HAPPY JUNETEENTH DAY, Y'ALL!

[quote]Let us discuss this and also have a discussion about reparations.

You wouldn't happen to be a troll, OP?

A bit more history (for those of you who did not know it):

News traveled slowly back in those days—it took Confederate soldiers in western Texas more than two months to hear that Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox. Still, some have struggled to explain the 30-month gap between the proclamation and freedom, leading some to suspect that Texan slave owners purposely suppressed the announcement. Other theories include that the original messenger was murdered to prevent the information from being relayed or that the Federal government purposely delayed the announcement to Texas in order to get one more cotton harvest out of the slaves. But the real reason is probably that Lincoln's proclamation simply wasn't enforceable in the rebel states before the end of the war."

[quote]You wouldn't happen to be a troll, OP?

Of course not, R1. I can have a healthy and pleasant discussion about race, Trump, abortion, etc. However, I do know that this is a topic that can attract a bad element, if you will. You call them trolls. I call them racists.

Juneteenth or Emancipation Day is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.

Sorry for doubting you, OP. But DL of late has become a racist cesspool.

Mitch McConnell on Reparations: 'We’ve Elected an African-American President'--Therefore, debt paid!

The topic of reparations has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues as of late, culminating in a House hearing on Wednesday that will explore the subject and “examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.”

The latest to offer his unseasoned opinion on the matter is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who makes it explicitly clear ya’ll can take that “40 acres and a mule” bullshit somewhere else.

The Hill reports that the 77-year-old senator had plenty to say on the matter while talking to reporters on Tuesday.

“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” McConnell said. “We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

We. Elected. An. African. American. President.

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Really a sight to see Mitch McConnell dismiss reparations by citing the election of Barack Obama from whom he stole a Constitutionally-granted Supreme Court nomination. You can’t take credit for things you’ve worked so hard to undermine.

4:46 PM - Jun 18, 2019

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[quote]Sorry for doubting you, OP. But DL of late has become a racist cesspool.

Of LATE?

Juneteenth always brings out the emotions in me in a way other celebrations never do.

Actually, it's not Juneteenth Day it's just Juneteenth

Absolutely riveting. Watch and listen as Rick Santorum stumbles. If you are unaware of this issue it's time to become aware regardless of where you stand and position yourself about it. This short clip gives a cogent argument of why the discussion for reparations for the African American community is LONG overdue and why they should be had.

Juneteenth celebrations in Texas were last weekend.

You can't inherit the pain and injustice of things that happened to long-dead relatives. Unless those things involve illegality like broken treaties, theft, etc.

I know everyone likes to get a check in the mail, but it's not going to happen. It's impossible; that money would come from current taxpayers who may or may have had ancestors who had anything to do with slavery.

It was horrible, but it happened to other people and it's over. Move on.

Take your crap out of our pride month. June is our month!

[quote]I know everyone likes to get a check in the mail, but it's not going to happen. It's impossible; that money would come from current taxpayers who may or may have had ancestors who had anything to do with slavery.

With all due respect, that's a very naive and simplistic view of the issue. The direct and aggressive destroying of reconstruction literally set Blacks back 2-3 generations and counting. Are you aware of what former slaves were able to accomplish in just 2-3 years after the Civil War ended? Land ownership, schools, education, elected office, etc But, there is more...

What is ever rarely discussed is the number of successful Black communities that were burned to ashes. These communities had their own professionals, commerce, etc. Bottom line, it was pretty much jealousy that brought about the destruction of these communities. The race was/is terrorized. But, there is more...

What is never discussed either is the concerted effort of a White faction (let's make it simple and call it White supremacy) that has been actively working to make sure that Whites remain in charge and that the Black race remain subservient. Do you really think that slavery ended after the Civil War? Even to this day, there are those who are trying to resurrect the institution in some sort of fashion. Are you familiar with peonage? The Jim Crow laws? The attack upon voting rights, etc?

Is celebrating Juneteenth a recent thing?

