VIDEO: A Juneteenth Teach-in
Dive into some of the history of slavery and learn ways to celebrate and commemorate emancipation
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For the first time in nearly 40 years we have a new national holiday!
In 2021, Juneteenth became a federal holiday; now we have the opportunity and responsibility to establish healthy patterns and practices for recognizing Juneteenth that will last for generations.
To help us understand the significance of Juneteenth, I conducted this teach-in via YouTube Live.
I talk about:
Why it’s important that Juneteenth is a national holiday
Some risks of making Juneteenth a national holiday
The reality of slavery that makes Juneteenth necessary
The text of General Order No. 3 and its implications
The symbolism behind the Juneteenth flag
Juneteenth as a Black-centered but not Black exclusive holiday
The difference between celebrate vs. commemorate
Watch the video below and let me know what you think!
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Thanks for what you're doing! You asked for feedback on what topics could be discussed in some of your teach-ins. What about something like "Quotes that Give the Game Away". Then discuss quotes like the following and others:
Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo We have successfully frozen their brand-'critical race theory'-into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. 498 Christopher F. Rufo Replying to @realchrisrufo and @Conceptuaames The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. PM 2021 Web App.
Lee Atwater
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.
John Ehrlichman
“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”