What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- An excerpt of our video, “What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?” written by Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio, and directed by Rémi Cans, Atypicalist.
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Nice graphics and animation. Very educational for those of us that do know and those that dont
Actually, it's only illegal for private people to own slaves. The state is still allowed to legally own slaves.
Source?
@@hannibalburgers477 The 13th Amendment (seriously)
Happy Juneteenth!! 🎉
It's so sad that it's taken us this long to officially recognize something so enormous, but I'm thrilled to see it happening.
Happy to be born on Juneteenth ❤️
Right, its all about you
Happy birthday 🎂
I actually forgot what Juneteenth was. Happy Juneteenth everyone!
Exactly why I think “Juneteenth” is such a terrible name for this holiday
Really? No one seems to forget the 4th of July...
Cinco de Mayo?
May the 4th?
Hmmm I wonder what's different. It can't age of the holiday. Juneteenth is almost 160 years old now.
@john2g1 It's probably more about the fact that I'm not in the US....and Juneteenth is an odd name. I have horrible memory anyways.
@@sahasrakondapalli50 I guessed as much... Just giving you grief.
Freedom and justice for all.
Honestly, I think it should be called Abolition Day, Emancipation Day, or Freedom Day.
Alas! They aren't so catchy
@@SureshKrishna5 That is fair, but you wouldn't accidently mistake them for the anniversary of Stonewall... I mean, it's in the middle of Pride Month, so I would naturally think that it has something to do with LGBTQ+ people.
@@jonathanstern5537 Interesting perspective. I get it.
@@jonathanstern5537wow you take pride month really seriously. Anything that happens in june you automatically associate with LGBT? Fathers day must be a little awkward for you 😂
Emancipation day was January 1st.
So... y'all are why my direct deposit ain't hittin' on Wednesday like it normally does.
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Dec 6th = Emancipation Day. Slavery in Union states persisted beyond Juneteenth (a Texan holiday). But Republicans eventually freed the slaves on both sides of the Mason-Dixon.
I like how you said the Republicans which I hope you know at that time were actually the liberal party (deocrats) until WW2 when they switch.
@@ANCIENTWARRI0Ractually the switch happened when feuds between Roosevelt and then president Taft split the party in 1912. This split ultimately caused the 1912 election to go to Woodrow Wilson, who embraced progressive ideas.
@@stellaleicht4035 yes I should have said the Great Depression When the economy crashed in 1929, the Republican president, Herbert Hoover, opted not to intervene, which pissed off the American public. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sensed the need for
He campaigned on a promise of government intervention, financial assistance, and concern for the welfare of the people. He won the 1932 election by a landslide. It was FDR’s campaign policies that caused a major shift in party ideologies. Party supporters started switching parties.this is what I was thinking but hey if if the 1912 go for that.
@@ANCIENTWARRI0RI like how you don’t actually know history and show your bias online
We've always celebrated, but now we get paid....thats a plus
Never heard of it before this year.
So my birthday is a Holliday in the US nice
Sorry but not sorry, it’s not about you. You’re being narcissistic. Juneteenth is way more important than any one person. 🌝
@@krokodyl1927 An american calling someone narcissistic, that's hilarious
Will anyone mention the 600,000 people who died to free the slaves ?
Did it really take until 2021?
Until 2021 for the federal holiday. It's been a Texas state holiday since 1980. And celebrated as an unofficial holiday in many states since the 1860s.
hmm i’m from texas and i’ve never celebrated this didn’t even know it was a holiday
What a beautiful holiday ❤
I didnt actually know about this. Thank you for educating!
Unfortunately, slavery occurred throughout the entire world. Tibet’s slavery was only abolished during 1950’s.
Damn what's with all the dislikes?
Does...the TED-Ed audience think ending slavery was bad?
What it ultimately boils down to, though they'd never admit that.
I think its because of George Floyd poster in the animation. Some hates the supports for him because he's a criminal.
Only the media would name something "juneteenth"
@@GuitarZombie then what is it actually called?
@@GuitarZombie you didn’t watch the video
I love the video overall.
The narrative is excellent. It is important for all Americans to understand why this is such an important holiday.
The only problem I have is with the addition of the (apparently confederate) statue being torn down. I disagree with that whole idea, as it seems antithetical to the inclusive spirit of the holiday.
After the civil war, all former confederate soldiers were granted status as US military veterans. This was intended to help heal the division among the states. Tearing down monuments of former confederate soldiers is defacing/destruction of US national monuments.
I’m sure it was not an accident that this detail was added, but it shows glaring bias in an otherwise informative, unbiased educational video.
you got there on June 19th which is Juneteenth, the end of slavery in Texas.
But I don’t get a day off in June.
Yes I wish people had off 😢
Thats awesome....i just showed up at a dr. Appt and they were closed so finding out this awesome thing from our history and that its now a holiday is so cool!
Why are the men shorter than the women in the infographic?
It happens sometimes
Why does it matter?
A another day to kill each other
Hope everyone is doing good. Sending support and hearts! ❤️❤️❤️ Stay safe everyone! Juneteenth is a great holiday!
Happy Juneteenth !
Happy juneteenth
Sucks that I still have to work
It was a different town on a different day he did this. Some mailman showed up to a little town on that day to deliver the news weeks after General Granger marched through the streets in a different part of the state.
Juneteenth
Looks like libyan flag 😮 🇱🇾
Typically the Ted Ed’s I watch are 3-6 minutes. I feel like there is a lot of info that is missing from this video that could’ve be covered in 3-6 minutes and give a much better understanding of the history and importance of Juneteenth. Let’s try again and see if we can do better. I believe you can!
