06/19/2023
happy to all the beautiful babes out there! 💖💚💙
i wanted to bring out some facts about today & black american history that most people might not know! 🖤✊🏾
💖THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FREE BLACK PEOPLE FROM SLAVERY?
- on jan 1, 1863, the emancipation proclamation went into affect while under lincoln to free black people. well, kind of but definitely not really. it only freed black people in areas of rebellion against the union, the south. this was done not in good faith to free black people but an attempt to f*ck over the confederacy. he personally stated his goal was “neither to save or destroy slavery.” he also said that if he could “save the union without freeing any slave,” he would do it. he did not support black people voting, serving on juries or in*******al marriage. so there’s all of that.
💚THE 13TH AMENDMENT ENDED SLAVERY?
- making something into law doesn’t do much when the people the law is attempting to protect do not have access to the info. in 1860, ≈ 5% of black people could read. therefore, many slave “owners” did not tell black people they were free. hence, the importance of juneteenth.
💙 SO, WHAT IS JUNETEENTH THEN?
- on june 19, 1865, union soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX & informed black people that they were free in terms of the law which sparked a huge celebration. that is what juneteenth celebrates!
💖 DID WHITE PEOPLE FREE BLACK PEOPLE?
- this is false. Harriet Tubman freed 70 slaves on her own before joining the union army where she lead a raid that freed 700+ black people. black people freed black people well before any law selfishly or improperly freed black people.
💖 WHY SHOULD BLACK PEOPLE RECEIVE REPARATIONS?
- yes, this is an actual question people ask. in 1860, 80% of the nation’s gross national product was tied to slavery. we worked without pay. it’s time to repay. johnson even gave poor white people 160 acres of land. so to the white people that think you didn’t receive govt “handouts”, you did. you always have & still do. it’s time to redistribute that wealth to black people who built america.
sources: the amber ruffin show & “white rage” by carol anderson.