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A
The
reason
for
june
16
juneteenth
is
for
celebration,
excitement
happiness
about
being
free,
being
free,
no
longer
bound.
What
did
that
mean
to
us
as
african-americans,
that
meant
we
were
no
longer
considered
slave
property
owned
by
anybody.
We
were
free
men
and
women,
but
what
did
that
mean
in
the
world
going
forth?
A
A
A
We
got
jim
crow
laws,
we
got
clan
killings
in
the
night
time,
fathers
and
mothers
began
to
tell
their
children
don't
make
eye
contact
whatever
you
have
to
do,
don't
make
an
uproar
because
they
knew
that
if
their
child
did,
they
may
lose
their
child,
so
that
was
ingrained
in
us.
We
lost
the
celebration
and
began
to
have
the
drudgery
of
trying
to
live
out
that
equality
that
the
emancipation
proclamation
was
supposed
to
give
us
now
come
fast
forward
until
modern
day,
and
how
does
that
resonate
with
me?
A
A
I
witnessed
young
people
walk
out
of
school
because
they
did
not
feel
that
they
was
equal
and
receiving
equal
treatment
in
the
education
system
to
see
that
as
a
child
was
so
as
they
say.
Surreal
because
me
and
my
brothers
had
to
be
taken
home
in
a
police
car,
because
we
were
bussed
in
from
rock
hill
road
into
shiloh
school
and
all
of
my
other
friends
walked
home
or
was
able
to
interact
with
the
people
the
teenagers
and
that
they
knew
that
had
congregated
at
shiloh
elementary
school.
A
A
If
juneteenth
was
an
opportunity
to
celebrate
freedom
and
brown
versus
way
with
the
we
need
to
have
equal
education.
A
We
celebrated
our
black
lives
and
the
freedom
with
juneteenth,
but
we're
now
protesting
and
marching
in
the
street,
because
we
still
have
that
mind
have
the
sense
that
we
can't
get
the
liberty
and
justice
that
our
constitution
brought
to
us,
and
I
always
go
back
to
those
words.
We
hold
these
truths
to
be
self-evident,
that
all
men
are
created
equal,
that
they
are
endowed
by
their
creator
with
certain
inalienable
rights
and
among
those
rights
are
life,
liberty
and
the
pursuit
of
happiness.
A
A
A
A
C
D
I'm
annette
coleman
and
I'm
a
native
of
this
area.
I
was
born
in
leicester,
north
carolina,
and
the
thing
that
I
wanted
to
say
this
morning
was
june.
19Th
could
not
be
coming
at
a
more
fitting
time
and
for
me
it's
an
opportunity
to
reflect
on
our
history
of
brave
black
women
and
men
who
suffered
under
slavery
and
fought
so
hard
for
our
freedoms
and
our
equities
that
we
have
now
over
150
years
later.
We
are
still
struggling
with
issues
of
racism
and
injustice.
D
We
did
a
little
of
that
in
from
60
to
65
here
in
asheville.
You
all
may
have
heard
about
a
score
actual
student
committee
on
racial
equality,
but
we
thought
perhaps
that
might
be
the
end
of
some
of
the
racism
and
injustices
that
we
see
now,
but
it
just
put
a
band-aid
on,
and
here
we
are
again,
the
current
situation
has
forced
us
forced
us
to
once
again
confront
the
long
history
of
injustice,
and
it
is
critical
that
we
stand
together,
speak
out
and
do
everything
in
our
power
to
eradicate
this
bad
bad
behavior.
E
E
E
The
celebration
is
great,
but
we
never
celebrated
growing
up,
because
we,
we
didn't,
really
know
anything
about
it.
It
was
so
far
stretched
from
down
in
texas
the
thing
that
you
know
I
gather
from
that
is
from
1863
to
it
was
two
years
after
that
that
the
people
in
texas
found
out
that
they
were
free,
because
they
really
didn't
realize
that
they
were
free
and
it
kind
of
made
me
think
of.
Possibly
it
was
because
they
were
uneducated.
