in case you didn’t know, butter pecan ice cream exists because Black people in the South weren’t allowed to eat vanilla ice cream in public..because it was white ... so they added butter nd some pecans to it to make it acceptable for them to eat in public.
Just a little reminder on this Juneteenth,and remember that, when you’re eating butter pecan ice cream: the thousands of different acts of resistance, both great nd small, that black folks have had to use to overcome the scourge of white supremacy always ...
“I am personally proud of the holocaust of Gaza, and that 80 years from now, they will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did,”
—The Israeli Minister of Social Equality.
Juneteenth is a reminder that none of this is ancient history. For example, people who think Emmett Till was "so long ago" should be reminded that 10 current members of Congress are older than him, and the white woman Carolyn Bryant who falsely accused him died only 3 years ago.
It’s not ancient history. It’s not even history. It’s contemporary reality.