06/19/2022
This I want folks to celebrate the freedom and liberation for Black folk, an ideal that we are still fighting for today, so many years after enslaved Blacks were allegedly “freed”. But to just celebrate would feel like a disservice, as Black folk continue to be oppressed in this country. I also want folks to consider how much resistance there was to the abolition of slavery. There was a time when slavery was an institution so powerful that many couldn’t imagine it would or could ever go away. But thanks to the tireless struggle of abolitionists of all races, those in power were forced to end slavery to preserve the nation (the source of their profits). Today, there is a new abolitionist movement calling for an end to policing and prisons, institutions that have failed to keep society safe and actively harm millions of Americans each year. Innocent Black folk continue to be disproportionately arrested, beaten, jailed, imprisoned, and killed by our so-called criminal “justice” system. Many folks continue to resist the idea of a world without police or prisons because they lack the imagination to picture a world in which ALL folks are protected by equitable systems of public safety and accountability. If you do not support abolition today, would you have supported abolition in the 1800s? Stop defending systems of oppression and celebrate Juneteenth by carrying on the spirit of abolition. Let’s create a better world within the shell of the old.✊🏾
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