June 19, 2024 • 22 mins
Did you know that Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States? Even though it’s a holiday celebrating freedom, many people don’t understand what it’s all about. We think we can change that by talking about Juneteenth and its significance. How can we help to educate and inform others about the holiday? What can we do to make sure that everyone understands the meaning of Juneteenth?
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Yo, it's your boy Quincy Murdoch.
(00:02):
And you're now tuned in to another episode
and not just music podcast where we keep it real and honest always.
All right, what's going on, everybody?
Not just music podcast.
Another home so welcoming and pushing a Juneteenth edition.
(00:23):
Today is a little different.
Oh, hopefully everybody understands that.
Juneteenth is officially a holiday for US
citizens and considerably.
Has a lot of meaning.
(00:44):
For those that didn't know considerably that Juneteenth is marks,
what we consider second Independence Day.
Oh, it's been celebrated off of years and years and years and years and years
and years and years and years, but nobody ever actually paid it any.
(01:06):
Attention and make it an official government day until two years ago.
Quincy Murdoch in the building.
What's going on, bro?
Was I in the man?
What you feeling about that?
What is your?
What was your take on Juneteenth before the actual marking of the date?
(01:29):
What was your understanding of what Juneteenth stood for?
I'm going to be 100 with you.
Me being an artist, I used to just get offers to perform at these Juneteenth events.
And, you know, it was just a lot of, you know, concession stands and,
you know, people selling stuff, black folks.
But I never knew what it meant.
(01:50):
But all I knew was there was a lot of black folks getting together.
Sometimes even other races, you know, come into events and it was music.
I was always, you know, given the opportunity to perform at some of these
things like Salisbury, for example.
But I never knew the the the meaning behind it, you know, to keep it 100.
(02:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
It's it's a.
It's a slept on.
Yeah, it's it's it's slept on.
It's slept on. Yeah. There you go.
That that's I mean, it's again, people didn't know it's the second independence day
in independence, an independent day that's marked for African Americans.
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Just because.
It's historical.
Let me give my best example of what I mean by especially affects
if it affects the culture in a lot of different ways.
Some look at Independence Day, July 4th is the day that we gained our independence.
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But it really wasn't for us.
Really wasn't for African Americans.
On a lot of people knew it to be as, you know, we just going to celebrate
this one day, July 4th, Independence Day, you know, go out, cookouts,
you know, fireworks, all that whole nine.
(03:20):
That was fun.
Yeah, celebrating.
Yeah.
When nobody know we celebrate.
Yeah. And if it's realistically, if it's realistic to say, and it's nothing wrong
with those that do go along with the hype of just, you know, any of those
any of those holidays that they really don't know about or looking into the
details, understanding those holidays, they probably would never know.
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No, Juneteenth has a very big, very big, very, very, very, very, very big
meeting. And just as July 4th, Juneteenth, say Wednesday, you know, is,
is, is well, it'll be Wednesday.
We're shooting this today on a Monday.
But again, it's a blessing to say that we finally have a holiday that marks
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an official date to us having our independence.
One reason being, of course,
got a roll over to understanding the history of it.
You know, history of it got erased.
Just like all the rest of Black history moments that we
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don't know about.
You got erased.
Nobody wanted to talk about it.
Nobody wanted to be specific about it.
But you hear people saying, you know, we don't have a Juneteenth.
That's like you say, you know, people will invite you to come to these events
and they don't even give any detail to what's going on and why you're at.
Yeah. Now that you say that, they never made it.
They never explained what Juneteenth was.
(04:49):
No introduction into Juneteenth.
I'm like, man, what?
Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't go into detail on what Juneteenth
really could mean.
And especially the ones that was in Charlotte, Charlotte never really
ever gave official meaning to what Juneteenth could really be and what it
could really mean. Now, I know for a fact.
(05:10):
You know, as you something, yeah, you think you think some people know what it
is, but they're like.
Kind of scared to put it out there because Black, Black people, you know,
and even Black people are kind of scared to celebrate Blackness because of the
reception of another race or other people outside.
(05:32):
So they might not get as many people to console it so they don't want to make
it Black, Black, but it's really about us.
