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   Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 08:38:58 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

   #Juneteenth: Every time I would return home, I would drive on streets named for those who would have wanted me in chains.
   Go straight for two miles on Robert E. Lee, take a left on Jefferson Davis, make the first right on Claiborne. Translation: Go straight for two miles on the general who slaughtered hundreds of Black soldiers who were trying to surrender, take a left on the president of the Confederacy who made the torture of Black bodies the cornerstone of his new nation, make the first right on the man who permitted the heads of rebelling slaves to be put on stakes and spread across the city in order to prevent the others from getting any ideas.
   What name is there for this sort of violence? What do you call it when the road you walk on is named for those who imagined you under a noose? What do you call it when the roof over your head is named after people who would have wanted the bricks to crush you?
   Clint Smith, author of the book How the Word Is Passed on Democracy Now
   https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/19/juneteenth_special_historian_clint_smith_on

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     Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 08:38:58 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

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     Clint Smith- when you have a more acute understanding of how slavery shaped the infrastructure of this country, then you’re able to more effectively look around you and see how the reason one community looks one way and another community looks another way is not because of the people in those communities, but is because of what has been done to those communities, generation after generation after generation. And I think that that is central to the sort of public pedagogy that so many of these activists and organizers who have been attempting to make Juneteenth a holiday and bring attention to it as an entry point to think more wholly and honestly about the legacy of slavery have been doing.

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