Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

[@defianceforhumanity]

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” ​- Lilla Watson

[@darrellwalker818]

The Caucasoids haven't done anything nor will do anything for descendants or slaves. And will never do anything for descendants of slaves. But keep spitting 💦 them lying 🐍enomous lies. The woke no longer listens. But the God of the Hebrews will address you in full . Genesis 15:13 & 14.

[@donnag7908]

Omg! I have been binging on Clint Smith’s Black history crash course. I have learned more about history in those little clips than I ever did in school.

[@MichaelSharpBLACKDRUMMIKE]

Clint Smith is awesome! I had never heard of him. He taught me many things in this video. Thank you for giving me the chance to learn more by listening to this genius of a man speak!

[@smashingboots]

Clint, a very powerful poem! You are one of my heroes. Keep fighting the good fight. Thank you Amy for showcasing this amazing historian .🙏

[@jeanneshipton4911]

amy, thank you. this is the most powerful journalism I've experienced. this gentleman is a gift. his message changed me. we all must be educated about the significance of juneteenth, and the importance of an accurate account of it's history, the pain, the injustice. reading mr Smith's book will be an honor.

[@dividedconquered3784]

That poem was beautiful and on point! 🌷💚✌️

[@travelingva]

And ignores all of the other oppressed people...namely the hundreds of thousand if not millions of Indian bodies that were dying at the exact same time. If we are going to teach history accurately it can't just be about what happened to blacks and completely ignore the first group which was taken to near extinction...who had their woman sold out to slavery for hundreds of year to white men as well, whose children were taken to boarding school, and who also built this country

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

@@travelingva yeah get on that! You have an important job to do!!! Get out there and educate people on those topics you believe are underrepresented!!! I'm not even joking! How can I help?

[@40bpaula]

Thank you, Clint Smith , for bringing the knowledge. It's the best way to celebrate Jun eteenth. thank you, DN, for uplifting the history of blacks in the U.S. It's the best way to honor Juneteenth.

[@SoupBone-bp1qk]

Thank you for this segment. The true history of the US needs to be taught in schools.

[@paull2166]

The true history is the US ended slavery over 150 years ago. The UN, HRW, Amnesty all report more slavery in the world than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@winning3329]

What true history? You mean like having a blac George Washington and blac Christopher Columbus and the magic marshmallow man?

[@evedavis323]

@Jack Jack I agree, we need to teach our kids real history, most people do not know our history. All Americans have had an impact of making us what we are.

[@corneilusmcgillicuddy]

@@winning3329 Fuck are you talking about?

[@blakebortles6098]

The civil war was fought over who prints the monies of the United States. Not slavery

[@myssie-theanimedevourer5835]

I enjoy hearing from Clint Smith ❤ As a native New Yorker, I learned a lot about northern slavery. 😔 I realized when I moved south just how much education in this country is very broken. I wish everyone sought out information about American history like I do and have shared with my children. As a black American woman, I feel it's my duty to teach my children as best I can our history as Americans, even if this country tries to deny us a place in history. Black American history is out there. It's just in the shadows. Historians like Clint Smith shed light on that history.

[@yt650]

There’s lots of things I don’t disagree on. I think it would be a good exercise for anyone to use KZbin to see some of the words from Dr. Thomas Sowell. It’s quite interesting when you read some of the things he’s investigated regarding slavery. Slavery was a terrible thing, it happened way before the United States was even thought about, it still happens today. There may have been more white slaves than black but not in this country. I use to say you mean to tell me a ship would go along the coast of Africa, the captain would say look there’s some people we can get as slaves. Get in a rowboat row to shore and supposedly the stupid people would stand there and let someone capture them. Never happens like that it couldn’t, these slaves mostly came from the central part of Africa and were sold by their country men mostly to Spanish speaking people but not entirely. There certainly is a lot more but one should investigate for themselves. Sometimes the information favors you and sometimes it doesn’t. I am into truth more than anything. I can assure you no one in my family was ever here until the early 1900s and no one ever owned a slave.

