Khalil Greene
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 18 Jun
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And I think that that's maybe something that we don't see at face value when we look at content online, how much organizing happens behind the scenes around which messages are being pushed and which issues we're talking about.
But that's something that's absolutely happening because
Content creators, real world organizers and activists and politicians are all coming together in this fight against the Trump administration.
And it's a very important fight and it's a fight that we're winning.
Yeah, so with Juneteenth coming up, I wrote an article and basically the argument of this article is that the way we learn about Juneteenth, even from oftentimes black leaders, especially from national sources, it's taught in a way that frames African-Americans as very passive.
The main characters are Lincoln,
The main characters are the general, the Union General, I think Gordon Granger is how you pronounce his name, that came to Galveston, Texas to deliver the news of freedom.
But it overemphasizes their role and underemphasizes the role of Black Americans, specifically even Black Texans.
and the role of emancipation for themselves.
And I think one of the big takeaways and the big lessons that I want Gen Zers or really everyone to grasp from this article and from this intervention, this historical intervention is the idea
something that you brought up actually is that maybe change is not going to happen immediately, right?
Like there was slavery for hundreds of years, 400, probably if you count all the way back to when Spanish, Spaniards first brought Africans to the Americas.
There was slavery for hundreds of years.
And across those hundreds of years, there were very small acts of rebellion, whether it be someone running away or someone leading a
a rebellion on their plantation or organizing a demonstration, freed people organizing demonstrations and protests and writing and pamphlets.
The process of abolition took hundreds and hundreds of years and every small action, no matter how much it's talked about in our history textbooks, it did happen and it was a part of this snowball that kept rolling.
in order to lead to the Civil War, in order to lead to slavery ending.
And African-Americans who were enslaved were a huge, huge, huge part of that.
And across every movement today, it's important to remember that even if you're doing something as small as reposting to your story, an Instagram post, or signing a petition, or showing up to a No King's Day protest,
Once again, it might not go in the history books, but it absolutely does affect history.
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