E
E
E
They
were
able
to
you
know
let
their
kids
get
some
schooling,
so
that
was
that
was
what
I
got
out
of
june
juneteenth
and
then
I
know
a
lot
of
people
laugh
and
talk
about.
Well,
you
know
our
culture,
we
eat
fried
chicken,
potato
salad,
watermelon
apple
pie
and
peach
pie,
but
that's
part
of
that
celebration
of
june
10th
that
day-
and
that
was
because
most
of
that
was
stuff
was
grown
right
there
on
the
property
and
it
was
easy
for
them
to
fix,
so
it
made
a
difference
to
them.
E
So,
as
we
celebrate,
I
know
my
daughter
lives
in
maryland
and
she's
going
to
celebrate
on
sunday
and
as
I
realized,
I
started
researching
about
juneteenth.
It
stretched
out
past
the
united
states
because
some
other
slaves
will
free
brazil,
some
of
the
they're
gonna.
Do
my
daughter's
gonna
do
a
jamaican
type
thing
for
june
10th,
but
I
still
become
saddened
because
I
look
at
today's
context
of
what's
going
on
and
I
really
feel
like
that.
E
E
So
because,
if
you
look
as
past
that
1865
in
the
1900s,
they
were
still
dehumanized,
they
were
still
unable
to
get
jobs
and
make
money,
and
you
know,
send
their
kids
to
college.
It
was
just
the
dynamics
and,
as
we
go
up
for
years
to
come
now,
where
have
we
stepped
back,
where
we
still
have
men
that
can't
feed
their
families,
they
can't
get
decent
jobs.
E
So
as
we
celebrate
juneteenth,
I
love
to
keep
it
in
a
positive
perspective,
because
I
have
seen
the
changes
from
the
50s,
the
60s
and
now
the
70s,
because
when
I
was
in
the
early
70s
it
was
kind
of
unusual
for
a
black
person
to
go
to
all
white
college.
You
know
we
didn't
have
that
many
options.
We
had
some,
but
you
had
to
be
so
exceptional
to
even
get
accepted
in
so
things
have
changed.
E
E
I've
listened
to
the
stories
that
my
grandfather,
who
was
born
and
raised
in
south
carolina,
and
he
was
the
child
of
the
plantation
owner
and
with
the
way
that
he
talked
about,
he
probably
got
a
lot
of
more
benefits
than
some
of
the
others,
because
he
was
granted
land
and
his
father,
you
know,
took
care
of
them
because
him
it
was
10
of
my
mom.
E
F
My
name
is
brandon
mays,
I'm
originally
from
inglewood,
california,
but
I've
been
here
in
asheville,
the
majority
of
my
life,
so
I
call
ashford
north
carolina
home
as
far
as
juneteenth
goes.
I
had
to
do
some
research
on
it.
I'm
not
really
aware
of
it
coming
up
elementary
school
through
middle
school
and
history
books,
history,
lessons
as
far
as
the
celebration
of
it,
I
had
a
teammate
at
firm
university
he's
from
galveston
texas,
where
juneteenth
came
about,
and
he
didn't
really
say
much
about
it.
F
F
You
know,
should
we
put
more
emphasis
on
juneteenth
for
us,
considering
the
freedom
associated
with
it
as
opposed
to
july,
the
4th,
so
you
have
that
going
on
and
when
I
was
thinking
about
it,
researching
and
everything
just
the
emancipation
proclamation
coming
about
january,
the
1st
and
we
had
a
church
service.
C
F
I
understand
you
know
decades
after
1865
june
19th
that
there
were
celebrations
that
occurred
mainly
throughout
texas
and
african-american
community,
especially
it
was
met
with
some
resistance
and
when
the
depression
came
about,
I
understood
that
many
of
the
the
workers
had
to
go
into
the
city.
So
where
the
celebrations
were
held
in
the
rural
areas,
they
had
to
just
go
away
from
that,
and
then
you
know,
unless
it
was
on
a
weekend,
they
weren't
really
allowed
to
celebrate
it.
So
it
kind
of
you
know
diminished
from
there
picked
back
up
in
the
civil
rights
movement.