[@myssie-theanimedevourer5835]

@@yt650 🤔 okay.. interesting information here. I will look up this Thomas Sowell and see what I think.. (EDIT: not really the spin I expected to find in my research of Thomas Sowell...hmmm...) However, my issue isn't really with the act of slavery and it happening to black people. Being that I'm of mixed races (African, Indigenous & European descents), I tend to identify as a black American woman because that is how society sees me due to the color of the crayon used to make me. My issue with history education in America is the fact that there is no real heritage a mixed race person that is born in America can learn readily. Questions about my ancestry and histories just go unanswered. I can't trace my ancestors in any of the races I'm made of due to erasure of history and sharing the truth (as you said) in history. I do hope things will eventually get better or the next generations become more inquisitive. 😁

[@jkacz9466]

Myssie, I agree with your assessment completely and my greatest education which is key. Growing up in the south and relocating from New Orleans to Colorado springs for a decade. A tale of two America's! Colorado has the fourth best educational system in the country , and Louisiana is on the bottom. Louisiana is 60 year's behind time, and run with a plantation mentality mindset.

[@myssie-theanimedevourer5835]

@D Legionnaire UH...okay... that's a statement.

[@trenta.958]

Black people are not slaves anymore, why are they still in the US and not Africa?

[@Marxist2]

Happy Juneteenth, everyone! And thank you Democracy Now for this great interview.

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

A holiday for people who are the last to hear they are free??? WTF B.S. holiday is that?? Oh how about a holiday for the May 2020 looting and arson some of these people took part in in Minneapolis - St. Paul?????????????????? THEY MISSED GEORGE FLOYD SO MUCH THEY LOOTED AND BURNED FOR HIM (HE WAS A CONVICTED FELON WHO ROBBED A PREGNANT WOMAN WHILE HOLDING A GUN TO HER STOMACH).

[@gloriouse4458]

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS 🧡 HAPPY JUNETEENTH, EVERYONE 💗

[@eugenehamby7167]

Clint Smith I have to remember his name he was a very interesting guest.

[@elmerkilred159]

Slavery didn't end. They just changed the name. The prison/convict provision left into the constitution made it possible to pack prisons with black people, and it outsourced the overhead costs of maintaining a slave to the state.

[@tmnt10000]

You are justifying murder as a form of slavery. How is someone who chooses to commit murder the same as someone be forced into slavery?

[@livthedream5885]

Very few individuals in the for profit carceral system are there for violent crimes. They are overwhelmingly minor offenses, often drug related ( typically marijuana). Though committed at the same rate between races, arrests for such are over represented in the AA community.

[@winning3329]

I guess Payton Gendron is a slave too because he is in prison by your logic?

[@tealeaflist]

Indeed it did. One difference being that Outsourcing of Human Capital in this way Completely Strips It of both HUMANITY & any PRODUCTIVITY. Sad...

[@elmerkilred159]

@@tmnt10000 I made no claim of justifying murder as a form of slavery. You made that strawman.

[@williambent9636]

A powerful poem. How does it feel to learn in a school named for someone who was willing to fight to the death to prevent you from even being recognized as a human being? I live in Colorado, often considered one of the most liberal states in the West, yet we still have a town named for Chivington, the man responsible for the mass murder of two hundred Cheyenne prisoners of war. Byers is named for a newspaper editor who helped cause this slaughter by running fake news stories that incited the mob who killed these people. Denver has streets named for politicians who did the same. And then there are military bases, such as Fort Carson here, and others across the country named for traitorous Confederate generals. Such names, remembered and honored, dishonor us all.

[@mikemann1960]

Bank of America is top of the list, and Chase has ties to the Nazi movement in 1932!

[@paull2166]

It's staggering to think slavery ended over 150 years ago in America. While the UN, HRW, Amnesty are all reporting more slavery in the world than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@kenlandon6130]

@@paull2166 Well sure but slavery is illegal everywhere now. That doesn't mean that illegal slavery (such as human trafficking) doesn't still take place. Even in the US and "Western countries."

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@paull2166 black codes, Jim crow and mass incarceration weren't 150 years ago and slavery isn't abolished in amerika.

[@strawberrychaos73]

Fellow Coloradan here, and I agree. The reckoning is upon us, and it's time to change. (There was a state order proposed to rename Mt. Evans to Mt. Blue Sky -- but I'm not sure if it passed?)

[@stevemangram]

It's just more symbolism, damn a symbol. We have been celebrating Juneteenth for years, the "official " holiday is simply a way to bring everyone else into our struggle.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Great job as alway's. Keep the truth alive for humanity and the planet and to wake up the masses of the world. ❤ ❤ ❤ 💚 💚 💚

[@kosmikprince6561]

Powerful presentation. Love the broadcast. Excellent poetic expression. Thank you!

[@topgrain]

Like buried treasure, Truth does not fade or tarnish. And it does increase in value.

[@AgsYo]

This was an awesome interview!! Thanks for sharing this wealth of information

[@reginaldbraithewaite5833]

How many histories of New York have you watched and read, and how many times have these crucial details about the origin of the Statue of Liberty, and the changes to its appearance and symbolism relative to slavery, not been included or explained? Clint Smith has definitely gained this new reader, who is about to join the millions he already has.

[@mrsyno1179]

Amy Asking Clint to say a poem is the equivalent of a radio DJ asking a rapper to do a freestyle. Love it

[@AMays-mt6gc]

Fabulous interview....so important to go deep into the understanding of this holiday. Thanks Democracy Now!👏👏👏

[@supaman7799]

This is not a democracy check yo constitution for the republic for witch it stand please look in to this that is part of the trap

[@smartaMartini]

Excellent guest and interview. Thank you.

[@andrewjameshenderson1389]

Brilliant man ! Thanks for this DN!

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@gabe80517]

Thank you for this interview

[@njosborne6152]

Great! Now make Voting a National Holiday🧬😎🇺🇸

[@benjaminvilla5727]

FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. What a concept.

[@LOSTONITALL]

And make it so liberals do not throw votes in the trash on camera again.

[@benjaminvilla5727]

@@LOSTONITALL Donald Trump, thy will be done.

[@njosborne6152]

@@LOSTONITALL sources? Please.

[@MrGPMcMahon]

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the great contributions of the Black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature make them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are fueled by the mix of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nature of these communities, an example of all they have achieved through their enthusiasm for self-improvement by hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would most undoubtedly be poorer as a nation.

[@mystictraveler8642]

Please stop attacking Asian elderly and children. Please stop being so cruel to Korean, middle Eastern businesses. Please stop the racism against innocent Asians.

[@winning3329]

Gary I dare you to move to Detroit

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@mystictraveler8642]

@winning That guy's comment is just very strange. He highlights "their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors".? Really? and "Commitment to academic excellence enriches are our schools"? I mean did he ever look into the education system? Does he not see what's going on? Is he blind ? What strikes me is his comment about "their peaceful and generous nature" It is laughable.

[@sonitawong7993]

We also hope that Asian Bigotry& Racism against others is addressed...

[@cowsandpigsmaketheearthwar1471]

Dear Opal Lee Happy Juneth from June 19 to July 4 and forever and ever peace and love down with disparity up with love

[@lastnamefirstname2390]

Love Clint. I hope you have him on again.

[@lastnamefirstname2390]

@Justin 0ldman u mad lol

[@mcbain1969]

Clint Smith is a good narrator and an important voice. A broader audience needs to hear him. Always good to see him featured.

[@paull2166]

@Justin 0ldman You're absolutely right! It's more of an excuse than anything else. The true history is the US ended slavery over 150 years ago. The UN, HRW, Amnesty all report more slavery in the world than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@thomanderson7981]

Outstanding interview + poem to sum it all up! Kudos to Dr. Smith!

[@thecatsbackyard4833]

What an excellent discussion. I wish the best for this man and his noble cause.

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

That poem tells it all, I will be sure that my grandchildren read his book over the summer. Thank you so much.

[@peanutbutterdragon4105]

I wish we could get together to make this the greatest American Holiday.

[@MrDXRamirez]

What is amazing is that Americans today blindly (indifference or ignorance) or both are patriotic of founding fathers who were in fact slave owners and the 2nd amendment was for them the key to building a slave republic. From 1786 to the Civil War, America was a slave economy that made it necessary to own guns to overcome human resistance to being enslaved, and protect property of the slave holders. From external threats and from living property itself that shall never be armed. A black man could never be armed in America was the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. The age of our ‘forefathers’ was an age of revolution in Europe, 1789, in France, the enlightenment, but two years later in Haiti a major victorious slave revolt kicks off a more repressive reaction by slaveholders in the US. If the government enforced its own decree,---the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865, the right to bear arms would extend to black people, equal to whites, black militias would be legal and the mass incarceration system of blacks exclusively would have no legal basis to exist.

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

Perhaps you are unaware that Black people have militias and that the revolutions you point out in Europe were not revolutions they were white supremacist attacks against their Black Nobility. Since, Black people are the only indigenous people on the planet and have been here since the beginning of time. Who do you really think was ruling in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and the British isles, and Ireland and, Africa, and Asia and the Americas? Do you think white people in Europe were fighting against other white people? Remember, white people are not indigenous to Europe, what has been hidden from view by white supremacists and their supporters is the fact that white people and their cousins are literally pretending to be Black people.

[@machsimillian14]

We're indoctrinated to revere them from school. Many of our early lessons teach us that they were great and infallible almost. Our education system needs some attention.

[@misterlyle.]

The people of the first thirteen colonies were subject to the British king; from that perspective, he was the first slave owner who considered the original territories and their people to be his property. Opposition by the original inhabitants combined with the presence of natural predators made guns necessary. Later, those guns were turned on the forces of the British crown. When the new country was being designed, the founders remembered the importance of those weapons and included the right to have them in the Constitution. Hence, the 2nd Amendment. So many radical concepts were built into the design of the new Constitution of the United States, it was impossible for its full expression to be established at once. We are witnessing that its unfolding continues even after two centuries.

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@drmodestoesq]

@@misterlyle. The British King was not the owner of British citizens. That was decided by the English Civil War a century before the American Revolution. Re: Opposition from original inhabitants. Interesting how the "original inhabitants" did not want half a continent stolen from them. They often resorted to violence to attempt to prevent it.

[@Maryann720]

Juneteenth should b a national holiday. Clint Smith....👏🏽🙏🏽💙

[@Lochtain]

Clint Smith is such a great educator! His Crash Course Black American History is excellent, and has opened my eyes to a deeper understanding by far, as a white European. Both about American history, but also making me question the history I have been taught all my life to a greater degree!

[@paull2166]

The true history is the US ended slavery over 150 years ago. The UN, HRW, Amnesty all report more slavery in the world than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@Lochtain]

@@paull2166 So the prison labour part of the 13th doesn't matter?

[@paull2166]

@@Lochtain OMG, don't get me going on prisons; 12% of the population and over 70% of the crime! What a massive drain on social resources. Oy Vey 🙄

[@Lochtain]

@@paull2166 Really? Do you actually watch Democracy Now, or are you just here to troll?

[@paull2166]

@@Lochtain I have a Nigerian soccer friend. His kids are amazing. They're forbidden from use the phase "African-American" because of its (extremely) NEGATIVE connotation throughout the world (according to him). They're just Americans. The whole family is extremely hardworking like White people. I knew 'black people' throughout the world disliked African-American because of all their excuses, etc., but it's interesting to get that perspective first hand. WOW. Happy fourth of July. ✌️

[@celesterosales8976]

Whoo! That poem is breathtaking, heartbreaking, eye-opening.

[@LaMichiganR]

*Happy Juneteenth!* *Sadly, our "free society," has more people incarcerated than anywhere else in the World.* *There is a lot of work to do to pursue "Liberty and Justice for All," and be aware freedom can be taken away from all of us at any time.*

[@winning3329]

I don't understand why people want to live in the United states if it's so oppressive? If you ain't happy then why don't you leave? The United states will always have white people and its never going to change. The choice is yours if you decide to change your location

[@kwakoushakur1391]

I'd like to see you take white racist FREEDOM AWAY, that is bullcrap......B1 Black people's freedom can be taken away at ANY time primarily because we'er only HALF free.