You think?
Is that?
Or is it just lack of education?
You do you what you said one and two.
You just said it's a lot of politics.
It's a lot. I mean, it's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot to understand on it.
(05:55):
But it's really simplified in a sense.
But for the most part, the reason why I feel it's not like known about it's
because it's really it's a simple.
It's something that can be simplified and taught just like how, you know,
how we talk about independence day July 4th.
It could be it could be just as simple as that.
And just let's let's do a little small detail on it just because I wasn't going
(06:16):
to read this, but I just want to say because we're just really talking about
a post emancipation period known as reconstruction in 18 from 1865 to 1877.
Marked an era of great hope, uncertainty and struggle for the nation as a whole.
Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools,
run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders
(06:42):
for compensation, given the 200 plus years of enslavement.
Such changes were nothing short of amazing.
Not even a generation out of slavery.
African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country.
So Juneteenth marks the country's second day of independence.
Although that's our real that's our real independence, not July 4th.
(07:06):
Our real one is.
Here you go.
Juneteenth.
So the historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of never giving up hope
in uncertain times.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a community
space where the spirit of hope lives on a place where historical events like
Juneteenth are shared in new stories with equal urgency are told.
(07:29):
So if you're in that area where the National Museum of African American
History is, if you're there in that area, take advantage of it.
That's something great to learn.
I mean, it's a lot of stuff to really push when it comes to Juneteenth.
But one of those things is when those communities that are trying to push it,
(07:49):
y'all should go check that stuff out.
Go look into it.
I mean, it's I mean, it's going to be a lot of stuff online across the board.
Right.
So don't look in.
Don't look don't look in the shorthand manner.
Look in the little hand.
It's a lot.
I can say it's a lot to speak on.
And I'm going to give this one little detail to.
And it's good.
And it's good.
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And it's good.
And it's good.
Big names are bringing attention to it too.
Because I see Kendra Lamar is doing like a little festival on Juneteenth.
You know, so, you know, being a big name.
Like that, it'll make people want to research and look into it.
Like, what is Juneteenth?
So shout out to the ones with these big names is bringing attention to it.
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You know what I'm saying?
Shout out to Kendra Lamar for doing that.
Because like you say, our history, you know, some of this stuff is swept under the road.
Yeah.
You know, so it's good to have somebody his statue.
You know, still remember that, you know, even though he don't even have to remember it,
you know, in his mind, if you don't want to, all that money and fame.
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But he still know where he came from.
So that's big.
So knowing, knowing where you come from and knowing how you were raised,
things of that nature really play a big role in the society we live in today,
knowing that stuff like that.
So we can celebrate it the correct way.
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Right.
I feel a lot of the holidays and stuff that we celebrate can get mixed up.
And we can kind of fall into a lane where we really don't have to celebrate
those holidays, but we tend to do it because it's just what goes along with job holidays.
You off on that day, most people off on those days.
So they don't have nothing to do.
So they just end up in a celebration manner.
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Yeah.
But the one more detail to this was the Juneteenth marks the day in 18 day in 1865.
And slaves were free, right?
Yeah.
They were asleep.
Well, whatever.
So that that that kind of changes.
That's what changes what independence for July 4 stands for versus Juneteenth stands for.
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You know, it's it's different.
You know, is the OK.
How they try to and we go.
Hey, we go harder for July 4th, right?
We go hard.
Always.
And as I and for years, that's because.
Yeah, just because I had we had that's the.
And that's the only day we have and we couldn't get it to celebrate it or serve as.
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A holiday.
It's a holiday until just recently.
So, you know.
People pushing for it finally paid off.
So that's a good thing.
Now to make it be prominent as all these other holidays is going to be just as key.
So, you know.
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Me, this is what I feel.
And this is something that I know that we we have the opportunity to do it because it's it's a hand.
So, along with this episode and then along with a couple other things that I'm going to do on the website.
That's going to be basically just an.
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Basically, an honor to Juneteenth.
Just so it's it's it's looked at.
And so that's it in a sense of this is a big versus just looking at it as a like this should be looked at as small.
