Juneteenth Discussion

The crew share their experiences and they also talk about 45's ridiculous comments about the Texas state holiday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, guys, we talked about it earlier. Today is June teenth.
Now juneteenth is the holiday celebrating the commemoration of ending slavery. Okay,
On June nineteenth, Back in eighteen sixty five, General Gordon
Granger arrived with Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, and announced
to enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended

(00:22):
and they were free. This was more than two years
after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, two years after what we
was Gordon doing? What was Gordon doing? That's what I
want to know for them to ye, where was he himself?
They knew, Yeah, they knew. They didn't want to end slavery.

(00:43):
They didn't want free labor, didn't want to end slavery.
Slavery lasted even after June teenth, Yes, it did, especially
when Leagan got shot. Everything changed. Yep. Growing up in Chicago,
we didn't hear about it until I spent time in Texas. Yeah,
when I'm I mean, I was born in Chicago, But

(01:03):
when we moved to Houston. Um, when I was in
like middle school, I learned about it because of Galveston.
You know, Tommy and Junior. You know, Houston is so
close to Galveston where it happened, Texas. It's a big Yeah,
it's a big parade. MLK Day, it's huge. Warbecue is

(01:25):
going up. Yeah yeah, big family holiday. But can you
imagine you've been working for two years and you've been
free for those two years, and you find that, yeah,
you do. I mean, you know the way our people
have been treated for years. I mean why we are
where we are where we are? Right? Okay, But that

(01:47):
was no I was gonna say, I'm sure you guys
heard about this. To President Trump. Uh, it's taking credit
for Juneteenth. Uh, it's popularity anyway, saying he made um,
saying he deserves credit for making Juneteenth popular. About it,
He told the Wall Street Journal that no one ever

(02:09):
heard of the holiday before he brought it up. No
One never heard of No one never heard of a
president going in the bunker. That's what the hell we
never heard. He said, I made June teenth very famous.
What he should have said was, I've never heard of

(02:30):
June teenty. No one I associate with has ever heard
of Juneteenth, And since I mentioned it to all of them,
I should get credit for informing them of Juneteenth. A
lot of people knew about June tenth. Trump, you didn't,

(02:52):
And you want to get credit from making it popular, right,
it isn't election years later after? Are you kidding me?
Anything he can do but you won't credit for that?
And why are these black people that keep going to
the White House talking about he's done so much for

(03:14):
African Americans, mister President, I'm telling you you're doing it.
I was sitting there watching these five black people and
I just wanted to ask him, Just tell me what
has he done? Just tell me what he's done that
black people ought to be so happy about. Well, Steve,
the President himself just told you that he made Juneteenth

(03:35):
very famous. So that's that's one. Let me tell you
what he hasn't done, Okay, doing this whole uprising of demonstration.
He has done nothing, as supposedly the leader of the
United States, to make anybody feel better about it in
any way. Nothing. He has not come out to address

(03:55):
the nation in this up evil in turmoil. And when
it was just to COVID, he was talking every day
till that number got too high and he said his
ass down somewhere and decided not to talk about COVID
no more. Because this is getting out of hand. Well,
we're getting close to two hundred thousand dells. Wow, And

(04:16):
Florida just had a little over three thousand cases of
COVID shape in one day, highest day rate of admitted
COVID cases since the pandemic started. That's I'm saying, it's
slowing down, and it's thirteen states are reporting increased numbers
of COVID. It doesn't matter what he's saved, right, scientist,

(04:44):
and he don't tell the truth. Right. Going up next
the nephew here with today's prank phone call. Right after this,
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