Great piece by D. Danyelle Thomas @blackmastodon#StopGenocide#Juneteenth
"No one can truly thrive in a persistently barren land without anything to sustain living. Although there is little in which to take solace, we are not without hope."
For those interested: I love setlists. So I’m making the #KendrickLamar#Juneteenth#ThePopOut#Setlist. In advance: There is no defederated way of pulling this off. For now. I checked. But if you have #songshift, I put it into every option possible. Will add to the thread. Please enjoy.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." (MLK) #Juneteenth
""The reason why Juneteenth resonates with Black people is that it is NOT the honoring of SOME Black people who got free from escaping, or from lawsuits, or from buying their freedom, or from slave revolts, or from being manumitted by their slaveowners, or by state constitutions, or by the Emancipation Proclamation.
It is the celebration of freedom AT LAST for ALL OF US."
"I … reflect this morning, sorrowfully, on the Party of Lincoln’s historic choice to respond to the Civil Rights era in the 1960s by abandoning its central mission of racial reconciliation and adopting a politics of exploitation of white racial fear. That decision, the purposeful adoption of what became known as the Southern Strategy, is, in retrospect, one of the great tragedies in American history."
"So while we celebrate freedom and Juneteenth today, we also must mourn the loss of the Party of Lincoln to some of the most virulent racists and xenophobes in American history."
In honor of Juneteenth, the team at @EatingWell has curated this @Flipboard Storyboard of recipes, all of which have special significance for the holiday. The collection contains dishes created by South Carolina cook and activist Mabel Owens Clark and Jessica B. Harris, the culinary historian and living legend, and includes recipes made with traditional prosperity ingredients such as collards, rice, beans and corn.
if you’re a whitey it’s a great idea to show your support by sending some Black folks some cash. We need it. Many are posting mutual aid requests but struggle to meet their goals for months or years. There’s also threads of them. edit: linked thread in post.
If you have a disposable income or even a few dollars to spare I highly recommend to donate to the fundraisers, buy the art/wishlist items/etc. of those most marginalized and in need rather than large charities and corporations.
Black people do not have generational wealth because of centuries of slavery. Asking for money is not greedy and giving it to us is not unnecessary. Say that again til you understand.
Thank you to @SingsongRaptor for the beautiful canvas brightening up my studio apartment 🩷✨
Go buy their photography! Ze’s always posting lovely art and is also in need of mutual aid for zer family. (maybe support a Black artist for #Juneteenth i dunno :ganyustare:)
🎉 #Juneteenth is here again!
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🥰 Share all the wonderful things from our African diaspora friends!
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
Today is Juneteenth. Michelle Garcia, Editorial Director of NBCBLK, curated Flipboard's Good Life newsletter this week. She chose a range of stories about the past and present of Juneteenth, including a look at the "Harriet Tubman of Texas," the commercialization of the holiday, and the work that still remains. "Now that it's a federal holiday, part of figuring out how to mark the day as a nation comes with educating the public about it," writes Garcia. Here's her Storyboard.
(1/)Juneteenth? That’s a great excuse to help me out! I paid my phone bill before my loan payment come out. I MEANT to take the money out again and use it for my phone. It’s a lot, about $160 so anything is welcome. anything more is needed for food 🙏🏾🥹
The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe - "A Spirit Speaks" (1974)
This album features siblings Bill Lee (bass), Consuela Lee Moorhead (piano), Grace Lee Mims (vocal), and Cliff Lee (fluegelhorn). The group was named after slave ancestors of the Lee family. This is an extraordinary record and one of the gems of the #StrataEast catalog.
Happy Juneteenth to all #mastodon, much love and shared resolve to my African American brothers and sisters out there. Shoutout to the diaspora as well #Juneteenth#BlackMastodon
If you (like me) are American but not Black, you might feel like Juneteenth is a Black holiday that doesn't really apply to you. Nice to have a day off, but not really something to celebrate yourself. That's misguided.
Juneteenth is very much a Black holiday, and we should absolutely center Black people in celebrations of it. But at the same time two things are true:
A whole bunch of people were freed from a horribly oppressive institution. Everyone everywhere can celebrate that, even if the specific people who were freed have the most to celebrate. This is a historic change towards a more free & just world, and there aren't that many of those.
Like all oppressive institutions, slavery contorted & harmed the oppressors (and those who benefitted indirectly from the oppression). Certainly not to the same degree as the enslaved people, but the harm is real, perhaps most noticeably in how the poison of justifying or even just accepting one oppressive institution invites others to flourish, and also in the ways that harming others or accepting their oppression alienates us from all other humans.
So if you recognize that freedom for anyone is a victory for everyone, then there's good reason to celebrate Juneteenth whether or not your ancestors were enslaved. Again, this doesn't change the need to center Black voices in the celebration, nor does it mean we need to celebrate "America" here. But if you view African-Americans as so "other" that you can't celebrate their emancipation as a great thing for the whole world, and one that makes the world better for everyone including you, then you've got some work to do on your implicit worldview.