[@Ezekiel-2517]

"Sadly, our "free society," has more people incarcerated than anywhere else in the World." We also house the most criminals than anywhere else in the world. Don't forget that part. Name another country that has 17 million convicted felons still roaming the streets, committing the same crimes that got them convicted to begin with? YOU CAN'T DO IT.

[@Ezekiel-2517]

The reality is, Juneteenth is a fk'n joke and NO ONE CARES. Guess what has taken place today? VIOLENT GATHERINGS AND SHOOTINGS, in "celebration of "Juneteenth" (whatever the fk that's really supposed to mean).

[@rlud304]

@@Ezekiel-2517 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@justmyopinion9883]

As an African-American descendant of slaves, I would have rather had reparations than a Juneteenth holiday. The reparations for slavery would have more meaning for me. Thank you for sharing this interview with Mr Clint Smith.

[@marcillioficino4663]

Your reparation check just left with the $40 billion they sent to Ukraine,

[@__jonbud______________________]

Parations shouldn't come directly from the fed level, though, so a symbollic gesture is appropriate. If it comes from the fed level, then you've got people who suffered or/and are unrelated to the issue paying into it. 10 or 20 years of tax cuts/exemptions make more sense and incentivizes long term growth and financial habits that have intergenerational benefits. This also has the upside of keeping the benefits away from people who would use the money to the detriment of their community. Of course, I think all this is ill-advised anyways because I don't like racialist laws and think people have weird definitions of who counts as what despite whatever half or the majority of their ancestoral mix is

[@tmnt10000]

Go ask your brothers in Africa who sold your family into slavery, if you are sincere in your convictions.

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@marcillioficino4663 I find it interesting that the USA has plenty of money to send to Ukraine and other countries, but can't find the money for reparations. 😔

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@__jonbud______________________ You raise some good points. There might be some African-American people who would agree with you. I don't. I would prefer my reparations come in a CHECK or DIRECT DEPOSIT. I am old enough to manage my own money and I don't need tax incentives.

[@constancemackenize2919]

To whom much is given much is required. GOD Bless America soooooo America must atone for the history that made it Great. Let set aside our differences and embrace it by telling the truth of the contributions of all who help to make America Great. Atonement share in the wealth that made America Great. The Most High GOD will correct mankind, if mankind refuses to adjust and correct. The battlefield is the domain of The Most High GOD. GOD bless you guys always.Staysafe Ciao for now 🦊

[@bumpyface228]

I see Clint Smith and I click.

[@paull2166]

The true history is the US ended slavery over 150 years ago. The rest of the world has more slavery than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@baldwintheanchorite]

My my mama, How you walkin' low, Your feet may slip and your soul may low Says my soul's got a seat up in the kingdom

[@gloriajackson5827]

Say on Baldwin, say on. 💜

[@anastasiaanderson9487]

Beautiful

[@glascoebowie9359]

You suppose to to study your history to correct your mistakes and study science and the law to correct your mistakes

[@winning3329]

If they correct their mistakes then they can't get money for being a professional victim.

[@glascoebowie9359]

Love is not the same as worship. Love can turn into worship when you love someone and they treat you like BS.

[@Labor_Jones]

*--- A GREAT DAY because FREEDOM is a WIN for HUMANITY! ----* _...... An American Holiday of GREAT IMPORTANCE to every Person in every State, and every country who had their CHILDREN Kidnapped and used like cattle for others to enjoy for personal gain and any other crime._

[@JOEL6780]

All descendants of slaves that were not told of their freedom should be able to seek restitution for work performed after they were freed.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Really? You be in charge of the reparations.

[@shawnchurch316]

I am all for respirations for freed slaves, as long as they are still living.

[@seanharris8419]

Neither feasible or deserving. You probably feel pretty good about yourself when you say stuff like that tho huh?

[@paull2166]

Whites have been paying reparations for decades! The overwhelming majority of blacks live off the government. The government gets their money from hard working White people. 💯

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@seanharris8419 do you know Jew's and Indians receive Reparation.