And a continued pledge to selectively remember the past 😅
Love you, TED-ED
happy juneteenth everyone!!
It’s the month for Father’s Day
Yesirrr
Now it's pride teeth😂😂
Freedom for all? What about the native americans Where's all their holidays? Has no one ever heard of the trail of tears? the native american culture That suffered the most in america But yet everyone sweeps them under the rug because they're population is so low. They're dying out as a culture And a people
Why do you need to what-about this? Why not commemorate both? Americans barely struggle to stop celebrating columbus day which was unhistorical and recognize the land already had people.
@Pistachios36 Which is a repurposed version of the previous Columbus Day
Free-ish since 1865.
The outrage fever towards the holiday will die down soon enough. It always does.
It's nice that it's a federal holiday, but it has a terrible name.
It said to continue the memory of the past and at the same time in the video, They're pulling down statues. That doesn't really help. People remember that slavery was terrible. But removing icons that are associated, you're just going to replace it with a holiday, and people are going to forget. 😢
if we have a holiday celebrating the end of slavery, and we removed statues of Confederate generals, what exactly are we forgetting that you wish we weren't?
I don't think people forget about stuff just because there aren't any statues of it. Statues are for memorializing things/people in a positive light. There aren't any statues of a ton of historical events, yet we remember them through various, more helpful means like texts, artifacts, stories, photos, paintings, etc.
they need to come up with a better name
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This holiday means nothing outside of the USA and very little within it.
Why do you think so?
What you mean is that you don't know anyone to whom this holiday has any importance 💅🏾
“This holiday means nothing outside of the USA” what a worthless statement. Do you think anyone cares about Independence Day or MLK day outside the US?
It means so little that you decided to comment.
I mean, it's an American holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in America ... why should it? The Fourth of July doesn't mean anything to foreigners either 😅
As a Canadian, I didn’t know such a day existed. I just find it contradictory that we want to use this day to remember, but remove a statue that serves as remembrance. Shouldn’t history be remembered, good or bad, and bad mementos be treated as products of their time instead of frowned upon?
The problem with this take is it ignores the actual reason confederate statues were erected: racism.
Perhaps you have some merit to your questions, but I think statues are generally considered to be objects of reverence of the past for modern peoples of society. I’m also not sure what the true or actual significance of statues is. We have museums and textbooks used in schools to explain what happened in the past and who the major figures were. Maybe the figures who don’t exemplify what America stands for today shouldn’t be literally put on a pedestal. Why do we need statues in the first place, if not just to remind people that a certain historical person should be remembered in a virtuous light? Imo, removing statues of confederate generals from the very open, general public, like in parks or streets, is a good thing. Reserve these figures for the textbooks and museums, along with a historical statement on who they were, what they stood for, why it was wrong, and how we’ve learned from their mistakes.
Statues as a whole shouldn't even exist. Behind every leader's great accomplishments there was a group, team, or nation behind them supporting or aiding them in succeeding. A statue is simply a project of vanity that only obfuscates the achievements of the people that helped the person represented on it.
@@stellaleicht4035 No, support from people of the time. Because yes, people supported them. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would rather have a statue with an added board mentioning all the horrible crimes they committed than have it removed. Otherwise, it seems like we're trying to push history under the rug and clean it. The most important example of that philosophy I can think of is Auschwitz being turned into a museum so we never forget and never go down that road again. Anger says it should have been demolished, but it wasn't, and I think that's a good thing. Just because we remove all traces doesn't make history disappear. Let's never forget past crimes and injustices.
*Edit: Someone explained to me the difference in treatment between a building or monument and a statue. I hadn't considered that. So my view changed on the matter, but most of my comment remains true.
@@aworm I understand better now. I agree with everything you said. So it's the fact it's a statue and not any other historical monument. I think I can better rally under that. I used the example of Auschwitz being turned into a museum so we never forget, but the actual equivalent would be to still have a statue of the mustache guy I can't name because of RUclips... I understand. Thank you for explaining.
Silly holiday
Its a fake holiday.
By what metric?
@@alxbran by the "my fragile white feeling were hurt" metric.
all holidays are fake bozo
Is this blm 2.0?
Ridiculous and unnecessary
I mean that's what ur mom called you last night, but we keep you around anyways.
Unnecessary? What an odd descriptor for a holiday.
I respectfully disagree
It just seems strange to celebrate America's end to slavery when
1. We were late to end slavery when compared to basically every other powerful, modernized (for the time period) country
2. We had to engage in the bloodiest war in our history to make it happen
It just seems like a mark of shame rather than something to celebrate. Like, "Hey look we ended slavery eventually and only when held at gunpoint."
The shame is the GOP who wish slaves were never set free and ban books about slaves.
Nothing is ever good enough? America ended slavery…. Oh but they didn’t end it earlier!
If America is so bad then why does slavery still go on in Africa, the middle east, India and China?
The 13th amendment did not abolish slavery, it’s just called incarceration now.
@@zUJ7EjVD Prisons for profit is where the US houses more blacks then anywhere on Earth.
It took a Civil War. The Democrats wouldn't not give up their slaves..
But after the war the Democrats started Gun Laws, segregation, KKK, ect.
Except its not important and no one celebrates it.
Move it down to a day instead of a month. I like that
Why is it important? Good question. It isn't.
Well you really aren’t important! Look something “similar “.
it's a holiday none of them are important
They just want more days off.
They don’t even work
Happy Juneteenth!!