{"id":5140,"date":"2020-06-19T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:52:42","slug":"finally-celebrating-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2020\/06\/19\/finally-celebrating-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally celebrating Juneteenth!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s no accident that:
You learned about Helen Keller instead of W.E.B. DuBois.
You learned about the Watts and L.A. Riots, but not the Tulsa or Wilmington massacres.
You learned that George Washington\u2019s dentures were made from wood, rather than the teeth from slaves.
You learned about black ghettos, but not about Black Wall Street.
You learned about the New Deal, but not \u201cred lining.\u201d
You learned about Tommie Smith\u2019s fist in the air at the 1968 Olympics, but not that he was sent home the next day and stripped of his medals.
You learned about \u201cblack crime,\u201d but white criminals were never lumped together and discussed in terms of their race.
You learned about \u201cstates rights\u201d as the cause of the Civil War, but not that slavery was mentioned 80 times in the articles of secession.
Privilege is having history rewritten so that you don\u2019t have to acknowledge uncomfortable facts.
Racism is perpetuated by people who refuse to learn or acknowledge this reality.
You have a choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no accident that:You learned about Helen Keller instead of W.E.B. DuBois.You learned about the Watts and L.A. Riots, but not the Tulsa or Wilmington massacres.You learned that George Washington\u2019s dentures were made from wood, rather than the teeth from slaves.You learned about black ghettos, but not about Black Wall Street.You learned about the New … <\/p>\n

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