Oof, that was a heartbreaking match. My heart goes out to El Tri and everyone rooting for them. England mounted a hell of defense with a player down.
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Texas' public schools in the 1970's and 80's didn't teach about Juneteenth, and I'm sure they don't now if they ever did. And private schools will never teach it.
The only time white kids in Texas like me even heard about Juneteenth was the ads for the Budweiser SuperFest at the Cotton Bowl which would occasionally air on local TV.
When I asked my mom what Juneteenth was, she feigned ignorance.
The schools taught us that Reconstruction was a period of corruption. They didn't explain that the so-called Texas Revolution was fought so that white Texans could enslave people (which was banned by Mexico.)
So yeah, Texas needs a Second Reconstruction.
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioHey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?
Happy Juneteenth!