F
Talking
about
it
briefly,
you
know
dealing
with
that
and
just
remembering
the
ancestors
and
pretty
much
the
the
idea
behind
it.
Whenever
we
did
have
the
celebration
coming
from
it.
You
know
it
was
just
working
on
self-reflection
and
prayer
community
coming
together
and
just
remembering
the
freedom
that
came
with
it.
And
you
know
I'm
looking
at
it
now
and
dealing
with
what
we
have
currently
in
in
america.
F
It's
just
going
back
to
the
emancipation
proclamation
in
1863
how
freedom
came
about,
but
it
wasn't
given
to
all
considering
that
the
confederate
states
withheld
from
it
and
then,
when
you
have
juneteenth,
come
about
in
1865
on
june,
the
19th
it
came
about,
but
still
what
did
it
mean
to
be
completely
free
and
you
know
just
dealing
with
land
ownership,
and
you
know
the
ability
to
to
have
the
equal
rights
to
property,
as
well
as
as
as
equal
rights
as
citizens.
F
And
so
just
when
you
look
at
the
evolution
of
african
americans,
the
status
within
the
united
states
going
from
three-fifths
of
a
person,
and
then
you
know
going
to
the
emancipation
plot
proclamation
and
then
juneteenth
becoming
100
percent
free,
but
still
seen
as
a
second-class
citizen
and
we're
still
in
a
state
like
that.
So
it's
just
juneteenth
is
a
reminder
of
policy
being
in
place
to
liberate
all
of
the
african-americans.
F
F
Coming
up
in
school,
I
mean
it
was
always
overshadowed
by
emancipation
proclamation
that
took
most
of
the
weight
and
the
way
that
I
understood
it
growing
up
was
that's
when
slaves
were
free
100
throughout
the
country,
but
that's
not
the
case
and
that's
what
I'm
learning
from
juneteenth
and
celebrations.
I
think,
will
come
back.
You
know
it
takes
big
movements
to
bring
it
in
just
like
the
civil
rights
brought
it
back
in
the
50s
and
60s,
and
so
maybe
one
day
we'll
have
it
as
a
as
a
national
holiday
celebrated
throughout
the
united
states.
H
H
My
grandmother
was
originally
from
clinton,
south
carolina
and
she
came
to
asheville,
of
course
migrated
here
for
a
job,
but
before
she
left
they
of
course,
would
celebrate
jim
tim.
H
G
H
Who
was
my
great-grandmother
had
told
her
about
it,
and
my
great-grandmother
was
a
creole
lady
from
new
orleans,
so
she
had
been
kind
of
more
exposed
to
it
than
my
grandmother
did.
H
Juneteenth
is
a
holiday
that
celebrated
like
independence
day
that
celebrated
on
july
4th.
The
only
thing
is
is
that
juneteenth
is
celebrated
on
june
19th
and
what
it
actually
does
is
combine
the
word
june
with
the
19th.
So
hence
juneteenth
juneteenth
celebrated
emancipation,
but
it
was
almost
two
and
a
half
years
later
than
the
real
emancipation
slaves
were
freed
on
january
1
1863.
H
But
what
had
happened
was
that
in
galveston
texas,
according
this
is
some
research
that
I
picked
up
later
on,
because
it
was
kind
of
because
it
was
celebrated
so
sporadically.
I
know
here
when
I
was
growing
up
and
not
at
all
really,
but
according
to
my
grandmother
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
why
it
was
celebrated
so
sporadically,
but
going
back
to
why
it
was
so
late.
H
Communications
may
have
been
a
problem.
A
gentleman
named
gordon
granger,
he
was
a
general.
He
happened
to
arrive
and
read
the
edict
that
declared
all
men
and
women
manumitted
or
free
from
slavery
who
were
negroes,
and
it
was
read
in
galveston,
texas
and
at
the
time
that
it
was
read,
even
though
it
was
two
and
a
half
years
late.
