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Juneteenth 2020: Is Disney+ The Perfect Reparations Opportunity?
Juneteenth may be over but racism is not! Hip-hop, chicken restaurants, and Disney+ are the perfect opportunity to respectfully and effectively pay reparations.
Juneteenth is a historic day in US history and is the perfect opportunity to talk about the horrors of slavery which plagued our country not even that long ago. When being confronted with the past, the idea of reparations is repeatedly thrown around. Often, however, reparations come in the form of small amounts of money given to all African Americans descended from the enslaved. ZzzZzz...BORING! (and ineffective) It’s time to spice things up! I used this year’s Juneteenth to spend the day contemplating our wrongdoings as a nation and came up with some unconventional but clever and achievable ways of repairing the damage white oppressors have done.
1) More HipHop!
Hip Hop/Rap is undeniably one of African American society’s biggest achievements. Everyone likes rap. Even me, a middle aged, white-born woman, likes to groove off to some Russ while sliding through my...
Juneteenth is a historic day in US history and is the perfect opportunity to talk about the horrors of slavery which plagued our country not even that long ago. When being confronted with the past, the idea of reparations is repeatedly thrown around. Often, however, reparations come in the form of small amounts of money given to all African Americans descended from the enslaved. ZzzZzz...BORING! (and ineffective) It’s time to spice things up! I used this year’s Juneteenth to spend the day contemplating our wrongdoings as a nation and came up with some unconventional but clever and achievable ways of repairing the damage white oppressors have done.
1) More HipHop!
Hip Hop/Rap is undeniably one of African American society’s biggest achievements. Everyone likes rap. Even me, a middle aged, white-born woman, likes to groove off to some Russ while sliding through my...
