Juneteenth - Tumblr Posts
if you don't do anything else today,
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
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happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.
#hellajuneteenth
We’re standing in solidarity with Hella Creative’s #hellajuneteenth movement and echoing their demands: Juneteenth should be declared a federally recognized holiday. Celebrating Independence Day as a day of freedom when enslaved Black men, women, and children were not legally declared free for another 85 years (with 250,000 not told until two and a half years later) white-washes the cruel legacy of our country’s greatest sin. It’s time we demand Congress step up.
We’re stepping up, too
Starting this year, Juneteenth will be recognized as an official company holiday at Tumblr. This should have been done long ago. If you’d like to see your companies do the same, check out #hellajuneteenth’s incredible resources including templates for requesting your employer recognize Juneteenth like they recognize Independence Day. There’s also a template for an out-of-office message to help spread the word and a poster business owners can print out and hang in the office. For those eager to show their support on social media, #hellajuneteenth provides a number of graphics to share and they suggest you use the #juneteenth tag with the following caption:
We’re reclaiming our time.
For years, the enslaved people gave countless hours of free labor to their owners. Since emancipation, we have been making up for that lost time. So in true solidarity with our ancestors, it’s only right that we declare this to be a day free of labor.
This is important
Sign this petition addressed to Congress. Contact your reps and encourage them to support the initiative. Your voices have led to Minneapolis pledging to disband its police department, the arrests of the police officers responsible for George Floyd’s death, the repeal of Section 50-A in NYC, and the long-overdue demolition of Confederate statues.
Keep that energy going, Tumblr. Demand Juneteenth gets federal recognition. You’re winning, so don’t stop now.
Staying cool this weekend? Hope you had a happy Juneteenth 🤩 #juneteenth #pride #gay #shirtlessboy #shirtlessguy #cuteboy #cuteguy #musclemotivation #model https://www.instagram.com/p/CQXICbqr3za/?utm_medium=tumblr
On this day in 1865, the last enslaved people in the United States found out they had been freed after the Civil War. Almost 160 years later, African-Americans and other black communities all over the globe are still fighting for equality, human rights, and the freedom to live our lives without fear.
Specifically being a black girl from texas juneteenth means a lot to me!
Happy Juneteenth 🤎✊🏽
Donate if you can! 🤗
Happy #Juneteenth, Tumblr!
Celebrating #JuneteenthJoy by donating a symbolic $19 (minimum) to the following organizations and funds, specifically centering Black LGBTQ folks and Black women of every identity.
Organizations:
The Okra Project/Tony McDade Fund/Nina Pop Fund
Atlanta Solidarity Fund
Dem Bois
Trans Justice Funding Project
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
Louisville Bail Fund
The African American Policy Reform (Creators of #SayHerName)
Brooklyn Bail Fund
Black Trans Travel Fund
Black & Pink Bail Fund
Private Crowdfunds:
Help Sophia pay her class fees
Help Trey Publish Black Paranormal Horror Stories
Help Sierra go to Grad School
Help Yana to survive
Help Valentine transition
Help Aihs finish school
Help Hams stay healthy
Help Adrian get top surgery
Help Yah Yah continue writing
Non-Black Allies: Donate a minimum of $19 to a Black org or individual in need today. This is is just a list to help you get started – feel free to donate to anyone you see today.
Thank you! - @marsincharge
if you don't do anything else today,
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.
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its almost my b day!! just a few more days and i'll become actually responsible :,>
for juneteenth the innocence project sent out a collection of reading material on their mailing list that i thought i should share with all of you-- a reminder of how the us prison system is a continuation of slavery, and how we must keep fighting for justice and equality. they also are accepting donations if you have a few bucks to send their way: every dollar counts!
How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended
On Juneteenth, Here Are 5 Ways to Be a Better Ally
Race and Wrongful Conviction
How a Wrongly Incarcerated Person Became the ‘Most Brilliant Legal Mind’ in ‘America’s Bloodiest Prison’
A Mistaken Identification Sent Him to Prison for 38 Years, But He Never Gave Up Fighting for Freedom
‘The Dungeon Was the Last Place I Wanted to Go’: An Exoneree’s Story of Survival at Angola Prison
Book an Innocence Project Speaker This Month
Regarding pride flags
Correct me if I am wrong, but pride flags are a way for someone to identify with something they're proud of, right? So for example:
The gay pride flag (Shown above as figure 1) is used by people that are proud to be gay.
Here's the thing: If a flag is a pride flag because the flag represents something people are proud to be, then that means that being proud of a cultural identity would consequently make a flag associated with that culture a pride flag. For example:
The St. Andrews Cross (Shown above as figure 2) is more commonly known as the flag of Scotland. Scotland is a well-known distinct cultural region in the British Isles - a region in Europe - wherein there are the people known as the Scots.
If their efforts at an independence referendum are any indication, the Scots are rather proud of being Scottish. Ergo therefore, since a pride flag represents a concept that some group of people proudly identify as - such as being gay or being Scottish - then that makes the St. Andrews Cross a pride flag, in a way.
Since cultural pride can reasonably be made as an argument for a flag related to that culture to thus be a pride flag, I propose the following:
The American South is populated by a distinct culture known as Dixie culture. This region does (as geographically distinct cultures tend to do) have people that are proud of being Southern - of being Dixie. The thing is, there is a flag associated with Dixie culture:
The Stars and Bars (shown above as figure 3) is commonly known as the first flag of the long-gong Confederate States of America - a breakaway nation whose legacy is nowadays associated with slavery, and with being punctuated by northern Union troops landing in Galveston Bay. This is a historical event that as of the time of writing, occurred exactly 159 years ago to the day.
