See, I was missing something, glad I asked!
Texas learned of Lee’s surrender earlier, but military and political leaders in Texas wanted to fight on. United States forces didn’t occupy Texas until that June 19th landing at Galveston.
Yup, just been reading up, which would have been smarter than asking first here like a dumbass. :) Thanks though!
I thought I heard it was 1865.
Nope. Slavery didn’t end in the slave states that had never seceded/sided with the North (Kentucky and Delaware) until the 13th Amendment was passed on December 18th, 1865, six months later.
Ultimately picking Juneteenth as the day to celebrate the end of slavery is pretty arbitrary. But then, so are most holidays. (E.g. President’s Day.)
That’s a really useful article, thanks for posting it.
The following was helpful as to ‘why is there racism in the US, and how is it formed?’:
That looks good on paper, but it’s not as impressive as it sounds since I’m not sure the SEC holds any championships in Mississippi, or at least none that matter much beyond participants and their families. Looking into the sports that could generate a decent amount of revenue for a state/city: football’s championship is in Atlanta, men’s hoops is in Nashville, women’s basketball is in Greenville, baseball is in Hoover, AL,. Softball was in Mississippi in 2015, but it looks to rotate venues regularly and has no future dates locked in, making it easier to move around to avoid Mississippi. Maybe they hold cross country there or something, but I doubt that moves the needle much.
It’s worth noting that Georgia’s state flag is the actual confederate flag (i.e., not the stars-and-bars battle flag that’s so popular among racists these days) with the state seal slapped into the blue bit in the corner.
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I think that video has upset some white people.
Ah, thanks for the correction!
You’re right; I guess my hope is that athletes’ decisions may be influenced based on where they feel welcome playing (both home and away) - and if that happens to no longer be the SEC there will be a lot of unhappy monied interests who will lean on MS or the politicians will find their war chests awfully bare.
I realize this is a big ask for a young athlete simply trying to do what’s best for them and isn’t fair. This story about a top basketball recruit has inspired me though:
https://sports.yahoo.com/mikey-williams-considering-an-hbcu-a-move-that-could-shake-up-college-basketball-150047572.html
Today I learned that Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, OH:
We have our share of Nazis-pretending-to-be-police-backers here in Massachusetts. Here (top picture) are some asshats “counter-protesting” a Juneteenth rally (lower picture.) Which I guess makes them … pro-slavery.
I think you take the Guy Ferry to get to Flavortown.
Some data re: Branding
But while the slogan is suddenly everywhere, so far it doesn’t poll well. Four polls conducted in the past two weeks found that Americans opposed the “defund the police” movement or “defunding police departments” 58 percent to 31 percent, on average.
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in those very same polls , some of these policy ideas enjoy far more backing among the American public than the slogan does — though the level of support does vary pretty widely depending on the details of the proposal.
For instance, when Reuters/Ipsos queried people about “proposals to move some money currently going to police budgets into better officer training, local programs for homelessness, mental health assistance, and domestic violence,” a whopping 76 percent of people who were familiar with those proposals supported them, with only 22 percent opposed. Democrats and independents supported these proposals in huge numbers while Republicans were split, 51 percent in favor to 47 percent opposed.
Meanwhile, Morning Consult/Politico asked respondents whether they supported “redirecting funding for the police department in [their] local community to support community development programs,” and just 43 percent of register voters said they supported it, while 42 percent opposed it. Still, this was a significant increase in support from the pollster’s question about support for the “movement to ‘defund the police’” (which, to reiterate, was 28 percent support vs. 58 percent opposition).
Respondents reacted as negatively to the “defund the police” movement as they reacted to proposals to completely dismantle police departments.
