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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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Alanis Morissette as God || Dogma (1999)

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Hello? Hello. I'm looking for my wife. Wait. Okay... okay... okay. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. You know, I was good in a living room. They'd send me in there, and I'd do it alone. And now I just... But tonight, our little project, our company had a very big night — a very, very big night. But it wasn't complete, wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice or laugh about it with you. I miss my — I miss my wife. We live in a cynical world, a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors JERRY MAGUIRE 1996 | dir. by Cameron Crowe

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Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”

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basic human empathy has got to make a comeback divas

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Choices (3.19)

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FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES 2025, dir. Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein

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Just wait untill my 6 tumblr mutuals hear about this

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DAYS OF BEING WILD dir. Wong Kar-wai, 1990

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Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito

MY COUSIN VINNY (1992)

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Rest peacefully Ananda Lewis (March 21, 1973 – June 11, 2025)

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blocked. and i hope you're never alone in your kitchen

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We made a promise to each other… that we'd be together forever. Silent Hill f (September 25, 2025)

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sometimes life puts you in the same situation again to see if you’re still a dumbass