Speaker 1: And now watching my mic back, you're like that.
Speaker 2: Strikes with waters from headquarters behind him.
Speaker 1: And now if you're just tuning in the civic side
Speaker 1: for I'm your host Rams's job, you're sometimes excited in
Speaker 1: colorful co host qwar. Yes, indeed, plea stick around. Uh,
Speaker 1: we got more Juneteenth to discuss. We're talking about how
Speaker 1: to how people profit from Juneteenth and really what that
Speaker 1: feels like, maybe how to be kinder just account for
Speaker 1: the way it might feel the people as you go
Speaker 1: about commercializing that brand new holiday for black people. You know,
Speaker 1: we've asked for a lot from this country and we
Speaker 1: got Juneteenth, and it seems like people are kind of
Speaker 1: going after Juneteenth, which is fine, which is good. It's goods,
Speaker 1: it's good, it's good. We want that. But know we
Speaker 1: have to have conversations about how it feels so that
Speaker 1: we help you and that you help us and we
Speaker 1: all learn and grow together. That's the point. We're also
Speaker 1: going to give you a little bit of history on
Speaker 1: June teen, so stick around for that. But first and foremost,
Speaker 1: let's discuss Ba Ba Ba Ba become a better Ally.
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Speaker 1: pay attention to. All right, back to Juneteenth. So let's
Speaker 1: start this off with another article. This one comes from
Speaker 1: ad Week, And before we read this, I want to say,
Speaker 1: we have our feelings here on this show. Other people
Speaker 1: have their feelings. We feel like we're right. Otherwise we
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that. If we don't feel like we're right,
Speaker 1: we just have an opinion. We'll say it's just an opinion,
Speaker 1: but we feel like we're right. That doesn't make us right, Okay,
Speaker 1: But we do feel like with a platform like this
Speaker 1: that we have to be very careful about how we
Speaker 1: share information and how we empower you with we'll call
Speaker 1: it instruction how to approach black culture, the traumas experienced
Speaker 1: by black people in the black community, and you know politics.
Speaker 1: Of course, we talk about politics on the show quite
Speaker 1: a bit, and just how to be better allies to
Speaker 1: each other. I know that's a segment on the show,
Speaker 1: but the whole show is an attempt to create better allies. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're going to say what we believe is true.
Speaker 1: But first we're going to read an article to kind
Speaker 1: of frame how some people feel. Shall we we shall
Speaker 1: all right? This again comes from Adweek. Dear marketers, don't
Speaker 1: profit from Juneteenth, avoid cultural blunders like Walmart's June teenth
Speaker 1: ice cream, and learn how to celebrate appropriately. All right,
Speaker 1: let me read this. It was only a year ago
Speaker 1: that President Joe Biden signed legislation to establish Juneteenth June
Speaker 1: nineteenth as a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery,
Speaker 1: and in the span of one year, didn't take long
Speaker 1: for some brands to see Juneteenth as a way to
Speaker 1: make money. Dollar Tree began selling head wraps and a
Speaker 1: host of June teen party supplies. Social media backlash was swift,
Speaker 1: letting the retailer know that they used to that they
Speaker 1: also use the wrong colors. The official colors of the
Speaker 1: June teen flag are red, white, and blue. Dollar Tree
Speaker 1: quietly removed all its social media posts, never issuing apology.
Speaker 1: Walmart's Celebration edition Juneteenth ice cream, along with Jueteenth themed
Speaker 1: party supplies, also sparked huge social media backlash. The label
Speaker 1: on the red velvet flavored ice cream red share and
Speaker 1: celebrate African American culture, emancipation and enduring hope. I want
Speaker 1: to make an edit here. The official colors of the
Speaker 1: June teen flag are red, white, and blue. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's right ad Week, because I have never
Speaker 1: seen no blue, nor have I seen right white. I've
Speaker 1: seen red, orange, and green, black, I've seen all those colors.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now, as we mentioned, profiting from Juneteenth, it
Speaker 1: comes with the territory. Other people celebrating June teenth with us,
Speaker 1: it comes with the territory. This is what we want.
