mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
How does a kid in grade school do this?
Trump Says He Made “Juneteenth” Famous
- Thread starter BK The Great
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We have a Juneteenth celebration every year here in SA.
I've heard of Juneteenth before this year. However, it's not something that is "big" here in NYC...at least not where I live.
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
You are right it not big here in NYC at all.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
My family (and friends’ families) taught me way more stuff than any non collegiate class ever did. My grandma and aunt used to buy me black (history) books, grandma made me watch stuff like eyes on the prize and roots, my brother bought me a black history board game called Identity, had a black parent of a classmate who felt our school needed a black history curriculum and taught one for 10 weeks to my 4th or 5th grade class. Adults need to be active and know what isn’t being shared with their kids, especially black kids, and fill in the gaps. And yes, adults who don’t know this stuff need to start being more curious themselves. The internet, streaming services and YouTube have absolutely everything you’d ever want to find re: black history in video form, Amazon and goodreads make it easier than ever to find books. At this point, if you/your fam are lacking knowledge of self it’s on you.How does a kid in grade school do this?
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DonKnock
KPJ Gonna Save Us
This is like when Kanye said he made Taylor Swift famous — by interrupting her in the middle of a speech on a nationally televised award show
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Your earlier post made it seem like it was our fault for not learning this stuff as kids.
And my parents are nigerian, so teaching African American history wasn’t on their minds.
Oakland is a different beast because that’s an area that is steeped in black history and revolution. Other areas aren’t.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Juneteenth is really big in Texas. Most of my friends who live in Texas talk about celebrations.
Craziness...lol. Thanks for giving Africans freedom, Donald. Now where is that time machine? I need that..
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
I wouldn’t expect African parents/families to teach this, but there are other posters in here who are AA and don’t know this stuff, that’s who I’m talking to. And I do think it’s people faults, at 13+ you’re old enough to satisfy your own curiosity, I did more reading and research as a teen and college student and most recently last fall. I’ve always been curious to know more about my culture given not much of it was taught.
And I’m not sure what US history book people had, but Juneteenth was mentioned in mine - it was only a one sentence note, but it was there nonetheless as part of the emancipation proclamation, they mentioned slaves in Texas were the last to be freed two years later.
lastly, I’d expect black cities like DC and NY to have celebrations for it, even SF had a annual Juneteenth celebration and it was never as black as Oakland was even back in the day.
I think it’s largely regional. I’m from Tennessee and I’ve heard of Juneteenth but it’s never been really big thing in my experience. A lot black folks from Cali have roots in Texas so that explains how it’s bigger on the west coast.
Theodoresolderbreh
No Shorts No Malarkey
trump's death gonna be a holiday in my household. his heart got like 3 years on it max if he keep his mcdonald's diet up
Yup. My mom used to make us do a black history essay every year. Made us read many things about black history. (This started before computers so we had to hand write them and had to go to the public library for books)
When I’m hearing all this talk about Juneteenth the last few days I’m like
But Whatever.
who’s coli pawg out here reppin for Juneteenth!?
