I did not know, what I did not know. Thank you. I will talk about this important issue and share with others. I pray that Jesus Christ continues to protect and prosper your work to truly make America great; by acknowledging, respecting and protecting the rights of ALL its citizens.
Beautiful essay; dutiful essay. Like many others, I failed to pay attention during the 1980s and 1990s as the social ties frayed and then snapped. Time REALLY to pay attention now,
Mitch - Beautiful piece. Two of the most profound books I have read in my life:
“How the Word Is Passed,” by Clint Smith, and “The Color of Law,” by Richard Rothstein.
Though he’s not mentioned by name in the latter, I know without a doubt that one of the biggest antagonists to the elimination of de jure segregation infecting the federal govt up to the 1950s was the father of our current Circus Clown in Chief.
Happy Juneteenth back at you!
ps maybe one day this makes Final Jeopardy if it hasn’t already:
“In 1886, this man became the last slave to be emancipated by order of a US federal court.”
If you’ve ever visited Sitka, Alaska, there is a grizzled taxi driver who’ll tell you the answer . . .
Freedom comes from the barrel of a gun, in this case as in many others. It is not as if there were no way for the news to arrive earlier -- by now there was the telegraph and the telephone, as well as the U.S. Post Office. The slaveowners were not about to announce the law until soldiers made them do it. Texas is not that far away -- I suppose there was some activity in the other states of the Confederacy. Did soldiers arrive there?
Mitch,
I did not know, what I did not know. Thank you. I will talk about this important issue and share with others. I pray that Jesus Christ continues to protect and prosper your work to truly make America great; by acknowledging, respecting and protecting the rights of ALL its citizens.
Excellent explanation and history lesson. Never learned any of this in school.
Beautiful essay; dutiful essay. Like many others, I failed to pay attention during the 1980s and 1990s as the social ties frayed and then snapped. Time REALLY to pay attention now,
Opal Lee is a great example of a Timeless Leader.
Mitch - Beautiful piece. Two of the most profound books I have read in my life:
“How the Word Is Passed,” by Clint Smith, and “The Color of Law,” by Richard Rothstein.
Though he’s not mentioned by name in the latter, I know without a doubt that one of the biggest antagonists to the elimination of de jure segregation infecting the federal govt up to the 1950s was the father of our current Circus Clown in Chief.
Happy Juneteenth back at you!
ps maybe one day this makes Final Jeopardy if it hasn’t already:
“In 1886, this man became the last slave to be emancipated by order of a US federal court.”
If you’ve ever visited Sitka, Alaska, there is a grizzled taxi driver who’ll tell you the answer . . .
Freedom comes from the barrel of a gun, in this case as in many others. It is not as if there were no way for the news to arrive earlier -- by now there was the telegraph and the telephone, as well as the U.S. Post Office. The slaveowners were not about to announce the law until soldiers made them do it. Texas is not that far away -- I suppose there was some activity in the other states of the Confederacy. Did soldiers arrive there?