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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA app Daily with

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Speaker 1: Me Your Girl. Danielle Moody prerecording from the Bunker, Folks,

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Speaker 1: I this episode is going to be about Juneteenth. I

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Speaker 1: have mixed feelings about Juneteenth, hence my hesitancy as I

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Speaker 1: was getting ready to announce it. I don't have mixed

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Speaker 1: feelings about Juneteenth being celebrated. I have feelings about how

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Speaker 1: Juneteenth is being co opted and commodified, and that especially

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Speaker 1: at a time when we have an entire cult republican

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Speaker 1: radicalized domestic terrorist party working over time to ensure that

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Speaker 1: nothing that is taught in K three twelve education has

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Speaker 1: even a hint of perspective outside of white supremacy and patriarchy.

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Speaker 1: And that I believe that the Juneteenth holiday came about

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Speaker 1: as a pacifier right to all of the other things

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Speaker 1: that black people in this country have been asking for

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Speaker 1: four centuries. Right When I think about Juneteenth, when I

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Speaker 1: think about the way in which Juneteenth has been talked

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Speaker 1: about and the backlash that has been received, and it

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Speaker 1: pisses me off. It pisses me off. Juneteenth is a

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Speaker 1: celebration of freedom and liberation, but it is also a

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Speaker 1: reminder a deep reminder of the insidious nature of white supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah slighting lies, economic extraction, abuse of black people. Juneteenth

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Speaker 1: came about because it would be two years following the

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Speaker 1: end of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation that

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Speaker 1: enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas would learn that they were

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Speaker 1: now free. I'm certain that the white, vicious terrorists that

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Speaker 1: were owning human beings knew that they were to be freed,

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Speaker 1: but decided that they hadn't gotten enough free labor, They

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Speaker 1: hadn't caused enough trauma, abuse, harm, violence, right, just needed

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Speaker 1: two more years. This country makes me sick because every

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Speaker 1: time that people are forced into the streets to declare

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Speaker 1: the relevance of their own lives, that our lives actually matter,

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Speaker 1: and that no lives, all lives can't matter until black

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Speaker 1: lives actually matter, that we are still saying the same

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Speaker 1: things that our ancestors said, still fighting for the same

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Speaker 1: things that white, lying ass politicians and this lying ass

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Speaker 1: federal government, regardless of which party is in charge, have

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Speaker 1: denied Black people their full humanity. Because here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Juneteenth became a federal holiday following the racial uprisings of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty when we all watch collectively George Floyd take

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Speaker 1: his last breath at the hands of the murdering X

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Speaker 1: cop Derek Chauvin. For close to nine minutes, we watched

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Speaker 1: a black man killed like a dog in the fucking street.

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Speaker 1: Then we waited with bated breath through a trial to

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Speaker 1: see if maybe this time someone is going to be

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Speaker 1: held accountable for what the world witnessed in fucking Hora.

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Speaker 1: We asked for a police reform, We asked for an

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Speaker 1: end to qualified immunity. We asked for accountability of this

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Speaker 1: state funded, fucking mob to be able to be charged

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Speaker 1: and held criminally responsible for the damage and harm and

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Speaker 1: death and destruction they cause. Eight months into bullshit negotiations

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Speaker 1: between Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans, they come out, throw

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Speaker 1: up their hands and say, oh, we couldn't come to

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Speaker 1: an agreement, so we'll just continue with the status quo,

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Speaker 1: which is that black lives don't actually matter and never have.

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Speaker 1: They're only useful as tools to our ends, but outside

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Speaker 1: of that, you're deserving of nothing. So then they turn

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Speaker 1: around and they say, oh, well, here's Juneteenth off for everybody,

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Speaker 1: including the white fucking racist, including the ancestors of those

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Speaker 1: that kept us in shackles, that tortured, raped, sold our children,

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Speaker 1: and then turn around and want to say that, oh,

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Speaker 1: black people don't know anything about family, a nuclear family.

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Speaker 1: Give me a break. How do you make a federal

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Speaker 1: holiday and then don't create any curriculum around that holiday?

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Speaker 1: Juneteenth was only celebrated in a handful of places, Texas, Washington, DC,

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Speaker 1: where I used to live, being one of them, two

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Speaker 1: of them. I hadn't heard about Juneteenth until I moved

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Speaker 1: to the Washington DC DMV area for college. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine the amount and the lengths that this white supremist

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Speaker 1: country has gone to to hide their abuses, to hide

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Speaker 1: their terrorism, to distort reality, to paint this picture of

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Speaker 1: white exceptionalism, knowing that there is nothing exceptional about whiteness

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Speaker 1: outside of the exceptional way with which they reeled brutality

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Speaker 1: and harm. So then as people are forced out into

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Speaker 1: the streets out a hide of a pandemic before we

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Speaker 1: have vaccines, before we even really know what we are

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Speaker 1: dealing at with. Oh, the federal government says we're gonna

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Speaker 1: make Juneteenth a federal holiday that'll show black people we

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Speaker 1: care about them. I don't need your fucking holidays that

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Speaker 1: everybody gets off and doesn't know dick about. I don't

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Speaker 1: need Maya Angelou's face embassiled on a coin. I don't

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Speaker 1: even need Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill that

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Speaker 1: we will never see. What I need is equity. What

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Speaker 1: I need is justice. What I actually need and wants

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Speaker 1: fucking reparations, not Juneteenth ice cream or T shirts, just

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Speaker 1: another way to capitalize on the money that black people

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Speaker 1: put out into our economy to support it. We spend

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Speaker 1: more money than most other communities and get nothing back

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Speaker 1: from these very same corporations that want to now turn

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Speaker 1: their websites from half Rainbow to half kenttie cloth. And

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Speaker 1: that's supposed to be showing some type of allyship and solidarity.