Speaker 1: You may find on some corner of the internet some
Speaker 1: people saying all kinds of nonsense that Juneteenth is only
Speaker 1: for black folks, or that you know, people shouldn't make
Speaker 1: money off of Juneteenth, or whatever the case is. Again,
Speaker 1: our truth is not that we do believe that it
Speaker 1: should be approachable, but there's also something to remember while
Speaker 1: you're approaching the holiday. And we didn't get to touch
Speaker 1: on this the first half of the show, and I
Speaker 1: want to make a correction too. I did see another
Speaker 1: Juneteenth flag just now by our producer Maggie B Knowing,
Speaker 1: and I remember that one that actually is red, white
Speaker 1: and blue. So sure, so there's two flags, I guess. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if you do exploit Juneteenth fiscally, especially, I would ask
Speaker 1: that you keep in mind that there is a particular
Speaker 1: sensitivity of the people that you're approaching. Right. We are
Speaker 1: people who have been hurt a lot by this country,
Speaker 1: by our local representatives, local politicians. We've been hurt a
Speaker 1: lot by our countrymen, just neighbors in our neighborhoods or
Speaker 1: across town. We've been hurt by these people. Of course,
Speaker 1: we've been hurt by corporations. Right. We've, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: oftentimes been last to be considered in terms of how
Speaker 1: things might feel, how things might impact us. And that's
Speaker 1: if we've been considered at all. Usually we and a
Speaker 1: lot of times in this history, we haven't even entered
Speaker 1: into the conversation. It's just like, well, whatever happens to
Speaker 1: them happens, but you know, it's not even worth a conversation.
Speaker 1: And so when you're approaching a holiday like Juneteenth, it
Speaker 1: can feel a bit more. That doesn't feel good, you know,
Speaker 1: to black folks, it can feel like, ah, that's not
Speaker 1: really I don't know if that's performative or if you
Speaker 1: really mean that. Because of the history, you know, because
Speaker 1: We've been through so many we'll call them traumas in
Speaker 1: our time in this country. So it oftentimes takes a
Speaker 1: long time for us to verify something as being authentic.
Speaker 1: It oftentimes takes a long time for us to warm
Speaker 1: up to people taking things and changing them to suit
Speaker 1: their interest or their narrative. Takes a long time for
Speaker 1: us to warm up to the idea that someone is
Speaker 1: making money off of something that they didn't really have
Speaker 1: to go through. You know, these things feel a little
Speaker 1: different for us, Like we all get taken advantage of
Speaker 1: being a human being in live long enough, someone will
Speaker 1: take advantage of you. But if you're a black person
Speaker 1: in this country and a white person, you feel like
Speaker 1: a white person takes advantage of you. That feels a
Speaker 1: little different. There are people like, oh, you shouldn't play
Speaker 1: the race card. You shouldn't play the race card. It's
Speaker 1: almost like, how else do you explain it after centuries
Speaker 1: knowing that that's been the truth, that's the foundation of
Speaker 1: really everything you know on this and around here. We
Speaker 1: believe that white supremacist institutions still very much govern our
Speaker 1: day to day lives, not just ours, me and Q
Speaker 1: and Maggie, but all of us. Even if you're a
Speaker 1: white person living a very white life, supremacy governs your
Speaker 1: life as well. We believe that. Actually we have documentation
Speaker 1: to support it. We talk about it all the time
Speaker 1: on the show, and anytime you want to have that
Speaker 1: sidebar conversation with me, at least I certainly have it
Speaker 1: with you. But we also recognize that if we understand
Speaker 1: the predicament that we're in, the circumstances that we're in,
Speaker 1: and we can agree on a path forward, that we
Speaker 1: can start to fix things. At least on this one show,
Speaker 1: we can. I'm always going to be hope cute see
Speaker 1: QBS rolling his eyes at me again, but we can.
