Happy Juneteenth!
We at The Kennedy Beacon wish everyone a happy Juneteenth! Today marks the 159th anniversary of when 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally liberated.
Some two and a half years earlier, on January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are and henceforth shall be free.”
“Keep going.” ― Harriet Tubman
“Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!” ― Frederick Douglass
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ― Malcolm X
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.” ―Maya Angelou
Glad Kennedy recognizes the real history of this country. So sad that so many act as if denial of the history makes it go away. The liberation from enslavement was monumental for so many people of color and those who supported them. Texas intentionally withheld that information to those enslaved in that State for 2 yrs until the union cavelry showed up and made the public announcement that all those enslaved were now free.
It is quite horrifying that so many white people cannot enjoy the end of one of the most horrific practices against human beings. Celebrating freedom for all people is, or should be neither a left or right political issue but something to be universally shared and supported as a core democratic value.
Its a shame that RFK Jr supports the genocide of Palestinians and not their emancipation.