Al Sharpton to speak at Juneteenth event in Tulsa, ahead of Trump rally

[mystery-ak]

Al Sharpton to speak at Juneteenth event in Tulsa, ahead of Trump rally

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled on Friday to headline an event in Tulsa, Okla., marking the end of slavery — one day before President Trump is slated to hold a 2020 reelection rally in the same city.

Sharpton, a longtime civil rights activist, will be speaking at a Juneteenth event, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African people in the United States.

Ahead of his speech, Sharpton said it was crucial for Americans to understand the history of Juneteenth and the struggles leading up to it to get an accurate picture of why so many protests have been taking place across the country over the last several weeks.


"You can't understand where we are now if you don't understand that this is part of American history," he said on MSNBC. "... I think that in order to understand this moment, that's pregnant with possibilities, pregnant with real change, you need to understand what is built into this moment and if you don't understand your own fellow citizens and the history of their parents and grandparents passed down to them you will not understand what we are responding to now when we see history to continue to repeat itself when you have cases like George Floyd and Rayshard (Brooks) in Atlanta, Georgia."

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[Cyber Liberty]

"You can't understand where we are now if you don't understand that this is part of American history," he said on MSNBC.

I'm glad he brought that up, because I always thought we went straight from June 18 to June 20.  Now, I am not only aware the number 19 comes between 18 and 20, but that the Civil War actually ended! Huh. 

I learn new crap every day.

[mountaineer]

Saturday, June 20, 2020
Black lies matter


Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times explained why Juneteenth is so important to the Black Liberation Movement (or Black Lives Matter as it now calls itself). Juneteenth allows black intellectuals like him to divorce themselves from Lincoln's freeing of the slaves.

Lincoln is nettlesome to Bouie and others because having white people free the slaves makes it impossible to write off the entire white race. Indeed, 300,000 white boys from the North died to liberate 6 million people and make them American citizens. ...

Well, Bouie and his kind cannot have white boys dying for black men -- and Christian white boys at that.

So he put his head in the sand and spun Juneteenth. ...  More by Don Surber

[Cyber Liberty]

Saturday, June 20, 2020
Black lies matter


Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times explained why Juneteenth is so important to the Black Liberation Movement (or Black Lives Matter as it now calls itself). Juneteenth allows black intellectuals like him to divorce themselves from Lincoln's freeing of the slaves.

Lincoln is nettlesome to Bouie and others because having white people free the slaves makes it impossible to write off the entire white race. Indeed, 300,000 white boys from the North died to liberate 6 million people and make them American citizens. ...

Well, Bouie and his kind cannot have white boys dying for black men -- and Christian white boys at that.

So he put his head in the sand and spun Juneteenth. ...  More by Don Surber

This Bouie fool actually thinks the slaves freed themselves.  This is not real.... 

[PeteS in CA]

I think this was of greater moment, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution .