(learn more here: juneteenth.com/history.htm)
Some people like to say that 246 years of slavery wasn’t that long, so last year I gave a talk that put the history of slavery into an astronomical context
Here’s that talk
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Slaveowners resisted. And lied
There were enslaved Black people who weren’t told of their freedom until well into the 1960s
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Look at how tiny that green slice of “freedom” is
Don’t you dare tell me that’s it’s been long enough for Black people to be “over” slavery
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To compare, more than 1000 white dudes get physics PhDs every year
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I will be the first black woman ever to get a PhD from my department. That’s unacceptable
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- wealth
- health
- housing
- voting power
- education
- trans-generational psychological trauma
So no, I’m not over slavery
Have a happy #Juneteenth
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