What is not as well known about the Stars and Bars is that in those 159 years since the end of the Confederacy, the meaning of the flag has shifted. It no longer is the flag of a country long dead. Nowadays, it is a flag representing the Dixie culture of the American South. As mentioned before, there are doubtless people in the South that are proud to be Dixie.
Therefore, if we accept that some people are proud to be of the American South, that the Stars and Bars nowadays represents said region's main distinct cultural identity, and that a flag can be a pride flag because it represents a culture people are proud of, then we reach an inescapable conclusion: The Stars and Bars is a pride flag.
Aaand cue the flamewars in the notes
Regarding pride flags
Correct me if I am wrong, but pride flags are a way for someone to identify with something they're proud of, right? So for example:
The gay pride flag (Shown above as figure 1) is used by people that are proud to be gay.
Here's the thing: If a flag is a pride flag because the flag represents something people are proud to be, then that means that being proud of a cultural identity would consequently make a flag associated with that culture a pride flag. For example:
The St. Andrews Cross (Shown above as figure 2) is more commonly known as the flag of Scotland. Scotland is a well-known distinct cultural region in the British Isles - a region in Europe - wherein there are the people known as the Scots.
If their efforts at an independence referendum are any indication, the Scots are rather proud of being Scottish. Ergo therefore, since a pride flag represents a concept that some group of people proudly identify as - such as being gay or being Scottish - then that makes the St. Andrews Cross a pride flag, in a way.
Since cultural pride can reasonably be made as an argument for a flag related to that culture to thus be a pride flag, I propose the following:
The American South is populated by a distinct culture known as Dixie culture. This region does (as geographically distinct cultures tend to do) have people that are proud of being Southern - of being Dixie. The thing is, there is a flag associated with Dixie culture:
The Stars and Bars (shown above as figure 3) is commonly known as the first flag of the long-gong Confederate States of America - a breakaway nation whose legacy is nowadays associated with slavery, and with being punctuated by northern Union troops landing in Galveston Bay. This is a historical event that as of the time of writing, occurred exactly 159 years ago to the day.
What is not as well known about the Stars and Bars is that in those 159 years since the end of the Confederacy, the meaning of the flag has shifted. It no longer is the flag of a country long dead. Nowadays, it is a flag representing the Dixie culture of the American South. As mentioned before, there are doubtless people in the South that are proud to be Dixie.
Therefore, if we accept that some people are proud to be of the American South, that the Stars and Bars nowadays represents said region's main distinct cultural identity, and that a flag can be a pride flag because it represents a culture people are proud of, then we reach an inescapable conclusion: The Stars and Bars is a pride flag.
happy juneteenth🤍!!! here's a list of black gfms that have yet to meet their goals! (black ppl feel free to link your or others donation posts in a reblog! reblogs from nonblack ppl appreciated!)
help teej's sister get a breast reduction.
help audi, a closeted black lesbian, move out of a toxic household.
help shay, a black nonbinary, with their moving expenses.
help gaia afford a house for her father suffering with homelessness and stage 3 colon cancer.
help a autistic transmasc lesbian move out of an ableist and abusive household.
help sapphire, a black transwoman, get out of an abusive household.
help sol, a black transwoman, with her transition and other necessities.
help melanie with her gender affirming surgery.
help a disabled incoming freshman pay for college.
help micah, a black queer transmasc person move.
help silver, a gnc black lesbian get a new camera and laptop.
help zora, a nonbinary transfem, move and transition.
help noelle, a black transwoman afford surgery and other basic necessities.
Pride Collection CC Kit by make_it_sizzle
I’m excited to announce the release of my Pride Collection CC Kit. On this special month of June, we celebrate Juneteenth and Pride month. As an African American man who also happens to be gay and play The Sims, creating this CC kit was so important for me. I truly feel as though the spirit of Storme DeLarverie should be in each and every one of us, which is why I named one of my CC items after them.
Below is a brief history of the two holidays.
If you do not already know, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Celebrated annually on June 19th, its origins date back to 1865. On June 19, 1965, General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people were now free. However, the enslaved people had no idea they had already been emancipated. That June 19th announcement arrived 2 and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863.
The first Pride was a riot. Pride Month is an annual celebration of many of the contributions made by the LGBTQ+ community to cultures, society, and history worldwide. Pride commemorates its roots in the Stonewall Riots that occurred on June 28th, 1969. As was a common practice in many cities, the New York Police Department (NYPD) would occasionally raid bars where gays and lesbians were known to gather. On June 28, police dragged patrons and employees out of Stonewall In, a popular gay bar in Manhattan, New York, and several people fought back against the NYPD. It was said that Storme DeLarverie, a gay rights activist, threw the first punch at the riot. A crowd of people slowly but surely grew which turned into a 6 day protest which was led largely by Black LGBTQ+ women that marched the streets of Manhattan.
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Included with this CC kit:
Pride Hat:
Gender inclusive
9 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
High-top Converse shoes
Gender inclusive
4 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
Pride jean shorts
10 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
Pride tank top
Gender inclusive
4 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
Necklace (2 lengths)
5 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
Leggings
3 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
Socks
3 swatches
Teen-Elder
BGC
BONUS CONTENT:
DeLarverie Hair
Hat Compatible
Maxis 24 swatches
Teen – Elder
BGC
Vertices: 11195 Polygons: 18604
Happy Juneteenth!