Can you imagine getting a raise but they still pay you the same as before for two years? All of a sudden, you receive a notice that you were supposed to be paid your raise two years ago. You get the raise but not the time or back pay. How would you feel? Now that is serious capitalism.
Now imagined if you were stolen, enslaved, separated, packed like sardines in excrement and dead babies amongst dead bodies, some thrown overboard without burial, brought to stolen land, forced to procreate with your own children, whipped, beaten, hung, worked worse than a mule, forced to nurse a foreign child before your own, your own children used as foot warmers, forced against your will to have children that are not your husband's while you are servant and he owns you, your husband and your children. The list goes on. Say you find out their laws finally say you are free. Imagine you look closer at the fine print and find out you were free two years prior. Imagine the same country was built of of the mortgages of your people. Seen as less than human. You. Who come from a great culture. Imagine you still survive and thrive despite it all. Imagine in the future, they tried to commodify such a deep tragedy,while the gross injustices are still happening. CAPITALISM.
We claim space to honor this deep INJUSTICE. You have no right to center yourself in this discussion, other than to listen and take in this truth of history. I'm seeing articles that the new "code" for Juneteenth is fighting for racial equality. That's erasure. That absolves how that event and every event before or following has undermined our people. Sit in truth. That's all. It is a day to honor ancestors, our way.
Be human. Learn something. We don't need another holiday. We need some land, arrests made, folk freed, land esp the Black townships you destroyed that go for high prices now, all our art, all our music, all our intellectual property. We will take the arrests for now. #Juneteenth
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