And remember, we don't have holidays as African Americans.
This is our holiday.
And we we go through a whole year of different holidays that really have nothing to do that
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put us in a position to where it's us and in taking history to another level.
Like always with my black history shirt.
I ain't got tired of this shirt yet.
Black history and we talk about black history.
We're talking about is American history.
That's the big thing about this shirt.
Black history is always right to hold on, you know, selling my black folks to hold on out there.
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So if it's a thing, oh, yeah, if it's a thing where we're making history,
here's our chance to make history in a sense where it could be looked at and served as something positive versus a negative.
You know, we have good stuff going on. Yes.
But again, you know, let's not make the June team holiday.
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You know, let's not make it into a thing of this could be a thing of a weird holiday.
You know, black folk can tend to make things weird.
And we talked about that before, man.
They changed some change the narrative out of something quick.
So we got to watch.
Oh, yeah.
Know how they look at us.
So that's another thing.
Be careful out here rolling around on June team today, basically, because you catching this day.
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Y'all be careful.
Take take advantage of knowing when to do things and do it the right way.
If you're celebrating, celebrate and be free.
Who you're around to you around, you know, you might check the racism and all that
because they might they might know the details of it, you know, and you you might not.
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So I hope you all tuned in.
If you didn't know the history that this was an important day for black
African-American slaves, man.
You know what I'm saying?
Black American period.
Yeah, us Americans do have this this foe, two of one more thing, especially
coming with African-Americans.
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Remember, the holiday is considerably for what it was.
Don't celebrate it for what you in your feelings of today.
Take celebration, take celebratory to a certain extent, you know, be humble
for what the day is, you know, if you didn't, you know, you're getting your thing,
you doing your thing, yeah, do your thing.
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But at the same time, be humble, be humble about it, man.
We have an opportunity as black people now and we finally are free from something.
And it's not the case that we're completely in this great place.
It's not saying we're in a great place, but we didn't they didn't.
We were we far from what we were.
Yeah, we didn't have they didn't have a celebration back then.
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Yeah, they couldn't celebrate.
We need no celebration.
Yeah, no celebration at all.
Yeah, that was we have the opportunity to do it.
So let's respect it.
You know, you standing on your grandparents and your grandparents,
grandparents and your grandparents, grandparents, grandparents, shoulders.
And you have the opportunity to make it look good.
So, um, I'm I'm feeling a little, you know, bad, though,
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about one thing and the one thing I'm bad, I feel because if it was a thing
to be served, you know, the people that it should serve, they didn't get to taste it.
You know, that's the only thing that I don't like.
We're we have that opportunity to celebrate it for them.
Yes, but they didn't have this opportunity, you know, that they didn't
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want to actually was in the field and was doing it.
You know, to taste it.
Yeah, to be able to taste it the way we taste it now.
You know, so I try to savor stuff differently.
And some of us only appreciate it.
You know, I take it in like I supposed to be taking in.
So yeah, that make it that make you want to appreciate it.
It changes and it changes.
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Yeah, it changes your outlook.
And I'm blessed to say that it can be, you know,
given to people versus we get we're given this opportunity.
So like unlike anybody else, we are already given in a positive light
versus giving it a negative light
because the case of we're speaking on in a positive mentality.
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Last thing I want to ask you
with even moving forward
with black topics and black, you know, being a black mentor,
being a black story and being a black content creator,
being black in your position that you're in.
Remember, do you remember when you were at a point
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where you didn't understand how or when or or the direction
you would be moving like just say you go back five years?
Did you think that you'll be talking about black topics?
Were you talking about black topics? No.
No. And I'm going to say this, like, you know me, bro.
Like, you know, like I put my heart into everything that I do.
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Like the music, you know, everything I told you, if I don't believe in it,
I can't I can't do it. I can't speak on it, you know.
So this is more of a personal.
This is more like a personal thing that I've been on a personal journey
that I grew on.
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Me just being interested in just knowing who we are, who I am,
you know, I'm saying, just a black culture and being able to study, learn
and also being able to be blessed to do this, not just music podcasts
sitting in front of people and tell them what we've learned in our history.
