#jelanicobb

I know I am late on this, but Happy Juneteenth! It's imperative that we learn our history so that we stop repeating it. Here's an excerpt on the holiday from The New Yorker, by Staff Writer Jelani Cobb. . ---------------------------------------------------------- "On June 19, 1865, the nearly two hundred thousand men, women, and children enslaved in Texas learned of their emancipation, two and a half years after Lincoln had issued the proclamation terminating slavery in states rebelling against the union. The institution of slavery was essentially an open-air prison, and proved remarkably successful, at least in this instance, at the kind of information control that exploitation relies on. Juneteenth, the annual celebration marking the day that this postponed freedom arrived in Texas, occupies a strange niche in American culture, isolated as a black tradition, as if the currents of slavery and its death did not shape the direction of the nation in its entirety." ---------------------------------------------------------- #happyjuneteenth #americanhistory #thisisamerica #americanculture #Juneteenth #jelanicobb #thenewyorker #freedom #emancipation #black #africanamerican #blackindependanceday #melandolly #blackdolls #black #wegotalongwaytogo #betterlatethannever #melanin #blackliberation #holiday #ooak #dollmaker #independenceday

OK, I get it to a point: most of you #bookstagram readers don't want to hear the real. There's nothing wrong with your escapism. But understand that there are those of us who are actively promoting the truth and authors of color. Case in point: Jelani Cobb, an award-winning Black man, writing a short volume about what a group of white men, over 50 years ago, found out to be true about systemic racism in the U.S. The best book you may read all year, and the real demons are hiding in plain site. BTW, your local library has one, more than likely, so not attempting to sell you things you don't need here, either. #racism #blackauthors #jelanicobb #kernerreport #ushistory (at Beaverton, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSMow5Br1Ra/?utm_medium=tumblr

Jelani Cobb, historien noir américain qui a suivi le procès pour le magazine The New Yorker.