Speaker 1: You know, we're doing our part the best we know
Speaker 1: how to try to move forward. And so there is
Speaker 1: a certain duality that is kind of built into our experience,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And you might be noticing
Speaker 1: that on the other end of Juneteenth. You might notice
Speaker 1: that in this show. On the way one hand, we're saying,
Speaker 1: look at these people taking advantage of June tenth, and
Speaker 1: on the other hand, we're saying, please celebrate Juneteenth with us.
Speaker 1: And this is the duality I'm speaking to, because it
Speaker 1: very much is a function of, Hey, we do want
Speaker 1: the brotherhood, but we've been a little hurt in the
Speaker 1: past and we don't want to feel taken advantage of.
Speaker 1: And I think the word feel is very important, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And in order for you to
Speaker 1: kind of help frame it in the right way, if
Speaker 1: you ask yourself, is what you're doing performative? You're just
Speaker 1: putting on a show because it's that time of year
Speaker 1: and you guys need to get some money on your
Speaker 1: corporate bottom line, if you work for a big company
Speaker 1: and you're high up, or if you're you know, do
Speaker 1: really fight this fight with us through the year. Do
Speaker 1: you cry with us when we see these black men
Speaker 1: and women losing their lives at the hands of police.
Speaker 1: Is that really something that moves you? Or do you
Speaker 1: blame the victim and side with the police and then
Speaker 1: on Juneteenth say, well, I got the day off, so
Speaker 1: you know, let me put a post up, you know,
Speaker 1: on my social you know what I mean. So those
Speaker 1: are the things that you know, authenticity really helps us
Speaker 1: as as black people as we are healing from four
Speaker 1: hundred years of trauma. This is I think what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say here now. I don't want to keep
Speaker 1: talking because your eyes are saying I got a lot
Speaker 1: to offer this, So go ahead, you you got something
Speaker 1: to get off.
Speaker 3: It's just it's very complicated, Right, there's a lot of context.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of nuance that must be discussed because
Speaker 3: it is impossible to separate exploitation from capitalism.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: We'd feel much better if someone that looked like us
Speaker 3: trademark Juneteenth. Right, But the way that this society works,
Speaker 3: someone was going to I'm sad that we hadn't already.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't have required for it to become a national
Speaker 3: holiday for someone that looks like us, like us to
Speaker 3: have thought that we should own that. But then that
Speaker 3: presents its own set of interesting circumstances. If Ramsy's job
Speaker 3: owned the Juneteenth trademark, I'm sure someone would find issue
Speaker 3: with that. Yeah, who are you to own juneteenth?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: So there's this space that we're in, Like you said
Speaker 3: as a Kesh twenty two, there's no right answer, there's
Speaker 3: no outcome that makes everybody happy. The conflation of Juneteenth
Speaker 3: and pan Africanism. Right, we thought ten minutes ago the
Speaker 3: June teen flag was red, black and green.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the more popular one that I've seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not that's just pan Africanism thrown on
Speaker 3: an American flag. The Juneteenth flag, as Maggie showed us.
Speaker 4: Is red, white and blue, a very very American holiday
Speaker 4: because American slaves were emancipated, became in theory, freed American people,
Speaker 4: and we've had to live here as Americans.
Speaker 3: Right, we have to put African American on the front
Speaker 3: of it. But Irish Americans do not have to identify
Speaker 3: as Irish Americans or any other of the list of
Speaker 3: European countries that are also immigrants.
Speaker 1: In this on this land. They just get to be American.