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Speaker 1: Miss me with it. So as I'm seeing people from

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Speaker 1: Nike to Walmart giving employees a day off or saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're going to do a day of service, or let

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Speaker 1: us give some wayward black community a couple of thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: patting themselves on the back for fucking what. The amount

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Speaker 1: that black people are owed in this country is obscene.

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Speaker 1: We have had HR forty introduced every year, and I

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Speaker 1: want to pull it up for you because people don't

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Speaker 1: know this. Why because it's never happened. It's never, ever, ever,

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Speaker 1: ever happened. HR forty has been introduced multiple multiple times.

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Speaker 1: The bill seeks to establish the Commission to Study and

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Speaker 1: develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. The Commission shall examine

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Speaker 1: slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States

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Speaker 1: from sixteen nineteen to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.

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Speaker 1: It's never passed, it's never passed. We've had no such commission,

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Speaker 1: We've had no such investigation. We haven't even had so

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Speaker 1: much as a fucking apology, really, right, a recognition of

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Speaker 1: harm that has been done. Folks will say, oh, but

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Speaker 1: you know, don't you remember when the House, you know,

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Speaker 1: under Nancy Pelosi said that they were sorry about slavery,

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Speaker 1: and then was that when they put the kenty cloth

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Speaker 1: around them and all got down on one knee. I

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Speaker 1: tell you that what makes me sick, so sick about

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Speaker 1: America is we don't want to do anything. We don't

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Speaker 1: want change, not America as a whole, and certainly not

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Speaker 1: white America. And I'm going to say it as a whole.

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Speaker 1: I'm not part in parceling. So if I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about you, then I'm not talking about you. But you see,

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Speaker 1: things get done in this country when White America demands it.

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Speaker 1: So if there are so many good, thoughtful, caring, empathetic allies,

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Speaker 1: then where are their voices around demanding reparations for the

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Speaker 1: Black community, for a community that has faced so much.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. You want to talk about excellence. Every day

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Speaker 1: I find myself in awe of Black people in this

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Speaker 1: when I think, folks about all of these things, it's

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Speaker 1: what happening again. It is exhausting living in a country

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Speaker 1: fact that racism is embedded in every Fabrican, in every

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Speaker 1: up and celebrate Juneteenth being named a federal holiday in

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Speaker 1: just recently acknowledges the fact that the Tulsa massacre that

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Speaker 1: Those people never received anything other than a mass fucking grave.

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Speaker 1: So you should be applauded for acknowledging that. You should

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Speaker 1: be applauded for the fact that we know. Why has

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Speaker 1: cancer research and other research been able to happen. Oh,

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Speaker 1: because the healthcare system stole cells from a black woman,

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Speaker 1: Henriette A. Lacks made multi billions off of it while

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Speaker 1: been stolen from that she had no bodily autonomy, that

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Speaker 1: her cells, her body, her pieces had been commodified. We

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Speaker 1: only learned about that through a book and research that

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Speaker 1: was done. Still, her family has received nothing. But I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be happy with a holiday. I've been talking

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Speaker 1: for a long time about really considering leaving this country.

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Speaker 1: In the next couple of years. My sister is returning

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Speaker 1: now that she's returning, we are actually wondering if it's

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Speaker 1: it isn't. We know that. But how do you flee

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Speaker 1: everything that you know? And where do you go that

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Speaker 1: because otherwise I wouldn't be here. It's why I love

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Speaker 1: This is the piece that is in the Daily Beast

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Speaker 1: It's not a priority skip Corporate Juneteenth branding invest in

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Speaker 1: enslaved African Americans were notified about their emancipation following the

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Speaker 1: So how does this occasion call for Juneteenth ice cream

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Speaker 1: The Juneteenth Federal Holiday was announced at the very same

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Speaker 1: for corporations to commodify the Juneteenth Holiday extracting once again

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Speaker 1: The real bottom line, corporate America needs to find more

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Speaker 1: Black community has always needed is the resources that were

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Speaker 1: to be reinvested in, not as charity, but as reparations

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Speaker 1: racist redlining and disinvestment. But this doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: our curse forever. If Corporate America wants to celebrate Juneteenth,

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Speaker 1: more companies to do what Sapphora did and devote physical

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Speaker 1: There are a myriad of ways that corporate America can

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Speaker 1: When will it end? When white people have decided that

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Speaker 1: those who have been wronged and continue to be historically

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