[@inaramenduno6455]

Powerful poem, statement of truth!

[@deejaybundst1671]

Highly recommend Clint Smith's ongoing Black American History Crash Course series

[@teenah.daughterofYAH]

Black people were so valuable that even when they were set free (by law, not actions) from slavery, the corrupt seeds of wickedness didn't even tell them. Where would this country be without the labor of the people of God. Our true redemption is near, keep the faith on hold fast to the truth. Your true origins and history have been stolen but the Spirit of the Most High will reveal who you are when you diligently seek Him. The Bible is our History Book and we are the people who were scattered to the four corners of the world. Wake up Israelites!

[@fromGhetto2Goddess]

Amazing, excellent & informative interview 💥💥💥

[@Ianpact]

Thank you, Clint and Amy.

[@nicolejackson7212]

Good morning i never heard of him either thank you i learned something this morning thank you mr clint smith need it that very powerful

[@kevinmarshall4965]

Powerful pertinent information that I didn't know....!!!....Wow.....!!!....Thank you father Most High Yah God Of Israel 🇮🇱 Alone The Creator ......I truly appreciate the truth....I'm always seeking the truth and God allowed me to receive it...I truly appreciate my brothas and sistas of Zion for seeking and striving for the truth and knowledge.......!!!....Yahbless...!!!....And may Yah continue to bless us with all the pieces to the puzzle so we will know the true story and history of our people without all the lies that we've been told......

[@gloriajackson5827]

APTTMH~

[@douglasmarvin81]

Thank you very much Amy-Democracy Now, and Clint Smith for this excellent, enlightening, informative episode…………..I felt joy and anger while listening to Clint Smith…………..US banks taking human beings-slaves- as collateral for loans !!!!!……..slaves worth so much to the wealthy, racist, entitled, lazy, white man. ……..talk about bums!!!……..these slave owners………..It is so gauling!!!……….And white, entitled, conservative, republican, cry babies do not want it taught in our history is ………..Guess What?…..It is a part of our history……..not everything, but a major part for over 300 years……………no problem, racists, entitled bigots?….. I believe it is a problem worth addressing intelligently……..imagine shoe is on the other foot………….let us come to some viable understanding of who we were and are!………….Keep up the good work, Amy and Democracy Now!!!….

[@paull2166]

The true history is the US ended slavery over 150 years ago. The UN, HRW, Amnesty all report more slavery in the world than any time in history. I'm very proud of the US and all Western countries for ending slavery so long ago!

[@winning3329]

But I thought you said teaching history was oppressive?

[@paull2166]

@@winning3329 Great comment! They want to change history. The US was the first country in the world to end slavery over 150 years ago. Slavery is rampant in the entire non Western world to this day. That's REAL slavery.

[@deborahbrown4247]

Never Forget!!

[@blakebortles6098]

the civil war was not about freeing slaves , the war was about who prints the monies of the united states .

[@gaim44]

Wrong🤦‍♂Stop reading your southern history books....Bahahah🤣🤣

[@winning3329]

Tribes were selling their own people for monies

[@drmodestoesq]

Funny....all the Confederates say the war was about slavery. I guess they were dishonourable liars and paltroons. And their wives were Jezebels.

[@blakebortles6098]

@@gaim44 you think abe gave a fuck about blk ppl ? think again

[@glascoebowie9359]

They sale you a dream and give you a nightmare

[@kaytucker5128]

Nice job! Very educational and inspiring.

[@glascoebowie9359]

When people pray they say my father in heaven not my king in heaven generation means family sharing means sharing not fighting and competing for for something that has already been given to everyone, it was always a plenty for everyone but you chose to privilege yourselves and invade so you could privilege your selves

[@terriellzey3457]

I’m not opposed to Juneteenth I’m opposed to the small action never taken against white supremacy. We can get a day off every Monday for the whole year but if racism is experienced the other six days all year every year I do not I repeat do not feel nor believe this is an achievement as this is a shame to celebrate a day late and a dollar short. News flash we had already been celebrating Juneteenth. What needs to be done is getting these worthless group of people who are racist and are in power out of there without the taking forever. Democracy is a concept not a practice and as we continue to be deceived by this idea we will be free and given equality equity or whatever qualifies us as human beings because racism is mixed in the recipe and is America to include what had also been done to our indigenous brothers and sisters.