H
After
later
after
the
emancipation,
my
grandmother
and
my
great-grandmother
had
told
her
that
there
was
something
called
the
scatter,
in
other
words
when
free
slaves,
when
they
were
free
and
they
heard
the
general
reading
the
emancipation
of
the
jim
team,
the
freedom
declaration
on
june
19
1865.
H
She
said
that
there
was
something
called
the
scatter
and
the
scatter
happened
because
people
some
slaves
who
were
newly
freed
and
heard
the
emancipation
of
the
juneteenth
reading
being
done
immediately,
left
from
where
they
were
and
scattered
to
go,
find
relatives
that
were
located
in
other
states
and
other
cities
and
a
lot
of
them
just
wanted
to
get
away
from
the
people
who
owned
them.
There
was
also
a
theory.
H
She
said
that
my
great-grandmother
from
new
orleans
told
her
is
that
they
deliberately
delayed
the
announcement
to
try
to
get
the
free
labor,
the
cotton
crop
in
or
whatever,
and
so
it
was
delayed.
And
then
she
also
said
that
a
lot
of
people,
some
of
them,
chose
to
stay
and
not
scatter.
G
H
People
stayed
because
it
was
suggested
that
they
stay
in
place
and
work
where
they
were
for
wages,
but
I
wonder
why
it
was
never
celebrated,
at
least
when
I
was
growing
up
here
in
asheville,
very
limited
celebrations,
and
my
grandmother
said
it
was
because
during
segregation
of
course,
a
lot
of
black
people
could
not,
because
of
jim
crow
and
segregation,
couldn't
use
public
facilities
to
like
a
park
or
anything
like
that.
So
it
was
kind
of
relegated
to
community
shelter
or
small
parts
of
the
community
and
kind
of
sporadic.
H
Also.
My
grandmother
told
me
that
after
that,
with
jim
crow
and
segregation,
and
then
the
civil
rights
movement
that
sort
of
disturbed
the
celebration
of
jim
team
even
further,
but
I
mean
because
everybody's
focus
was
on
civil
rights
and
all
of
that
and
not
a
whole
lot
on
the
celebration
of
freedom
because
it
was
you
know
so
much
supreme
oppression.
H
Going
on
but
at
any
rate
it's
just
to
commemorate
and
a
lot
of
people
are
renewing
that
all
over
the
country
they're
celebrating
the
emancipation
of
american
free
slaves
with
juneteenth
and,
I
believe,
there's
a
celebration
of
small
one.
That's
in
a
community
here
in
asheville,
that's
recently
started
in
the
hillcrest
community
they're
doing
one,
but
I
think
that's
the
only
one
that
may
be
on
a
large
public
scale
here
in
asheville.
There
are.
C
H
Around
the
country
that
are
bigger,
but
when
I
asked
my
grandmother
about
it,
why
it
wasn't
celebrated,
she
said
it
was
because
there
was
so
much
oppression
and
a
lot
of
people
thought
we
didn't
have
anything
to
celebrate.
But
here
lately
before
the
pandemic,
of
course
there
were
public
celebrations.
So
that's
what
I
know
about
juneteen
in
asheville
north
carolina.
I
Hi,
I'm
dk
wesley
assistant,
county
manager
here
in
buncombe
county.
I
want
to
take
this
time
to
wish
you
all
a
very
happy
juneteenth
june
19th
has
always
been
a
day
that
my
family
and
friends
have
celebrated.
We
celebrate
liberty,
we
celebrate
freedom.
We
also
celebrate
the
rich
culture
that
we
have
here
as
descendants
of
africans
in
the
united
states.
So
on
this
weekend
I
hope
you
take
the
time
to
celebrate
your
family
to
think
about
how
far
we've
come,
but
acknowledge
that
there's
much
much
much
more
work
to
be
done
here.
Happy
juneteenth.
G
Juneteenth,
for
me
means
a
couple
of
things
it.
It
means
that
it
brings
back
childhood
memories
of
being
in
the
park
with
my
parents,
barbecuing
and
celebrating,
with
a
whole
bunch
of
people
who
have
migrated
to
california
from
texas
and
mississippi
my
parents.
