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🗓️ 19 June 2020
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Dr. Greg Carr, head of Africana Studies at Howard University, and Karen Hunter discuss the origins of Juneteenth in this latest edition of #InClasswithCarr. #Juneteenth.
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0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. |
0:10.0 | We're here and this is history right now, right? |
0:12.0 | We're in class with Dr. |
0:13.6 | Great car African-a-kar subscribe hit that like button |
0:17.6 | Juneteenth all right so y'all's president announced that he was going to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, birthplace of Black |
0:26.5 | Wall Street, Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which we talked briefly about here on on |
0:30.8 | this space. To have his first clan rally, I mean his presidential rally on Juneteenth. |
0:38.0 | Now he has since said he's going to cancel, you know, he's postponing it because he didn't realize out of respect for Juneteenth. |
0:46.0 | He didn't realize it. |
0:48.0 | And since everything, since the world has been on fire, the NFL has declared Juneteenth a national holiday. Nike, Nike has |
0:57.4 | declared it a national holiday. They're giving their workers day off. |
1:01.5 | Twitter has a whole yeah they have a whole Juneteenth thing as well. |
1:05.4 | Their Black Twitter space actually went to their Juneteenth celebration last year. |
1:09.8 | It was, you know, red soda and red velvet cake cake it was a lot of fun. |
1:13.4 | Yeah, I actually did that at Twitter last year. |
1:15.8 | So let me just be transparent Dr. Carr. |
1:20.0 | I did not know what Juneteenth was until I think I was in my 30s. I'm from New Jersey as everyone knows I love being from Jersey |
1:29.9 | I didn't celebrate Juneteenth we We celebrated 4th of July. |
1:33.0 | Sure. Like most Americans, like, you know, |
1:37.0 | I grew up in a black household pretty woke, |
1:39.0 | but Juneteenth was not something that we understood or knew or did or talked about. Is that the is that on purpose? |
1:48.0 | It wasn't unusual. It wasn't unusual by then. If we think of Juneteenth in terms of when it has been celebrated and where it has been celebrated |
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