[@wildlightarts]

I wish this Mr. Smith and his words, were more well known than the Celebrity. May it be so.

[@blackbrownbeige55]

FANTASTIC INTERVIEW MY GOD...THIS IS GREAT HAPPY JUNETEENTH 2022 CLINT SMITH AND DEMOCRACY NOW

[@kerrysiah1180]

Amen.

[@kuangoseilah8082]

Enslaved People in parts of South Carolina also didn't find out slavery was over until 1865 as well they got the news in Feburary. Juneteeth is very important.

[@deeramos5763]

God bless her and God bless the president for signing juneteeth.

[@niablackwell3554]

Well said!

[@tmnt10000]

If any of these people cared about slavery, they would not be stuck in the past and actually help people who are slaving around the world. Double standards and narcissistic is what this people come across.

[@winning3329]

They gonna milk the slavery game till the cows come home. The bible says forgive those if you want to be forgiven but they can't forgive for something that they never experienced before they were born.

[@shawnwest4350]

well stop talking about 9/11 stop talking about them fake founding fake fathers stop talking about the civil tell the Jewish to stop talking the Holocaust stop talking about the forth off July stop talking about all y'all white bull shit Holliday's gtfoh

[@maryroxy6250]

Wow Mr. Clint Smith,,,never re-enslaved our Ancestors, wow yes these people were re-slaved,,,,this day is for white people,. We Negros have been celebrating Juneteenth for a hundred years,,, so this holiday is just another day,,,,, give us our REPARATIONS NOW,,

[@travelingva]

There were people living in chattel slavery in Mississippi in the 1950's

[@pamelaatram4175]

Slavery never ended

[@winning3329]

You can always move to another country that you feel is slavery free

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@pamelaatram4175]

@@winning3329 too late we build this bitch now it's ours!

[@strawberrychaos73]

Legalized slavery lives on in private prisons who pay slave wages for labor.

[@winning3329]

Poor Payton Gendron when will he be free from the slavery of prison?

[@drmodestoesq]

You seriously think the prison system pays for itself by selling prison labour? Like back in the days of the Galleys and Chain Gangs?

[@epic6434]

This slavery talk has been profitable. Since Fredrick Douglas wrote his best selling biographies.

[@herahagstoz6934]

Yes 👏

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Corporate Media never FELT a amount of Pain they deserve for what they've done into our society

[@SK-xn1pv]

Corporate media is controlled by government agencies who have used agents as journalists, news anchors, pundits, etc., for many decades; especially after journalists exposed the horrors of war in Vietnam. After murdering JFK, their control has only expanded into every aspect of our daily lives via technology, DARPA created platforms like Google, FB, Instagram, Amazon, etc. used to surveil & manipulate the public.

[@paull2166]

We should have a holiday for the millions of black teenage 'baby mommas'. Bahaha 🤣 And a holiday for the millions of black absentee 'baby daddies' that abandoned their kids. Bahaha 🤣.

[@larryross1819]

Ask Ashli Babbitt about Jan 6, rumor has it that she has strong feelings about the murder of a white woman by a black male cop. That black male cop has been given a promotion and the whacko left wing ding bats think he is a hero. The white woman murdered by the black male cop was not a threat to anyone. At worse she was trespassing. What if a black man was murdered by a white cop on Jan 6, would the liberals feel the same? Would the country have riots all summer by BLM and Antifa, and have the riots deemed mostly peaceful by the media?

[@glascoebowie9359]

We suppose to be family and neighbors not kings and Queens and Impires

[@peanutbutterdragon4105]

I like her Ideas

[@jstevenj1]

Wow I didn't know about the chains bro, thanks...

[@lloydrobinson6480]

REPARATION NOW. ADOS

[@drmodestoesq]

For the ill treatment and theft of Mexican land as well. ADIOS.

