MJ🎹

#GodFirst #USAF #GulfWarVet #BlackLivesMatter #WNBA #WhoDat #LA #OrangeNation #CarolinaGirl #CancerSucks

[MJ🎹 @MsMelissaL]

@HuffPost We plan to send him somewhere in 2020 vote @harrisonjaime

[BGR HEADQUARTERS @bgrheadquarters]

Because @Google is racist Period 💯💯💯

[Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy]

White lefists: Fuck Jasmine Crockett, her loud ass can't win statewide in Texas. She can fuck off!

Four months later...

White leftists: Why won't Jasmine Crockett help Talarico?! Why is she being such a brat?!

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy Juneteenth

[Jedi @dhe3g]

A white guy can do the worst thing ever and the headline will still open with a compliment

[Covie @covie_93]

Love how they're just minding their business instead of trying to take over protected land in Albania to build a billionaire retreat.

[Covie @covie_93]

Republicans: We freed the slaves!

Also Republicans: Celebrating slaves being freed is racist!

[Haywood Jablowme👨🏾‍🦯 @WhoTfIsBravo]

It’s a buncha of way better WNBA players than Caitlin if we being real

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1865, enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was 2.5 years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. #Juneteenth 

But Slavery continued…

A THREAD

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Contrary to popular belief, abolition did not happen in an instant, like a lightning strike, but rather gradually.

Vermont prohibited slavery in its state constitution on June 2, 1777. Pennsylvania passed a gradual abolition act on March 1, 1780. New Hampshire authorized gradual abolition on June 2, 1783, while Massachusetts and Maine abolished slavery completely on July 9, 1783, due to a judicial interpretation. Rhode Island and Connecticut passed a gradual abolition act on March 1, 1784. Likewise, New York and New Jersey passed a gradual abolition act on July 4, 1804. The District of Columbia passed an Emancipation Act freeing thousands in the nation’s capital on April 16, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, liberated approximately 3.5 million enslaved people in Confederate territory.

On March 16, 1864, Arkansas abolished slavery through its state constitution. Likewise, Louisiana followed suit on September 5, 1864; Maryland on November 1, 1864; Missouri on January 11, 1865; West Virginia on February 3, 1865; and Tennessee on February 22, 1865. In other states, slavery was abolished through the Union Army’s military advances into Confederate territory. The fall of Richmond, Virginia, on April 3, 1865; military enforcement in Florida on May 20, 1865; and Order №3 in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, marked the end of slavery in those areas. Slavery persisted in Delaware until the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865. Black people’s freedom depended on their geographical location. And the loophole in the 13th Amendment, which authorizes involuntary servitude for those convicted of a crime, shows that the work of abolitionists is unfinished.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Happy Juneteenth! Just a reminder that USA never abolished slavery. The 13th amendment actually allows incarcerated people to be used as slaves. This is why our corporate overlords love mass incarceration so much and why they'll never support policies that reduce crime.

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Reason #1 why racist white people are dumb:

They’re mad that people celebrate Juneteenth because they think it’s a man made holiday.

The funny part is…all holidays are man-made. Every single one of them. Humans literally created holidays to recognize people, events, traditions, and moments in history.

Funny how that argument only comes up when the holiday doesn’t revolve around them.

So the problem isn’t that Juneteenth is man made. The problem is that they don’t like what’s being celebrated.

See y’all tomorrow for another reason.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

The only people upset about Juneteenth being a holiday are the white trash racists.

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

4th of July is a fake holiday too 🤷🏾‍♀️

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Happy Juneteenth!!

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

So when are white parents going to be charged, convicted, and sentenced for the acts of their children for school shootings?

[⟡𖦹⟡ Bran ⟡𖦹⟡ @sogorgeousbran]

Yall feel so entitled to black American culture it’s so baffling 😭😭😭 never in my life would i overstep someone else shit

[Debbie Lolo, Esq @mss_debbie]

Angel Reese whistle is so horrible. She gets beaten up and hacked in the paint, yet gets nothing. However, she lifts her arms and grazes her opponent and it's immediately a foul by Reese or try to upgrade it. You can't tell these refs aren't biased against her. It's crazy!!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Lawrence O’Donnell on Obama vs. Trump: “Humanity, dignity, and amazing presidential grace. And then came Donald Trump. Disgraceful, heartless, vulgarity, relentless stupidity and cruelty. Donald Trump is the loser in that comparison in every possible way”

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Happy Juneteenth! I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you. https://t.co/p3747yiBFg

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

We need more of this energy. Black people— don’t shop where you’re racially profiled