A Taste Of Freedom

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Juneteenth commemorates the day that enslaved Texans found out — more than two years after Emancipation Day — that they were free. It's also a day known for celebratory meals and red drinks. But as the holiday becomes more widespread, we wondered: Is there a risk that certain people (and corporations) will try to keep the food and lose the history?

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0:00.0	What is good, y'all? This is Gene.
0:02.5	And just the heads up, this episode is about Juneteenth.
0:06.8	I did not mean for that to sound like a disclaimer.
0:10.8	Like I was like, oh, how'd your kids? We about to talk about Juneteenth.
0:13.3	Nothing like that, of course.
0:15.2	After we take this episode, the US Senate decided to vote to make Juneteenth a legal federal holiday,
0:21.6	which is a big deal.
0:23.1	And had we known that the beginning of this episode will be very different.
0:26.8	We would have spent the top talking about, you know, what it means for something like Juneteenth
0:31.2	to be legitimized of doing air quotes.
0:34.1	Legitimized by institution like the US Senate.
0:38.1	Because the Juneteenth is fundamentally a celebration of liberation and emancipation and freedom.
0:43.8	Like, it's about to get rubber stamped by an institution that was deeply invested in making sure
0:50.0	that liberation and emancipation and freedom didn't happen, you know?
0:52.8	So, those are all questions that we don't get into in this episode, but we wanted to let you know
0:58.0	that we know that you know that this went down and that this episode does not get into that very much.
1:06.1	This episode is about black food ways and how Juneteenth provides us a way to celebrate those food ways.
1:14.1	But we will get to those big questions another time, just not in this episode.
1:18.3	All right.
1:19.8	On to the show.
1:25.2	I'm Karen Googsby, based sitting in for Shureen.
1:27.5	I'm Jean Tembie and this, this is Co-Twitch.
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