So it's like when you wake yourself up, you know, your goal is to wake
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others up around you that look like you and come from where you come from.
Because like I stated before, like what's the point of you being good
but being around a lot of people that don't are not good?
I don't know this stuff or not educated.
I mean, it's no it's not going to be growth in that situation.
So if everybody is on the same level and everybody is, you know,
(17:29):
willing to learn and know their identity and know who they are,
you know, you got to think the crime rate will probably go down.
The education level will probably go up.
You know, all the bad statistics, the prison,
black African Americans in prison will probably, you know, think twice,
you know, before they do things and know if they knew their history
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and how far we came, even black women is in prison.
You know, just the population would drop.
I think I think the, you know, it'll be up for the black community.
If I think, you know, everybody jumped on board, what we'll be talking about.
So I just don't talk about this.
This is personal. I live it now.
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You know what I'm saying? I try to incorporate it with my life.
You know, I'm saying to live what we actually talk about.
And it feels good to live this way.
You know, it's cool to live this way. It's cool to live the right way.
You know, this is the new coup. This is the new coup.
What's the me? It is.
Quisimirdakia.
Most people don't don't value, you know, value things the same way.
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And it's hard to value things the same way as another person
when you're it's all about a personality.
Me, for me, this is one thing I know.
For one thing it is that
if nothing else, you know that I'm black.
Two, you know that I'm going to you might be.
Hey, let me find out you white under that.
Hey, I. Hey, you know, if if if if if we have if we have one thing,
(19:00):
we good thing we do have our skin.
Right. And that's black and I'm proud of that.
That's the black. Don't crack, baby.
Yeah, that's the one thing I feel like a lot of us, you know,
we we're blessed to say, you know, it's rare.
It's a rarity in a rare case to be.
In this skin and when and the winds come.
Me more and me more and means more.
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You feel me?
It means more.
If you're winning, if you're winning, if you're winning as an individual,
you know, this is what I mean by winning.
If you're winning as an individual, it's not saying anything to do with financial.
It's just really one sort of do it your mentality.
If you have a strong mentality, if you're if your ability is allowing you to be
able to do something and your ability to do something, you know,
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allowing you to be able to do something in your black individual,
you know, African American and you're out here daily doing things,
not even the case of saying that even if it's not even if you're broke,
even if you're going through a bad time right now,
you still have that ability in your black and you're doing what you can
to get, you know, to do better, to be in a better position.
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Can I throw this in there? Yeah, I want to throw this in there.
I've also learned doing the right thing, man, you get more blessings
than come your way. Just being a good person, man.
Blessings come your way.
I'm learning that, man.
Like, you know, I used to be tick for tech.
Now I pray about it.
I actually literally pray about it and don't go for tick for tech.
Everything on the response, you know, everything on the reaction.
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So I've learned, you know, beating people with kindness.
It always comes back in your favor.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's another thing I want to a key gem.
I want to throw out there is, you know, spread love, redden and hate,
because the love is going to be felt.
You might not see it, but the love is going to be felt.
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And that's why we got to love these holidays and love on the West,
you know, representation of us.
And, you know, saying we got to love on it, you know, because you love
on it good enough is going to treat you right.
You know, you're going to benefit from the reach of rewards from it.
There you go.
In some way, whether it's waking up and becoming a better person.
Like, you know, like your mindset, like it's that's a win, you know.
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It's growth.
So.
Anything else before we close this out?
You anything personal, other than the podcasting world would know?
And, you know, something that you want anybody to know about
for your own personal brands?
I just want to say Quincey Murdoch, man.
Y'all can find me Quincey Murdoch.
(21:35):
Type me in on Google Quincey Murdoch.com.
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I know I don't push that enough on here, but check out the music
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(21:56):
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This is what we real effective at.
And this is what clearly y'all have been showing this y'all want
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All right.
(22:37):
Peace.
Yo, it's your boy Quincy Murdoch.
(00:02):
And you're now tuned in to another episode
and not just music podcast where we keep it real and honest always.
All right, what's going on, everybody?
Not just music podcast.
Another home so welcoming and pushing a Juneteenth edition.