Speaker 3: We have to self identify as different because they've done
Speaker 3: four hundred years of reminding us that you guys are
Speaker 3: not us. And as you said, that comes with a
Speaker 3: trauma that makes everything hurt. When a person that's not
Speaker 3: black is waving a Juneteenth flag, we have to ask,
Speaker 3: maybe not even out loud, is that person celebrating us
Speaker 3: or making fun of us, or exploiting us or performing
Speaker 3: Like you said before, this is a space that we
Speaker 3: live in, you know, being black in this country, man,
Speaker 3: it is mentally and emotionally exhausted. We somehow find a
Speaker 3: way to turn up anyway, Yeah, to barbecue anyway, to
Speaker 3: party anyway, to celebrate anyway, or anyhow. As our ancestors
Speaker 3: any Yeah, you know what I mean. Our life's experience
Speaker 3: is traumatic always. I still get uncomfortable every time a
Speaker 3: police car is behind me one hundred percent of the time.
Speaker 1: That's the experience when you look like us in this
Speaker 1: kind of listen. I get uncomfortable when I'm at a store.
Speaker 1: I'm forty years old. I could buy whatever I want
Speaker 1: in the store. I uncomfortable with a store when somebody's
Speaker 1: looking at me, or when I walk out the store
Speaker 1: and I didn't buy nothing. Oh god, I know for
Speaker 1: a fact they're like, oh man, what are you coming here?
Speaker 1: And what you got in bot? And I'm not a thief,
Speaker 1: I nerd, But I know what you mean.
Speaker 3: Our shared experience on this land, and even in moments
Speaker 3: and spaces where we're celebrating, we still have to ask
Speaker 3: these very uncomfortable questions. But I challenged us, I challenged
Speaker 3: the group that we spoke to. We can't have it
Speaker 3: both ways, man. We cannot say, hey, everyone, come celebrate
Speaker 3: this with us, and then have this insane level of
Speaker 3: scrutiny on every decision they make. A lot of people
Speaker 3: are going to make some wrong decisions good spirit. And
Speaker 3: some people, as you know, are going to make some
Speaker 3: awful decisions because they're awful. We know that historically, we
Speaker 3: know that as fact. But some people are really just
Speaker 3: trying to meet us where we are. We're really just
Speaker 3: trying to get on board and be down with us.
Speaker 3: And there's no way that this holiday is going to
Speaker 3: become a national, federal, widespread celebration and people who don't
Speaker 3: look like us don't celebrate it, don't celebrate it, and
Speaker 3: don't profit from it. Every one of these companies that
Speaker 3: sells the Saint Patrick's Dey t shirt, I assure you
Speaker 3: do not have Irish owners, not all of them. The
Speaker 3: same with single Demil, the same with the Fourth of July,
Speaker 3: the same. You know, I'm guarantee you that some Taiwan
Speaker 3: selling Fourth of.
Speaker 1: July merch getting all the money from me, right, So
Speaker 1: you know that's that's going to happen.
Speaker 3: It's just watching the expectation happen right in front of you.
Speaker 3: It can't be painful and traumatic, right, But there's going
Speaker 3: to be some people I think that are trying to
Speaker 3: do that, are trying to do the right thing, They're
Speaker 3: going to miss.
Speaker 1: That, and that's what I want to I want to
Speaker 1: mention that. So two, there's a group of people in
Speaker 1: this country. I believe them to be mostly white folks
Speaker 1: who have kind energy and they really want to be
Speaker 1: the best brothers and sisters that they can to their
Speaker 1: African American brothers and sisters. They want to do the
Speaker 1: best that they can. And to you, if you are
Speaker 1: from this group, I say thank you, I love you.
