Comments on: From Texas With Love - JUNETEENTH

By: Arwen

Arwen — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:03:39 +0000

I only learnt about Juneteenth this year as well, wish I'm pretty ashamed about. Although I live in the UK, most US holidays get talked about on UK news. Not this one. I was pleased to learn about it, but sad because of the way in which it became so well known.

I hope change is for real. I'm signing and listening and learning.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:55:52 +0000

In reply to Lawrence Bertsch. Thank you Adriene. I live in Australia and only heard of Juneteenth this month, first from Seth Godin, then on our TV news, now here. Thank you for taking the time to explain it and bring it to light!

By: Zoraida

Zoraida — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:54:06 +0000

Thank you for this post, Adriene. I am embarrassed to admit that I was not aware of the Juneteenth day until recently.

By: Sarah Bowman

Sarah Bowman — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:51:18 +0000

In reply to Mrs Jacqueline R Walker. What is happening to these women in the article you share is wrong and sad. Thank you for sharing this with all of us, Jacqueline. Sadly, there are still many enslaved people all around the world. We all need to keep fighting for freedom AND equality for everyone. It is a massive problem but there are many, many of us that believe in equality. We all need to do what we can, where we can, and keep going.

By: Sarah Bowman

Sarah Bowman — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:39:19 +0000

In reply to Teresa Ginsberg. Hi Teresa, you might be interested in reading some of Adriene's Sunday Weekly Letters where she has talked about this more. You can read some of her letters here on the website.

By: Teresa Ginsberg

Teresa Ginsberg — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:32:56 +0000

I agree it should be a Nat’l holiday, I wish you would dive deeper and say the names of the black people killed by white cops. My daughter’s and I are doing a lot of reading, a lot of Yoga by Adriane classes, and it’s awakening so much in me, I tried Stand Up Paddle Yoga, and I’m 57, and slightly chubby, I couldn’t have done it without you, but the email about Int’l yoga day, a solstice and a full moon, could have had a mention of compassion toward oppressed people.

By: Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:48:22 +0000

Amen

By: Sandra Corr

Sandra Corr — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:05:17 +0000

I agree. Juneteenth should be a National Holiday. Thank you, Adriene, for your post -- simple and sweet. It should just be. Why we don't commemorate something so important for so many lives is typical in America when it is not white lives. And even more typical when we are trying to deny our history in order to propagate the idea that we are so great as we are, that Manifest Destiny was a good thing, and that everyone is equal under the law -- so much mendacity in America.

Finally, we are standing up with our Black brothers and sisters to tear down the lies of white America and perhaps make real reparations to communities and to its people who have suffered at our hands.

By: Shelly Warden

Shelly Warden — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:37:32 +0000

Yes! For sure! But also incorporate the learning component ... around Juneteenth, Tulsa 1921, lynchings and so much more. Time for us white folk to awaken to black history because it is OUR history.

By: Helen (charles)

Helen (charles) — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:28:07 +0000

I love your honesty and conscious move towards reparation and recognition of the slave trade and slavery per se in your country. There is no such day as Juneteenth in the UK as most people are unaware of British colonial involvement in what is called the “Triangular Trade” - British Isles to Africa to Caribbean/Americas and back to Britain. Slaves were kept on the other side of the world mainly apart from those brought here to service their owners in Bronte/Jane Austen society. So it is with joy that I read your missive which affords hope - in my own lifetime - and the possibility of further recognition and self-learning (we still don’t teach Black History in schools but we are allowed to be Black every October - Black History Month). Thank you for finding out about your Texan history. You must be proud to live where Juneteenth was made the first national holiday in the US. I would be too. ✊ Helen (charles) xx