I'm 34, but I don't remember it every being a thing until recently. It even showed up this year on my iCal list of American holidays?

May need to do some research into what/who/why it's become more prominent, unless someone can point me in that direction.

R16 is a bad millennial and actually an Eldergay for using apple products. You're a bad millennial!

[quote]Take your crap out of our pride month. June is our month!

Darling, June 19th (Juneteenth) has been celebrated ever since 1868. That was waaaaay before; "We're here! We're queer! Get use to it!"

There are documented cases of the descendants of slave owners, who continued to keep slaves well into the1950s, so no it's not something that happened a long, long time ago that "they" just need to get over it.

R19 show proof.

So Android marketing types are on DL now?

Pretty much everyone I know my age has an iPhone. And a Macbook.

None of them live in their parents basement either.

[quote]Is celebrating Juneteenth a recent thing? I'm 34, but I don't remember it every being a thing until recently. It even showed up this year on my iCal list of American holidays?

That's a good question and the answer is "no." But, if the "powers that be" control the power and education, they also control what will be taught to the masses too. So, what you have now, are many people of all races and genders looking back and reclaiming their history. But, Juneteenth has always had a celebration somewhere in the nation.

[Quote][R19] show proof.

Take your head out of the sand, r20.

R21 how old are you? It's Mix. The Apple nerds don't know how to use technology and are bad lays.

Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma “Black Wall Street” (May 31 – June 1, 1921)

During the oil boom of the 1910s, the area of northeast Oklahoma around Tulsa flourished, including the Greenwood neighborhood, which came to be known as “the Black Wall Street.” The area was home to several lawyers, realtors, doctors, and prominent black Businessmen, many of them multimillionaires.

Greenwood boasted a variety of thriving businesses such as grocery stores, clothing stores, barbershops, banks, hotels, cafes, movie theaters, two newspapers, and many contemporary homes. Greenwood residents enjoyed many luxuries that their white neighbors did not, including indoor plumbing and a remarkable school system. The dollar circulated 36 to 100 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community.

The neighborhood was destroyed during a riot that broke out after a group of men from Greenwood attempted to protect a young Black man from a lynch mob. On the night of May 31, 1921, a mob called for the lynching of Dick Rowland, a Black man who shined shoes, after reports spread that on the previous day he had assaulted Sarah Page, a white woman, in the elevator she operated in a downtown building.

In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, Black Tulsa was looted, firebombed from the air and burned down by white rioters. The governor declared martial law, and National Guard troops arrived in Tulsa. Guardsmen assisted firemen in putting out fires, removed abducted African-Americans from the hands of white vigilantes, and imprisoned all Black Tulsans, not already confined, into a prison camp at the Convention Hall and the Fairgrounds, some for as long as eight days.

In the wake of the violence, 35 city blocks lay in charred ruins, over 800 people were treated for injuries and estimated 300 deaths occurred.

Rosewood Massacre (1923)

Rosewood was a quiet, self-sufficient whistle-stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Florida. By 1900 the population in Rosewood had become predominantly African-American. Some people farmed or worked in local businesses, including a sawmill in nearby Sumner, a predominantly white town.

In 1920, Rosewood Blacks had three churches, a school, a large Masonic Hall, turpentine mill, a sugarcane mill, a baseball team and a general store (a second one was white-owned). The village had about two dozen plank two-story homes, some other small houses, as well as several small unoccupied plank structures.

Spurred by unsupported accusations that a white woman in Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a Black drifter, white men from a number of nearby towns lynched a Rosewood resident. When the Black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred whites combed the countryside hunting Black people and burning almost every structure in Rosewood.

Survivors hid for several days in nearby swamps and were evacuated by train and car to larger towns. Although state and local authorities were aware of the violence, they made no arrests for the activities in Rosewood. At least six Blacks and two whites were killed, and the town was abandoned by Black residents during the attacks. None ever returned.

When California tried to ban black people.

Inform yourselves about it.

my dad was born on that day. his friends alwys ribbed him about it....