June 19 is Juneteenth, celebrating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the United States learned they had been freed from bondage. As momentum grows to enshrine it as a national holiday, we speak with author and historian Gerald Horne, who says that while the story of Juneteenth is “much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,” increased recognition of the day “provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.”
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We don't put up statues of the Kaiser and Hitler, so why do we put up statues of Confederates?
SOME BLACK LAND OWNERS HAD BLACK SLAVES IN THE SOUTH. AND TODAY´S PROTESTORS NEVER MENTION THIS , AS I GUESS THEY DON´T KNOW AGOUT THIS. IGNORANCE PRESENT IN OUR MISTAKES ONCE AGAIN BY WANTON DESTRUCTION.
Extremely interesting guest
A rooster taking credit for the rising of the sun. Very well said Professor Horne!
A Mexican president of indigenous and African descent abolishing slavery… That's fascinating. I will definitely read more on Vicente Guerrero
and search for other non-white rulers in Latin America after colonization. Thanks for the informative interview.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!!! latinos are together with our African-Americans brothers . It is time this Country celebrated Juneteenth as a National Holiday in America. Is time to stop the killing and police brutality against Blacks, browns. Is time the whole world knows the tragedy been happening in USA, the injustice against our African-American community.
This interview just cancelled America.
Spasibo.historic.
Close your eyes before the historian comes on.
Slavey like lynching is not just in the past as much as people would comfort themselves with the notion
Ho about a memorial day for the thousands that die due to you’re sanctions in other country’s.
You are still colonizer.
If Agent Orange goes to Den Haag, he has to take Obama, Bush, Clinton along.
😭😭✊✊✊✊… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Amen to that. White union soldiers ride in and free the slaves. Had to feel amazing
omg that guy is intellectually unstoppable ✌ havent seen a mind like that in awhile.
Carla Linton. I would like to say Happy Juneteenth. To My Black Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus. A Day Of Black Liberation.
Glory to The Almighty God,whose Mercies fails us not!!! ALL Evils will be exposed and destroyed by CREATOR'S hands VERY soon!!!!
Gerald Horne Needs to give a Good Speaking to one Senator James Clyburn of the Centrists Democrats. To Set His Ass Straight on what the realities of Juneteenth really are. Because it's horrible, that a black man of his supposed importance ISN'T Telling the full and true story.
Juneteenth is a celebration of a victim transforming herself into a perpetrator
Juneteenth celebration is a celebration of colonialism and genocide, it's a propaganda tool to legitimize the on-going genocide of Red Indians in North America