My
mother,
was
from
galveston,
where
juneteenth
originated
later
on.
I
figured
out
that
it
was
for
it
was
like
a
second
independence
day
for
us.
G
I
had
juneteenth
and
I
had
the
fourth
of
july.
It
was
like
being
doubly
blessed
and
later
as
an
adult.
I,
I
kind
of
put
it
together
that
it
matched
my
twoness
as
an
african
and
african-american.
G
I
got
juneteenth
as
well
as
the
fourth
of
july
to
celebrate
independence
and
freedom,
and
I
figured
that
on
the
positive
side
I
was
doubly
blessed
to
have
both
I'm
independent
and
free
as
an
african-american.
Thank
you.
C
B
I
am
a
37-year
residence
of
asheville
been
here
since
1983
and
I
think
the
whole
time
that
I've
lived
in
asheville
I've
lived
in
the
city
limits
where
I
live
in
now
I've
been
there
for
33
years
to
house
and
is
in
what
we
call
the
south
side
and
the
south
side
is
basically
it's
not
built
more
south
side.
It
is
the
south
side
that
there
was
a
street
that
came
through
the
neighborhood
before
urban
renewal
called
the
south
side
avenue.
B
It
basically
went
from
biltmore
avenue
all
the
way
down
to
depot
street
which
is
going
towards
the
river,
but
for
some
reason
the
city
rolled
the
street
up,
and
so
when
they
rolled
the
street
up,
it
was
part
of
if
you
think
the
south
side
is
just
between
biltmore
avenue
and
cox
avenue.
You
know
it
went
all
the
way
down
the
depot
street.
So
I
live
in
that
neighborhood,
which
is
called
the
southside
neighborhood,
but
it's
it's
being
gentrified
and
as
it's
being
gentrified
the
characters,
people
still
live
there.
B
B
B
C
C
B
The
last
doing.
B
Thing
I
made
an
effort
to
say
I
want
to
learn
everybody.
You
know
at
least
speak
to
him
say
something
to
him,
everybody
on
the
block,
and
so
I
did
and
got
to
know
them.
You
know
just
on
a
first-name
basis,
maybe
on
a
cross-defense
basis.
B
B
Who
would
have
a
thunk
that,
155
years
later,
I
would
be
worried
about
my
15
month
old
granddaughter
and
what
she
has
to
face.
I
mean
I
watched
the
pbs
series,
the
other
day,
which
is
which
talked
about
the
criminalization
of
black
girls
and
how
the
prison
system
is
growing
and
they're
building
for
women
prison.
I'm,
like
you
mean
I
can't
go
to
the
house
and
just
sit
and
do
nothing
because
she's
going
to
be
facing
this
system.
B
We
got
to
think
about
that
and
how
do
we
interact
with
that
and
this
person
into
me,
because
I
have
two
granddaughters
one's
20
years:
24
years
of
age
and
then
one
that's
15
months,
and
so,
but
I'm
thinking
they
both
are
in
this
thing
and
they're
having
to
fight
this
world
and
what
goes
on
and
all
of
that
june.
10.
B
B
Somewhat
because
people
have
not
it's
almost
too
close
to
fourth
of
july
and
and
so
people
want
to
celebrate
on
fourth
of
july
and
sort
of
forget
about
german
team.
But
I
was
hoped
to
think
that
when
the
plantation
on
came
out
on
the
front
porch
back
then
in
1863
or
1865
in
case
of
the
slaves
in
texas,
that
when.
B
Said
I
can
no
longer
keep
you
here,
you're
free
to
go.
I'm
thinking
that
my
grandfather,
great
great-great-grandfather,
was
in
standing
there
and
when
the
plantation
owner
maybe
finished
his
speech
and
everything
he
did
three.
He
did
a
couple
of
things
number
one.
He
looked
down
at
his
feet
and
he
said
I
got.
C
B
Once
this
speech
was
over
with
guess
who
says
I'll.
G
B
B
B
Groups-
and
I
would
think
that
maybe
one
of
the
reason
that
I
am
sitting
here
today
doing
this-
is
because
of
him
that
he
started
this
advocacy
thing
and
this
activism
thing
in
me
that
says:
okay,
let's
go
see
y'all
later.