Speaker 1: You are going to be the bridge that kind of
Speaker 1: helps us to find out how we can be comfortable
Speaker 1: find where the line is. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I can't define that line for everyone. I can't define
Speaker 1: that line for the culture. But I feel like with
Speaker 1: this microphone in front of my face, I can say
Speaker 1: that in my travels and the people that I know,
Speaker 1: you know that there's we want that we want that Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely wouldn't want to just be treated fairly and fair
Speaker 1: is as you mentioned, the same way they do for
Speaker 1: it to July and all the other holidays. So to
Speaker 1: you people who are like the first movers, who are
Speaker 1: the early adopters, who are the ones who are just
Speaker 1: as excited that Juneteenth was a holiday, or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the first year it didn't make its way to you,
Speaker 1: but this this year was you know, you're here and
Speaker 1: you wanted to get out there and do something, or
Speaker 1: maybe you're even the sort of person that was like
Speaker 1: apprehensive to make a big deal out of it because
Speaker 1: you didn't know how to That consideration matters. The fact
Speaker 1: that you would take a moment and say I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I should do that, and you're waiting to hear
Speaker 1: me say this to you right now on your radio
Speaker 1: station or you know, if you're listening on the podcast
Speaker 1: or whatever, to say it's okay to celebrate with us.
Speaker 1: You know, you having that being deliberate in your movements,
Speaker 1: being kind, being measured, that matters. I do want to
Speaker 1: say something else too. I want to shout out to Maggie,
Speaker 1: our producer, because she's the one that gave me that
Speaker 1: word performative that you mentioned earlier, because she don't play
Speaker 1: that these companies doing performative stuff, so make sure Credit
Speaker 1: Wars do. And she's also the one that pointed out
Speaker 1: that there's two June teen flags, which I knew. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I didn't think of it anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: there's one June teen flags and the more recent one
Speaker 1: that made the point out of you.
Speaker 3: And then, like I said, there's Pan Africanism, the the
Speaker 3: one that I may put on an American flag, right.
Speaker 1: And that's the one that people are taking issue with
Speaker 1: and the other news articles saying that they didn't like it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yoh, it's the same as the Blue
Speaker 1: Lives Matter flags with another set of colors. Anyway, moving on,
Speaker 1: I wanted to read this as well, So here's some
Speaker 1: things to keep in mind. Companies, brands, and individuals need
Speaker 1: to understand why something is that it may be considered
Speaker 1: performative or disrespectful. All right. For people on a journey
Speaker 1: to be an ally to the black community, it's important
Speaker 1: to understand the why when brands go viral for the
Speaker 1: harm they've caused. It's too easy to scroll by and
Speaker 1: move on to the next headline. We must take a
Speaker 1: moment to educate ourselves on perspective and lived experiences that
Speaker 1: are not our own, right, that's all of us, right,
Speaker 1: So you understand, you know, performative versus performative and disrespectful.
Speaker 1: Neither one of those are good. Again, performative is just
Speaker 1: you kind of putting on a show. Disrespectful is just
Speaker 1: like intentional, you know, intentionally trying to hurt someone. Not
Speaker 1: always intentional, right, but well yeah, that's fair. You can
Speaker 1: be disrespect will not be intentional. But hopefully you understand
Speaker 1: the word disrespectful. And we don't need to I don't
Speaker 1: need to explain it to you any further. All right,
Speaker 1: This one says, understand how this happened. By understanding how
Speaker 1: this might have happened, marketers can review how they are
Speaker 1: leading their own teams. It doesn't matter how many people
Speaker 1: are involved. None of the people has a personal connection
Speaker 1: to the cultural significance of the event. So you know,
Speaker 1: chat with your friends, talk to some folks in your community.
Speaker 1: If you don't have any friends or folks in your community,
Speaker 1: plug into social media. Follow civic cipher. Maggie runs our
Speaker 1: social media. She posts lots of cool stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you can find a community there people that
Speaker 1: follow and subscribe to that feed. But build a community
Speaker 1: of your own. Find out how people are dealing with
Speaker 1: these sorts of things. Understand how to celebrate and honor appropriately.
Speaker 1: To celebrate an honor juneityap appropriately, budget matters to ensure
Speaker 1: this isn't a performative act or a way a company
Speaker 1: to wait for a company to generate profit off the holiday.
