Riki/ The Befuddled Dumbass

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.

P.S. But her best image always will:

I went into Reign of the Superboys expecting Kid Jon to just be another fakeout. I'll always miss that version of Jon Kent, but it was fun theorizing about what the actual situation was. And it was... well, pretty easy to figure out from the getgo. But that's okay. Even a twist that can be predicted can still be fun as long as it is executed well. And it really was.

Yet, it's not disappointment I feel that this wasn't the past version of our Jon, but rather, anger. Anger at another person entirely.

Ultraman.

I mean, how sick in the head do you have to be to put someone else's child through what he did to Jon and then go around and do the same to his own kid? What's even more disturbing is I think Ultraman was trying to make his kid more like Jon.