I just wanted to remind the uneducated who are celebrating today as if today is only a black holiday about the history behind Juneteenth! The more you know!
The cops murdered a 1-year-old baby in Mississippi after someone falsely accused his mother of shoplifting from Walmart.
Even if the diapers were stolen that is no justification for cops to murder anyone let alone a child, but she had a receipt.
A baby is dead because of a shoot-first, murderous cop AND a racist person who profiled a Black mother and called the police over diapers that she didn’t even steal.
They Couldn’t Conquer Memory
The Benin Kingdom built nearly 10,000 miles of walls by hand; the British Empire tore them down in days and stole the bronzes.
Europe didn’t “discover” Africa, it looted it, then called the ruins history.
Today is the birthday of the great Malcolm X.
His message is still relevant today because we still live under the same capitalist system that has to change for things to get better.
“You’re living at a time of revolution. A time where there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it. And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built. I will join with anyone, I don’t care what color you are, as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
Most people don’t even know her name.
Alice Parker is her name. Back in 1919, she created and patented a gas-powered heating system when most homes were still using fireplaces and coal stoves. She imagined heating an entire home safely, with different rooms warmed individually instead of relying on one fire source.
Even though her system wasn’t fully used back then, her ideas are the reason modern central heating and zoning exist today. That’s Black history. That’s legacy.