Post AWitMSf6ha9SvGNATg by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #AWitMPdDy7rZWYT7cu by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-06-15T11:53:55Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AWitMQhA0ybcp3JmOu by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-06-15T17:57:31Z
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@mekkaokereke More like when the end of slavery was finally enforced in Texas...Eventually there will have to be a discussion (with those in power/leadership in the state) as to why they got "independent" in the first place... as in why they wanted to... đź‘€
(DIR) Post #AWitMSf6ha9SvGNATg by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-06-15T12:05:52Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AWitMVUw9qnbiadaXg by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-06-15T12:27:30Z
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They teach you about the Alamo. But they don't teach you about the Nueces massacre. At the start of the civil war, almost a hundred armed German Texans (who opposed slavery♥️🙏🏿) tried to flee South to Mexico, so that they could make it over to New Orleans. The Confederate soldiers caught them and massacred them.Robstown in Nueces County, was one of the last places to begrudgingly give up slavery 2 years after the emancipation proclamation.This is the logo of the Robstown football team today.🤡
(DIR) Post #AWitMYb4dUUTKUX21Y by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-06-15T12:29:55Z
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Why are white Texans who died bravely fighting to keep slavery going remembered as heroes? But white Texans who died bravely fighting to oppose slavery, forgotten and not talked about? 🤔What are we really celebrating?"Everyone was racist back then!" No. No they weren't. Stop saying that.
(DIR) Post #AWiuHrbcdN3kn578eu by sdresser@mastodon.social
2023-06-15T17:50:07Z
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@mekkaokereke Thank your for everything you’re doing to educate and inform. As a white male who grew up in a relatively sheltered and privileged community, these stories are so eye opening and powerful. Keep them coming so I can keep boosting!
(DIR) Post #AWjRavbtGcpvCPwDeS by AIaYYAle4i1uKmKpqy.gme@bofh.social
2023-06-16T00:21:11.495972Z
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@mekkaokereke So that’s why there’s a literal pan-handle in Oklahoma?! #TIL
(DIR) Post #AWnaujQLxcuTPrtoAK by steevmi1@freeradical.zone
2023-06-15T12:39:22Z
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@mekkaokereke Honestly at this point it’s safer to assume that if we’re lionizing them as heroes it’s for the same reason we put up statues honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest.
(DIR) Post #AWnblitKfgyp71ipuK by pdkoenig@mstdn.social
2023-06-17T04:32:00Z
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@mekkaokereke Texas history is sounding like every time they have the opportunity to do the most racist, greedy, and dehumanizing thing figuring this time it will work and it ends up horribly for them. They’re like the Wile E Coyote of racism. Their isolated power grid seems like it is supplied by Acme — and prevents wind power getting sold out of state to protect white oil barons.
(DIR) Post #AWnbll4OZX19ruuhQe by frede@hachyderm.io
2023-06-17T13:24:29Z
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@pdkoenig @mekkaokereke Texas Observer just published an article about the probation system and it’s somehow worse than you’d expect. Like telling people they can’t have bank accounts or credit cards but still require them to have a job.Edit: https://www.texasobserver.org/parole-probation-texas-gps-monitoring/
(DIR) Post #AWnbllxhFvFmdQmrcu by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-06-17T13:41:44Z
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@frede @pdkoenig Texas Observer is leaning into what I think the future of journalism could be like: a different revenue model than "If it bleeds, it leads and Black people bad" reader traffic from decentralized rather than centralized social media, local journalism that more closely aligns with the real lived experiences of most people. ♥️👍🏿And for a tiny newsroom, they're doing better on representation than newsrooms many times larger:https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/ @TexasObserver
(DIR) Post #AWpXNZdvOWfTyhfGGu by deirdresm@hachyderm.io
2023-06-18T08:36:57Z
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@mekkaokereke One of my favorite white guys from the founding of the US was French: the Marquis de Lafayette, who offered to pay for Jefferson’s slaves to be free; Jefferson refused. He urged Washington to free his slaves; Washington refused.(Lafayette did buy a plantation with slaves that he intended to give an education, then free, but France seized the land.)
(DIR) Post #AWpXTKrlFOrJszsqu0 by WanderingBeekeeper@wandering.shop
2023-06-18T13:17:52Z
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@deirdresm @mekkaokereke The tour guides at Monticello currently bring this point up, that Jefferson only freed 11 people in his life, and four of them were blood relatives, and that Lafayette was quite disgusted with Jefferson for failing to live up to his principles. Monticello is run by a private foundation, not by the US government, and is thus able to present Jefferson not as a national hero, but as a complicated, deeply flawed man who did both great and terrible things.