(00:23):
Today is a little different.
Oh, hopefully everybody understands that.
Juneteenth is officially a holiday for US
citizens and considerably.
Has a lot of meaning.
(00:44):
For those that didn't know considerably that Juneteenth is marks,
what we consider second Independence Day.
Oh, it's been celebrated off of years and years and years and years and years
and years and years and years, but nobody ever actually paid it any.
(01:06):
Attention and make it an official government day until two years ago.
Quincy Murdoch in the building.
What's going on, bro?
Was I in the man?
What you feeling about that?
What is your?
What was your take on Juneteenth before the actual marking of the date?
(01:29):
What was your understanding of what Juneteenth stood for?
I'm going to be 100 with you.
Me being an artist, I used to just get offers to perform at these Juneteenth events.
And, you know, it was just a lot of, you know, concession stands and,
you know, people selling stuff, black folks.
But I never knew what it meant.
(01:50):
But all I knew was there was a lot of black folks getting together.
Sometimes even other races, you know, come into events and it was music.
I was always, you know, given the opportunity to perform at some of these
things like Salisbury, for example.
But I never knew the the the meaning behind it, you know, to keep it 100.
(02:12):
Yeah. Yeah.
It's it's a.
It's a slept on.
Yeah, it's it's it's slept on.
It's slept on. Yeah. There you go.
That that's I mean, it's again, people didn't know it's the second independence day
in independence, an independent day that's marked for African Americans.
(02:36):
Just because.
It's historical.
Let me give my best example of what I mean by especially affects
if it affects the culture in a lot of different ways.
Some look at Independence Day, July 4th is the day that we gained our independence.
(02:59):
But it really wasn't for us.
Really wasn't for African Americans.
On a lot of people knew it to be as, you know, we just going to celebrate
this one day, July 4th, Independence Day, you know, go out, cookouts,
you know, fireworks, all that whole nine.
(03:20):
That was fun.
Yeah, celebrating.
Yeah.
When nobody know we celebrate.
Yeah. And if it's realistically, if it's realistic to say, and it's nothing wrong
with those that do go along with the hype of just, you know, any of those
any of those holidays that they really don't know about or looking into the
details, understanding those holidays, they probably would never know.
(03:42):
No, Juneteenth has a very big, very big, very, very, very, very, very big
meeting. And just as July 4th, Juneteenth, say Wednesday, you know, is,
is, is well, it'll be Wednesday.
We're shooting this today on a Monday.
But again, it's a blessing to say that we finally have a holiday that marks
(04:05):
an official date to us having our independence.
One reason being, of course,
got a roll over to understanding the history of it.
You know, history of it got erased.
Just like all the rest of Black history moments that we
(04:29):
don't know about.
You got erased.
Nobody wanted to talk about it.
Nobody wanted to be specific about it.
But you hear people saying, you know, we don't have a Juneteenth.
That's like you say, you know, people will invite you to come to these events
and they don't even give any detail to what's going on and why you're at.
Yeah. Now that you say that, they never made it.
They never explained what Juneteenth was.
(04:49):
No introduction into Juneteenth.
I'm like, man, what?
Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't go into detail on what Juneteenth
really could mean.
And especially the ones that was in Charlotte, Charlotte never really
ever gave official meaning to what Juneteenth could really be and what it
could really mean. Now, I know for a fact.
(05:10):
You know, as you something, yeah, you think you think some people know what it
is, but they're like.
Kind of scared to put it out there because Black, Black people, you know,
and even Black people are kind of scared to celebrate Blackness because of the
reception of another race or other people outside.
(05:32):
So they might not get as many people to console it so they don't want to make
it Black, Black, but it's really about us.
You think?
Is that?
Or is it just lack of education?
You do you what you said one and two.
You just said it's a lot of politics.
It's a lot. I mean, it's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot to understand on it.
(05:55):
But it's really simplified in a sense.
But for the most part, the reason why I feel it's not like known about it's
because it's really it's a simple.
It's something that can be simplified and taught just like how, you know,
how we talk about independence day July 4th.
It could be it could be just as simple as that.
