Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡
Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.
Texas should look like Kid's hair. But it looks like Play's hair. Because Texas wanted to hold onto that racism just a little bit longer.
The Alamo was also a fight to preserve Texas's right to keep slavery going. They lost.
You can't just keep lying and changing how history is taught to hide the shamefulness of racism. If you want to be remembered as the good guys, maybe try being the good guys!
Otherwise, you'll just be embarrassed when your kids and grand kids learn the truth about you.
@mekkaokereke Born and bred Texan here. I learned about this as an adult. They never taught me any of this in school.
Of course, I grew up in an age when the n-word was casually used. I think I was around 10 or so before I finally realized how awful it was.
That's how ingrained this stuff was in the 70s. Not sure it's much better today, but I certainly hope so.
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Grew up in Sugar Land, you can be sure we never heard about this kind of stuff :
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sugar-land-slave-convict-labor-history/
There were 7 blocks total in First Colony when we moved there.
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