[@kwakoushakur1391]

REPARATIONS Last Year.... B1

[@truthmatters3717]

Awesome!!

[@libbyadams7057]

Are we really free

[@akbarfarzin9857]

In fact Not Really!!! They took your different way that you didn’t notice it !!!!! Thanks 🙏

[@walterkeith3711]

For all those Republicans who think the parties didn't switch they did

[@diankreczmer6595]

But how come it isn't called June 19th.?

[@gaim44]

Because June 19th was already taken🤦‍♂

[@diankreczmer6595]

@@winning3329 but if it was called June 19th, it would coincide with July 4th, also a freedom day!

[@bigg4940]

I am so tired of symbolism!!! REPARATIONS! Every other group is getting financial aid from the United States government! Ukraine refugees are going to pass Black Americans in wealth in about 5 to 10 years.

[@jumalongo8021]

It is interesting that enslaved people is referred to rather then enslaved Africans, which they were..

[@victoriadime9057]

ITS NOT A “NEWLY CREATED” HOLIDAY MA’AM! (The shade is wild af!..put respect on our ancestors! )

[@georgiatodd7093]

It is not Africans liberation it is Foundational Black Americans holiday

[@reverendbStaard]

The President of my university (Eastern Washington University) refused to recognize MLK Day as a federal holiday when it first appeared; classes continued as normal instead of being closed for all other federal holidays. We saw H. George Frederickson as the disrespectful swine he was later proven to be... but Eastern Washington is a bit too close to Hayden Lake, Idaho, for diversity to be recognized there even today.

[@paull2166]

LOTS of new "holidays" have to be vetted, otherwise every other day would be a holiday, like "Juneteenth". Bahaha 🤣

[@gaim44]

@@paull2166 Your right christmas should be vetted....Bahaha🤣🤣

[@ricketdykes3329]

I forget the edition of Texas's history text book it is in.However that book claimed That General Gordon Granger came to Galveston Texas in 1864. But supposedly forgot to tell the inslaved that they were emancipated.The reason is ,Granger was so drunk that he did "supposedly" didn't remember.Great poem.

[@gloriajackson5827]

R E A L L Y ?...W O W. 🤔

[@INFJ595]

Without proper implementation of higher education, no holiday will achieve your goals. It's all on you.

[@sonitawong7993]

No Racist actions against us will achieve our goals...That is the bigger problem...

[@jamesflaherty822]

every time there is a holiday like this, including LABOR DAY. all the rich MFs get a paid holiday. but working people like me loose a days wages because we are not allowed to go to work. IT STINKS.

[@karenjohannessen8987]

@Democracy Now, @Clint Smith: *Show us the Broken Shackles!* They're "cleverly hidden, so you can only see them from a helicopter" - and YOU'VE got the Helicopter!

[@nixxnott2905]

educational 🧠🥊

[@glascoebowie9359]

Mind over time you have a long time to think about what you did.

[@kltz78]

When are you going to have Thomas Sowell on?

[@drmodestoesq]

Left winger: Who's Thomas Sowell? Why would they have a racist, conservative White guy on who comes from a rich White family?

[@timothykramer2551]

We don't need any more holidays do only holiday I'm going to share with my family is God's birthday and one he had passed in our country

[@winning3329]

You mean God's son's birthday

[@drmodestoesq]

@@winning3329 He's a Trinitarian. Like the vast majority of Christians.

[@altonspooner4951]

Bravo Bravo

[@winning3329]

Bravo is a Spanish word so stop being a culture vulture

[@nicolejackson7212]

Democracy i love it

[@donstrong1717]

The gentleman said "people are saying we didn't want Juneteenth to become a national holiday, we wanted voting rights, we wanted police reform, we wanted abolition," but he left out the most important one of all that we want and that is (reparations), (reparations)!🤔💰I'll tell you what we don't want, a bunch of symbolic offerings that doesn't give us anything(🥚)

[@briceburford3377]

On that day every Black person needs to March for reparations, other than that there is nothing to celebrate.