And just let's let's do a little small detail on it just because I wasn't going
(06:16):
to read this, but I just want to say because we're just really talking about
a post emancipation period known as reconstruction in 18 from 1865 to 1877.
Marked an era of great hope, uncertainty and struggle for the nation as a whole.
Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools,
run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders
(06:42):
for compensation, given the 200 plus years of enslavement.
Such changes were nothing short of amazing.
Not even a generation out of slavery.
African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country.
So Juneteenth marks the country's second day of independence.
Although that's our real that's our real independence, not July 4th.
(07:06):
Our real one is.
Here you go.
Juneteenth.
So the historical legacy of Juneteenth shows the value of never giving up hope
in uncertain times.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a community
space where the spirit of hope lives on a place where historical events like
Juneteenth are shared in new stories with equal urgency are told.
(07:29):
So if you're in that area where the National Museum of African American
History is, if you're there in that area, take advantage of it.
That's something great to learn.
I mean, it's a lot of stuff to really push when it comes to Juneteenth.
But one of those things is when those communities that are trying to push it,
(07:49):
y'all should go check that stuff out.
Go look into it.
I mean, it's I mean, it's going to be a lot of stuff online across the board.
Right.
So don't look in.
Don't look don't look in the shorthand manner.
Look in the little hand.
It's a lot.
I can say it's a lot to speak on.
And I'm going to give this one little detail to.
And it's good.
And it's good.
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And it's good.
And it's good.
Big names are bringing attention to it too.
Because I see Kendra Lamar is doing like a little festival on Juneteenth.
You know, so, you know, being a big name.
Like that, it'll make people want to research and look into it.
Like, what is Juneteenth?
So shout out to the ones with these big names is bringing attention to it.
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You know what I'm saying?
Shout out to Kendra Lamar for doing that.
Because like you say, our history, you know, some of this stuff is swept under the road.
Yeah.
You know, so it's good to have somebody his statue.
You know, still remember that, you know, even though he don't even have to remember it,
you know, in his mind, if you don't want to, all that money and fame.
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But he still know where he came from.
So that's big.
So knowing, knowing where you come from and knowing how you were raised,
things of that nature really play a big role in the society we live in today,
knowing that stuff like that.
So we can celebrate it the correct way.
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Right.
I feel a lot of the holidays and stuff that we celebrate can get mixed up.
And we can kind of fall into a lane where we really don't have to celebrate
those holidays, but we tend to do it because it's just what goes along with job holidays.
You off on that day, most people off on those days.
So they don't have nothing to do.
So they just end up in a celebration manner.
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Yeah.
But the one more detail to this was the Juneteenth marks the day in 18 day in 1865.
And slaves were free, right?
Yeah.
They were asleep.
Well, whatever.
So that that that kind of changes.
That's what changes what independence for July 4 stands for versus Juneteenth stands for.
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You know, it's it's different.
You know, is the OK.
How they try to and we go.
Hey, we go harder for July 4th, right?
We go hard.
Always.
And as I and for years, that's because.
Yeah, just because I had we had that's the.
And that's the only day we have and we couldn't get it to celebrate it or serve as.
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A holiday.
It's a holiday until just recently.
So, you know.
People pushing for it finally paid off.
So that's a good thing.
Now to make it be prominent as all these other holidays is going to be just as key.
So, you know.
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Me, this is what I feel.
And this is something that I know that we we have the opportunity to do it because it's it's a hand.
So, along with this episode and then along with a couple other things that I'm going to do on the website.
That's going to be basically just an.
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Basically, an honor to Juneteenth.
Just so it's it's it's looked at.
And so that's it in a sense of this is a big versus just looking at it as a like this should be looked at as small.
And remember, we don't have holidays as African Americans.
This is our holiday.
And we we go through a whole year of different holidays that really have nothing to do that
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put us in a position to where it's us and in taking history to another level.
Like always with my black history shirt.
I ain't got tired of this shirt yet.
Black history and we talk about black history.
We're talking about is American history.
That's the big thing about this shirt.
Black history is always right to hold on, you know, selling my black folks to hold on out there.
