I hope folks can either read the following, or find it on: www.democracynow.org
The discussion should get the brain cells working.
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: America Must Make Amends for the Horror of Slavery | Weekly Column
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Breaking the Sound Barrier
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Weekly Column Thursday, June 20, 2019
** America Must Make Amends for the Horror of Slavery
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom. The name comes from a
combination of the two words in the date, June nineteenth. On that day
in 1865, 250,000 slaves in Texas were freed by a Union Army general
who had arrived with troops in Galveston the day before. The Civil War
had ended more than a month earlier, but word of the war’s end took
time to reach parts of Texas. By the end of 1865, the 13th Amendment
had been ratified, formally outlawing slavery across the United
States.
It was an incredible victory, but the trajectory of systemic racism in
the United States did not end there, as we know all too well. Indeed,
the real-world impacts of slavery on today’s African American
population were front and center in Washington, D.C., this week, as
historic hearings and public gatherings convened to discuss, debate
and organize around reparations and poverty, and to offer a vision for
a more just and equitable nation.
On Wednesday, Juneteenth, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing
on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals
for African-Americans Act. It was introduced by ... Read More →
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