Happy Juneteenth!

I saw a tweet that said "Juneteenth is a leisure day for Black folks. A reparations day for all others. Spread the word." by TheNapMinistry.

Yesterday I donated all the client payments I took in (coincidentally from BIPOC) to the Black Resilience Fund.

From sheafrotherdon Resources and giving opportunities for Juneteenth and also from celli Resources compiled from a twitter query.

What really happened on Juneteenth — and why it’s time for supremacists and their sympathizers to surrender by Robin Washington.

“We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” Felix Haywood, who was enslaved in Texas, is recorded as saying in an account by historian Gregory P. Downs.

Haywood was in no way an anomaly, but representative of the majority of the enslaved populace, Downs asserts. He further quotes Haywood saying, “We all felt like heroes and nobody had made us that way but ourselves.”

If Galveston’s Blacks already knew they were free, obviously so too did their slaveholders, who nonetheless kept them in bondage — not by cunning or deceit or ignorance, but by the brute force and tactics of dehumanizing torture they had been using for 200 years.

I'm leaving in what I posted earlier as an example of the myth that we usually hear.

Black Resilience Fund (mythical) info on Juneteenth:( myth )