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So if it's a thing, oh, yeah, if it's a thing where we're making history,
here's our chance to make history in a sense where it could be looked at and served as something positive versus a negative.
You know, we have good stuff going on. Yes.
But again, you know, let's not make the June team holiday.
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You know, let's not make it into a thing of this could be a thing of a weird holiday.
You know, black folk can tend to make things weird.
And we talked about that before, man.
They changed some change the narrative out of something quick.
So we got to watch.
Oh, yeah.
Know how they look at us.
So that's another thing.
Be careful out here rolling around on June team today, basically, because you catching this day.
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Y'all be careful.
Take take advantage of knowing when to do things and do it the right way.
If you're celebrating, celebrate and be free.
Who you're around to you around, you know, you might check the racism and all that
because they might they might know the details of it, you know, and you you might not.
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So I hope you all tuned in.
If you didn't know the history that this was an important day for black
African-American slaves, man.
You know what I'm saying?
Black American period.
Yeah, us Americans do have this this foe, two of one more thing, especially
coming with African-Americans.
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Remember, the holiday is considerably for what it was.
Don't celebrate it for what you in your feelings of today.
Take celebration, take celebratory to a certain extent, you know, be humble
for what the day is, you know, if you didn't, you know, you're getting your thing,
you doing your thing, yeah, do your thing.
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But at the same time, be humble, be humble about it, man.
We have an opportunity as black people now and we finally are free from something.
And it's not the case that we're completely in this great place.
It's not saying we're in a great place, but we didn't they didn't.
We were we far from what we were.
Yeah, we didn't have they didn't have a celebration back then.
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Yeah, they couldn't celebrate.
We need no celebration.
Yeah, no celebration at all.
Yeah, that was we have the opportunity to do it.
So let's respect it.
You know, you standing on your grandparents and your grandparents,
grandparents and your grandparents, grandparents, grandparents, shoulders.
And you have the opportunity to make it look good.
So, um, I'm I'm feeling a little, you know, bad, though,
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about one thing and the one thing I'm bad, I feel because if it was a thing
to be served, you know, the people that it should serve, they didn't get to taste it.
You know, that's the only thing that I don't like.
We're we have that opportunity to celebrate it for them.
Yes, but they didn't have this opportunity, you know, that they didn't
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want to actually was in the field and was doing it.
You know, to taste it.
Yeah, to be able to taste it the way we taste it now.
You know, so I try to savor stuff differently.
And some of us only appreciate it.
You know, I take it in like I supposed to be taking in.
So yeah, that make it that make you want to appreciate it.
It changes and it changes.
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Yeah, it changes your outlook.
And I'm blessed to say that it can be, you know,
given to people versus we get we're given this opportunity.
So like unlike anybody else, we are already given in a positive light
versus giving it a negative light
because the case of we're speaking on in a positive mentality.
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Last thing I want to ask you
with even moving forward
with black topics and black, you know, being a black mentor,
being a black story and being a black content creator,
being black in your position that you're in.
Remember, do you remember when you were at a point
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where you didn't understand how or when or or the direction
you would be moving like just say you go back five years?
Did you think that you'll be talking about black topics?
Were you talking about black topics? No.
No. And I'm going to say this, like, you know me, bro.
Like, you know, like I put my heart into everything that I do.
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Like the music, you know, everything I told you, if I don't believe in it,
I can't I can't do it. I can't speak on it, you know.
So this is more of a personal.
This is more like a personal thing that I've been on a personal journey
that I grew on.
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Me just being interested in just knowing who we are, who I am,
you know, I'm saying, just a black culture and being able to study, learn
and also being able to be blessed to do this, not just music podcasts
sitting in front of people and tell them what we've learned in our history.
So it's like when you wake yourself up, you know, your goal is to wake
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others up around you that look like you and come from where you come from.
Because like I stated before, like what's the point of you being good
but being around a lot of people that don't are not good?
I don't know this stuff or not educated.
I mean, it's no it's not going to be growth in that situation.
So if everybody is on the same level and everybody is, you know,
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willing to learn and know their identity and know who they are,
you know, you got to think the crime rate will probably go down.
