Let's Get Celebrated with Senator Turner
Hello Somebody
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate Juneteenth and the one-year anniversary(!) of HELLO SOMEBODY, Senator Turner asks us to reflect on what motivates us to be free, how we are defining the word “freedom” in the 21st Century, and the symbolization of Juneteenth and the emancipation of enslaved people in the confederate states. Settle in for this solo episode where SNT embraces you with a personal message of renewal, recognition, and celebration.Links:
Activist Opal Lee’s campaign to make Juneteenth a National Holiday in 2021
https://www.change.org/p/united-states-congress-make-juneteenth-a-national-holiday-in-2020Ava DuVernay’s documentary film 13th: http://www.avaduvernay.com/13thLangston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Media. |
| 0:10.6 | Before we begin, I want to give a special shout out to my team. |
| 0:14.8 | Thank you, Sim, Tiffany, Sam, and the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica, England, Pepper Chambers, the Hot One, and my social media team. Hello somebody. Hello somebody family. This is yours truly. Coming to you today, you know, I'm sowing a little bit. I hate when I sigh. And I kind of know why, but in some ways, you know, it's just a heaviness. I always say that when I want to say so much more. So the heaviness |
| 1:12.8 | right now is really a reflection, more than a heaviness. Let me just say, I am in a very |
| 1:18.0 | reflective mood. I know it's been a while since I've done a solo. I've had the opportunity |
| 1:23.0 | to interview so many fascinating people. I hope that you are enjoying those episodes. And at this |
| 1:31.5 | particular moment, I thought, let me go in to the Hello Somebody family. Let's talk about some |
| 1:36.2 | stuff, especially since we're coming up on a year since Hello Somebody made its debut. Yes, many of you may remember and thank you all. |
| 1:46.6 | Those of you who were with me from the beginning and some of the new folks we have here |
| 1:51.1 | right now in the Hello Somebody family, but it was June 10th of 2020 when the first episode |
| 1:59.1 | debuted. |
| 1:59.9 | And here we are coming up on June 10th in 2021. So first episode of the show of Hello Somebody and also a historic moment in our nation's history because Juneteenth, which is short for June 19th, is the day when |
| 2:20.9 | the federal troops arrived in the Galveston, Texas, as many of us may know through history. |
| 2:28.0 | And it's, you know, it's said that Juneteenth is really about the word spreading across the South that slavery was over. |
| 2:39.0 | Technically, it had to do with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. |
| 2:46.5 | Slavery was not technically over because the Emancipation Proclamation was signed before the 13th Amendment |
| 2:54.2 | to the Constitution, but the Emancipation Proclamation did free slaves that were not in the |
| 3:01.3 | Confederate States. So that's a whole other show, a whole other episode that we should talk about |
| 3:07.1 | that because I think a lot of people |
| 3:08.5 | truly believe that the Emancipation Proclamation set a black people in total free or enslaved black people free. |
| 3:17.0 | And it really did not. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in January of 1863. |
| 3:24.3 | And in that proclamation, if you go back and read the language, |
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