Speaker 1: You can donate to a nonprofit like the ACLU, the NAACP,
Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Innocence Project. I'll
Speaker 1: also mention that you can donate to Civic Cipher because
Speaker 1: we are growing with your support and your donations, and
Speaker 1: I'm always going to mention it whenever i can. The
Speaker 1: Equal Justice Initiative by Brian Stevenson. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of that guy, So you can always donate there as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's not always extended because we feel like these
Speaker 3: missteps in.
Speaker 1: Areas where there's disrespect, we feel like it's obvious.
Speaker 3: I think the one thing that you've made it your
Speaker 3: personal mission to make true about this space in particular,
Speaker 3: is that space and that bridge for reconciliation, for forgiveness
Speaker 3: and for moving forward together better. Yeah, because you extend
Speaker 3: this benefit of the doubt, like all the time that
Speaker 3: I'm kind of that just kind of doesn't.
Speaker 1: Work with me.
Speaker 3: However, without that benefit of the doubt, then there's no
Speaker 3: communication for correction you did me wrong, okay, and you
Speaker 3: just dismiss Now, this person can never do it right.
Speaker 3: They can never they can never get into the space
Speaker 3: that we want them to get to because we've made
Speaker 3: up our mind that we're offended. We have not extended
Speaker 3: the benefit of the doubt. We don't communicate any correction.
Speaker 3: That space for reconciliation and healing and improvement doesn't exist
Speaker 3: because we take these things as obvious, just like with Walmart, right,
Speaker 3: instead of telling them how they could have done that better,
Speaker 3: it's like, no, y'all know, y'all was tripping. Maybe they
Speaker 3: didn't maybe right in the spirit of capitalism and that
Speaker 3: automatic explotation that comes with it, they were really trying
Speaker 3: to be in this with us and they just did
Speaker 3: it wrong.
Speaker 1: But we just say you did it wrong, and then
Speaker 1: we move on. You're canceled, dismissed. Go that way. Well,
Speaker 1: the bottom line here is ensure that your representation efforts
Speaker 1: are seen as authentic by your community, the customers, you
Speaker 1: want to serve, your people, your family, et cetera. Now
Speaker 1: it's time for the Way Black History Fact. This is
Speaker 1: sponsored by Hip Hop Icy Magazine, and we are going
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more about juneteenth. So sit back, relax,
Speaker 1: and I will read to you. Juneteenth commemorates an effective
Speaker 1: end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth, which is
Speaker 1: short for June nineteenth, marks the day when federal troops
Speaker 1: arrived in Galveston, Texas in eighteen sixty five to take
Speaker 1: control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people
Speaker 1: be freed. The troops' arrival came a full two and
Speaker 1: a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Speaker 1: Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the United States.
Speaker 1: Is considered the longest running African American holiday. In jun Team,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General
Speaker 1: Roberty Lee had surrendered at Apotomics Courthouse two months earlier
Speaker 1: in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas
Speaker 1: until US General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and
Speaker 1: read General Orders number three. Quote. The people of Texas
Speaker 1: are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the
Speaker 1: Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. End quote.
Speaker 1: The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Lincoln
Speaker 1: on January first, eighteen sixty three, had established that all
Speaker 1: enslaved people in Confederate States and rebellion against the Union quote,
Speaker 1: shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free quote. But in reality,
Speaker 1: the Emancipation Proclamation didn't instantly free any enslaved people. The
Speaker 1: proclamation only applied to places under federal sorry Confederate control,
Speaker 1: and not to slave holding border states or rebel areas
Speaker 1: already under Union control. However, as Northern troops advanced into
Speaker 1: the Confederate South, many enslaved people fled behind Union lines
Speaker 1: Juneteenth and slavery in Texas. In Texas, slavery had continued
Speaker 1: as the state experienced no large scale fighting or significant
Speaker 1: presence of Union troops. Many enslavers from outside the Lone
Speaker 1: Star State had moved there as they viewed it as
Speaker 1: a safe haven for slavery. After the war came to
Speaker 1: a close in the spring of eighteen sixty five, General
Speaker 1: Granger's arrival in Galveston that June signaled freedom for Texas's
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand enslaved people, although emancipation didn't
Speaker 1: happen overnight for everyone. In some cases, in slaver's withheld
Speaker 1: information until after the harvest season, celebrations broke out among
Speaker 1: newly freed black people, and June teenth was born. That December,
Speaker 1: Slavery in America was formally abolished with the adoption of
Speaker 1: the Thirteenth Amendment. The year following eighteen sixty five, Friedman
Speaker 1: in Texas organized the first of what became the annual
Speaker 1: celebration of Jubilee Day on June nineteenth. In the ensuing decades,
Speaker 1: Juneteenth commemorations featured music, barbecues, prayer services, and other activities.