The education level will probably go up.
You know, all the bad statistics, the prison,
black African Americans in prison will probably, you know, think twice,
you know, before they do things and know if they knew their history
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and how far we came, even black women is in prison.
You know, just the population would drop.
I think I think the, you know, it'll be up for the black community.
If I think, you know, everybody jumped on board, what we'll be talking about.
So I just don't talk about this.
This is personal. I live it now.
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You know what I'm saying? I try to incorporate it with my life.
You know, I'm saying to live what we actually talk about.
And it feels good to live this way.
You know, it's cool to live this way. It's cool to live the right way.
You know, this is the new coup. This is the new coup.
What's the me? It is.
Quisimirdakia.
Most people don't don't value, you know, value things the same way.
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And it's hard to value things the same way as another person
when you're it's all about a personality.
Me, for me, this is one thing I know.
For one thing it is that
if nothing else, you know that I'm black.
Two, you know that I'm going to you might be.
Hey, let me find out you white under that.
Hey, I. Hey, you know, if if if if if we have if we have one thing,
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we good thing we do have our skin.
Right. And that's black and I'm proud of that.
That's the black. Don't crack, baby.
Yeah, that's the one thing I feel like a lot of us, you know,
we we're blessed to say, you know, it's rare.
It's a rarity in a rare case to be.
In this skin and when and the winds come.
Me more and me more and means more.
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You feel me?
It means more.
If you're winning, if you're winning, if you're winning as an individual,
you know, this is what I mean by winning.
If you're winning as an individual, it's not saying anything to do with financial.
It's just really one sort of do it your mentality.
If you have a strong mentality, if you're if your ability is allowing you to be
able to do something and your ability to do something, you know,
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allowing you to be able to do something in your black individual,
you know, African American and you're out here daily doing things,
not even the case of saying that even if it's not even if you're broke,
even if you're going through a bad time right now,
you still have that ability in your black and you're doing what you can
to get, you know, to do better, to be in a better position.
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Can I throw this in there? Yeah, I want to throw this in there.
I've also learned doing the right thing, man, you get more blessings
than come your way. Just being a good person, man.
Blessings come your way.
I'm learning that, man.
Like, you know, I used to be tick for tech.
Now I pray about it.
I actually literally pray about it and don't go for tick for tech.
Everything on the response, you know, everything on the reaction.
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So I've learned, you know, beating people with kindness.
It always comes back in your favor.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's another thing I want to a key gem.
I want to throw out there is, you know, spread love, redden and hate,
because the love is going to be felt.
You might not see it, but the love is going to be felt.
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And that's why we got to love these holidays and love on the West,
you know, representation of us.
And, you know, saying we got to love on it, you know, because you love
on it good enough is going to treat you right.
You know, you're going to benefit from the reach of rewards from it.
There you go.
In some way, whether it's waking up and becoming a better person.
Like, you know, like your mindset, like it's that's a win, you know.
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It's growth.
So.
Anything else before we close this out?
You anything personal, other than the podcasting world would know?
And, you know, something that you want anybody to know about
for your own personal brands?
I just want to say Quincey Murdoch, man.
Y'all can find me Quincey Murdoch.
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Type me in on Google Quincey Murdoch.com.
You know, check out all my latest music.
I know I don't push that enough on here, but check out the music
that I got out, real dope music.
Later singles, I put out this is true love, drinks to reality,
R&B tracks, you know, a movie, Quincey Murdoch movies out, you know,
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more to come, more podcasting too, man.
This is what we love to do.
This is what we real effective at.
And this is what clearly y'all have been showing this y'all want
us to do and see us do.
So, you know, this is top of the gender, you know, agenda.
So yeah, thank y'all, man.
Keep keep supporting, keep tuning in below.
Y'all.
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Website, check out the website.
Subscribe to the website.
Subscribe to everything that you get to hear.
So.
If nothing else, I'm D'Juan Barino, Quincey Murdoch.
See you out next time.
What's going on?
It's your boy D'Juan Barino from Not Just Music Podcast.
Make sure you stay tuned for next week's episode.
All right.
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Peace.
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