I
don't
know
what
we'll
do
tomorrow,
but
I
know
I'm
gonna
take
the
first
step
and
then
the
second
step
he
probably
had
to
decide.
Well,
which
direction
am
I
going?
B
C
B
G
B
B
We're
facing
protests,
and
then
someone
reminded
me
the
other
day
they
say
you
from
the
coast
of
north
carolina
right.
He
said,
oh
hurricanes,
so
how
you
can
put
all
those
together
and
how
you
gonna.
Do
you
know,
because
this
some
town
or
some
city
is
gonna,
be
faced
with
those
three
within
the
next
month
or
the
next
couple
months
pandemic
protest
hurricanes
how
you
gonna
handle
it?
What
do
you
do?
B
We
realize
oh
poor
folks
are
the
ones
that
really
get
exposed
and
everything.
Oh
then
we'll
send
them
a
stimulus,
check
or
we'll
send
them
the
we'll
up
their
honor.
You
know
unemployment
benefits,
I'm.
C
B
B
B
B
Last
year,
or
so
and
there's
a
hotel
who
works
in
them,
poor
folks,
all
the
people
a
lot
of
them,
you
know
what
are
they
calling
it
now?
They
got
a
fancy
term
from
the
environmental
staff,
which
means
that
what
the
custodians,
the
people
that
do,
the
rooms
and
their
things,
people
that
work
in
the
kitchen
they're
called
the
environmental
staff
for
some
now,
if.
B
B
Came
through
and
black
says:
okay,
I'm
out
of
here,
see
y'all
later
follow
the
union
soldiers
out
of
town
there's
a
story
that
she
was
saying
and
looked
around
and
said.
Well,
what
am
I
gonna
do
tomorrow?
Who's
gonna
cook
or
who's
gonna
fix
who's,
gonna,
take
care
of
us
who's.
Gonna.
Do
all
those
kinds
of
things.
I
don't
know
you
have
to
figure
it
out,
but
we
gone
and
oh
and
then
somebody
said
she
was
really
upset
when
they
took
her
best
carriage.
B
C
B
We'll
see
you
later
we
out
of
here,
we
got
your
best,
we
might
send
it
back
to
you,
but
right
now
we
headed
out
of
town
and
I'm
sorry,
but
we.
B
Between
them
a
quarter
of
a
mile
down
the
road,
what
are
we
going
to
do?
Where
do
we
go?
You
and
your
children
are
y'all
with
us.
Are
you.
B
There's
even
in
asheville
north
carolina
today
you
see
that
I'm
thinking
that
the
population
of
asheville
may
african
americans
may
have
been
in
the
high
20s
at
one
time,
but
it's
now
when
the
2020
census
come
out,
it
may
be
under
10,
maybe
somewhere
or
eight.
But
then
you
look
at
the
whole
western
north
carolina
says:
oh,
it's
says
ten
percent
in
asheville
city.
Then
it
may
be
five
percent
in
buncombe
county,
but
only
two
percent
in
whole.
B
B
I
hope
it's
celebrated
all
over.
I
saw
something
other
day
where
someone
says
on
july
4th
this
year
that
african
americans
or
people
of
color
wear
black
and
I'm
like
yep.
I
think
that's
what
I'm
going
to
do.
I
got
you
know
no
problem.
Just
go
in
my
closet,
there's
some
black
stuff
in
there.
So
maybe
that
day
I
will
wear
black.
B
In
fact,
I
know
that's
what
I'm
going
to
do
and
celebrations
are
happening
now,
and
I
hope
this
helps
highlight
this
holiday
highlight
this
celebration
day
and
we
can
see
that
it's
even
on
the
national
level.
We
can
see
that
our
president
had
to
rethink
his
plans
because
of
that
it
was
almost
like.
Did
he
even
consider
it?
Oh
did
he
even
consider
talks
of
what
happened
in
toast
in
a
massacre
and
they
even
consider
it
and
now
he's.