also too, when somebody told him that the White House had issued a statement about juneteenth, he had to to add "The Trump White House put out a statement?" i think i would be exhausted if i always had to be remembering to add my own name to every single thing i ever said.
Psychopaths never seem to get exhausted. It's confounding the amount of sheer mental energy they expend convincing everyone - including themselves - that they're right. I wish I had that kind of energy.
As a Black man growing up in Chicago I never heard of Juneteenth until moving to Texas when I was in my 50's. I thought it was strange that my country brothers and sisters were celebrating being too stupid to know slavery had been abolished two years earlier. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I've know about Juneteenth longer than I've known about Our Sacred Lord The Donald. It was first officially celebrated in my home town in 1976, but I'd heard of it before then. It was criticized as a "made up holiday," you know, unlike Mothers Day and Fathers Day which were started by Jesus.
The truth is, a lot of white folks hadn't heard of it. Yes, the president didn't tell black folks anything they didn't know, but face it, the change that's happening now is educating a lot of people. And if the occupier of the White House helps spread that education with his insensitivity and outright racism, so be it.
Jelani Cobb over at the New Yorker has a piece out today about Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom that I highly recommend: https://www.newyorker.com/m...
"Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones."
My ancestors were enslaved in the West Indies. Like the rest of the British Empire, freedom (or a version of it) came on August 1, 1834, when Queen Victoria proclaimed into law the Slavery Abolition Act, which had been passed by the British parliament in 1830.
That's why Caribana, my hometown's massive West Indian festival, is always held on the long weekend closest to August 1. In Ontario, that weekend has the added bonus of being a holiday called Simcoe Day. John Graves Simcoe was a colonial leader is Ontario (then called Upper Canada), and he pushed the legislature to pass the first anti-slavery act in the British Empire, in 1793. It's why Canada (specifically, Upper Canada) was the terminus of the Underground Railroad.
If they got closer the plastic coating might melt.
oooh, that's very different... Never mind!
Dunno
Have to put it through a Wingnut to English translation
also too, when somebody told him that the White House had issued a statement about juneteenth, he had to to add "The Trump White House put out a statement?" i think i would be exhausted if i always had to be remembering to add my own name to every single thing i ever said.
Psychopaths never seem to get exhausted. It's confounding the amount of sheer mental energy they expend convincing everyone - including themselves - that they're right. I wish I had that kind of energy.
And Barbara Jordan!
As a Black man growing up in Chicago I never heard of Juneteenth until moving to Texas when I was in my 50's. I thought it was strange that my country brothers and sisters were celebrating being too stupid to know slavery had been abolished two years earlier. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
My nom for best quote from a cartoon character evah: https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I hear they have a great storage building in Dallas for school books.
I've know about Juneteenth longer than I've known about Our Sacred Lord The Donald. It was first officially celebrated in my home town in 1976, but I'd heard of it before then. It was criticized as a "made up holiday," you know, unlike Mothers Day and Fathers Day which were started by Jesus.
The truth is, a lot of white folks hadn't heard of it. Yes, the president didn't tell black folks anything they didn't know, but face it, the change that's happening now is educating a lot of people. And if the occupier of the White House helps spread that education with his insensitivity and outright racism, so be it.
Jelani Cobb over at the New Yorker has a piece out today about Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom that I highly recommend: https://www.newyorker.com/m...
"Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones."
My ancestors were enslaved in the West Indies. Like the rest of the British Empire, freedom (or a version of it) came on August 1, 1834, when Queen Victoria proclaimed into law the Slavery Abolition Act, which had been passed by the British parliament in 1830.
That's why Caribana, my hometown's massive West Indian festival, is always held on the long weekend closest to August 1. In Ontario, that weekend has the added bonus of being a holiday called Simcoe Day. John Graves Simcoe was a colonial leader is Ontario (then called Upper Canada), and he pushed the legislature to pass the first anti-slavery act in the British Empire, in 1793. It's why Canada (specifically, Upper Canada) was the terminus of the Underground Railroad.
Why hasn't it been made into a movie yet?
I think you're going to do just fine here.
Why are they even using hard cover textbooks at all?