carolina park was once a town founded by freed people. Now visitors sleep there to get close to history www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/…— Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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10 years ago this week, a white supremacist killed nine people at a historic South Carolina church.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/generat…
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Trump won't commit to an antislavery position out of fear of angering his Confederate base.
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) June 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Very confused on how Juneteenth presents logistical issues that St. Patrick's Day does not.
Also, can we stop using DEI as a euphemism for Black and just be honest? Juneteenth is not a "diversity initiative" it's a holiday celebrating Black folks' freedom. Full stop.— Chaos Cherub (@biensur-jetaime.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
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5 years after CHOP in Seattle, teen’s shooting death is without answers https://t.co/bp18qpNMfh
— 🌎 🌍 ☮️ Carl Doss (@unixdoss) March 18, 2025
Baud
100%
Omnes Omnibus
So I was giving a work presentation over Teams (buncha fucking bullshit) and, at the beginning, I noted that it was a holiday and wished everyone a Happy Juneteenth. One person laughed derisively. Guess the age, race, and gender of this person.
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the fucking hill. Good for you for how you started the presentation, though. You got the boulder another few feet up.
Spanky
@Omnes Omnibus: White male, but could be any age, imo.
Omnes Omnibus
@Spanky: White male, late middle age.
Lyrebird
Thanks for front-paging these Anne Laurie!
No lies told…
QFT.
Craig
@Omnes Omnibus: that tracks.
Splitting Image
Every so often we get someone here who attempts to argue that these people are reasonable but believe that trans rights, or the me-too movement, or corporate DEI initiatives, or whatever their outrage-du-jour happens to be, has gone too far.
That’s actually pretty difficult to believe when they are willing to come right out and say that they think the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation was going too far.
What’s next? Demanding that the British government apologize for abolishing their end of the slave trade? Government overreach! Illegal restraint of trade!
NotMax
@Baud
At first glance, read that as “excrements.”
Works either way.
kindness
Say It Loud may have cost James Brown some of his crossover audience. Yet I remember hearing it all the time on the radio when it came out and for a while after. My impression is it didn’t affect his tri-state area (NYC) audience negatively. Of course, back then AM radio had motown and pop on the same station, so it was a good fit.
prostratedragon
At my building today:
BellyCat
James Brown: Uppity genius WAY ahead of his time. :-)
TS
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mr TS agrees 100% with your view of teams – and I hope every non laugher thought long & hard about the person who did laugh.
Trivia Man
@Omnes Omnibus: like me! Except i was the one on Teams wishing everyone a happy Juneteenth and thanking them for working on a holiday. Supply Chain doesn’t ever get a day completely off, even weekends have something. Everyone was polite today.
Omnes Omnibus
@TS: I will just say that I know who it was and I will be keeping a close eye on any of his interactions with clients of color. This wasn’t enough for a complaint, but it was enough that I have suspicions.
stacib
@kindness: The line in the song “we’d rather die on our feet than live on our knees” resonated as a kid and means just as much to me today as when I first heard it as a kid in the 60s.
rikyrah
@stacib:
Me too
Very powerful