I don't know what most white people in this country feel.

I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host Katina and

Gehran. Today's topic is June team. We first cover what was going on in the nation before the

emancipation proclamation. Then we zoom in on Texas specifically and what the culture was like,

share some stories from the past, and tie the throughline to why and how people celebrate June team today.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, Garen, we're going to be talking about Juneteenth.

So set up for us the picture of what's going on in the country and the time frame.

Because I'm sure a lot of our listeners have heard the word Juneteenth,

but may not know exactly what that means in regards to history and the events that took place.

So help us out.

Yep. Juneteenth is a holiday on June 19th, celebrating the end of slavery in America. And it has roots in a particular story within Texas, within Galveston, Texas. But it's kind of grown over time and

become just a general nationwide holiday celebrating the end of enslavement in America.

So why June 19th in particular? That's the commemoration of the day that the word of freedom

at the end of the Civil War came to Galveston, Texas through General Granger, bringing General Order

Number 3. We're going to get into that in a minute. It was two years after the emancipation

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