Speaker 1: As black people migrated from Texas to other parts of
Speaker 1: the country, the Juneteenth tradition spread. In nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth and official holiday.
Speaker 1: Several others followed suit over the years. In June twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, Congress passed a resolution establishing Juneteenth that's national holiday.
Speaker 1: President Biden signed it into law June seventeenth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: This comes from history dot Com shout out to Maggie
Speaker 1: be known for no One once again. So it feels
Speaker 1: like we kind of should have led with that, if
Speaker 1: I'm honest. But yeah, that's Juneteenth, and hopefully you understand
Speaker 1: why that's important. Hopefully you understand why there's such a
Speaker 1: fight for critical race theory. You know, my son is fortunate.
Speaker 1: You know, if you listen to the beginning of the show,
Speaker 1: you remember I had a conversation with my son of
Speaker 1: her Father's Day slash June teenth, where I explained to
Speaker 1: him what slaves were and what slavery was and how
Speaker 1: awful it was. And then we proceeded to watch Djangle,
Speaker 1: a Quentin Tarantino movie with blood and guts everywhere, and
Speaker 1: have it articulate those horrors in a way that lived
Speaker 1: a little bit differently, and I was able to kind
Speaker 1: of tell them that those things really happen, and you
Speaker 1: start to understand and appreciate what that journey looks like.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a holiday for Doctor King, and
Speaker 1: that largely commemorates the civil rights movement in that time
Speaker 1: in the country, and obviously he was kind of a
Speaker 1: spearhead for that. I always want to shout out Malcolm
Speaker 1: X in that same breath. It's just kind of a
Speaker 1: thing that I do because I feel like we needed
Speaker 1: both of them at that time. Obviously, Doctor King is
Speaker 1: the one that history remembers in a more in a
Speaker 1: grander fashion. But you know that time is often recalled
Speaker 1: and commemorated and celebrated around Doctor King's birthday, but again
Speaker 1: for June teenth, that is kind of as as I
Speaker 1: just mentioned, the first big step forward in our story
Speaker 1: in this country is becoming really fully treated like how
Speaker 1: we believe that we should be treated.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned before the need for critical race theory.
Speaker 3: I think it's more of a need for actual American history.
Speaker 3: That's that's because they conflated critical race theory into that
Speaker 3: and use that as a catch all scholastic reason to
Speaker 3: get rid of just the very basics of American history.
Speaker 1: So I don't want us to do the same thing.
Speaker 1: I guarantee, if you learn American history, you will want
Speaker 1: to learn critical race theory. Or if your children learn
Speaker 1: critical race or sorry, if your children learn American history,
Speaker 1: they will have a desire to learn critical race theory
Speaker 1: when they get older. So American history is really what
Speaker 1: everyone should know. Critical race theory is what people who
Speaker 1: want to do something about it should know. But again,
Speaker 1: for many of our listeners who might listen to multiple
Speaker 1: media outlets, absolutely the terms have been conflated. I said
Speaker 1: that with the intention of making sure that you know,
Speaker 1: I got everyone's ears to perk up. But thank you
Speaker 1: for clarifying that c because it is important that we
Speaker 1: make that distinction. But yeah, the truth is, we are
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