The Black Student Unions at Edmonds School District high schools have collaborated to sponsor a Juneteenth Day of Action, education and solidarity around the Black freedom from slavery and the ongoing Black struggle for freedom, Friday, June 19.
Attendees will gather at College Place Middle School, 7501 208th St. S.W., Lynnwood, starting at 10 a.m. to make posters, followed by an 11 a.m. march from College Place Middle to the Edmonds School District administration office.
At noon, attendees are encouraged on their own to shop Black-owned businesses, read Black authors, boost Black voices on social media, dance to Black music, and recite Black poetry. A list of resources will be provided.
And at 7 p.m. Friday, there will be a community candlelight vigil for Black lives at Meadowdale High School, 6002 168th St. S.W., Lynnwood. Masks, gloves and hand sanitizer will be provided, and attendees are asked to maintain social distancing guidelines.
You can see a list of Black-owned Snohomish County businesses here.
A black fist and demands, what a nice welcoming poster.
Linda –
Well, I’m certain there were plenty of Suffragettes who pumped their fists too. They were fed up with being second-class citizens, being denied the right to vote and to have equal legal and societal status–and had to resort to property destruction, risking their lives, and breaking the law to achieve a bruising (literally), hard-won victory.
Blacks have likewise struggled mightily to gain equal rights–suffering decade upon decade of unspeakable repercussions inflicted by whites to keep Blacks in their “place.” Even then, quietly uttering “yessir” and “yesm” and being good “n____s” didn’t always spare them from punishment. So I say, hooray for the Black fist symbol and demands for equal rights. It’s way past due.
I encourage reading “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead for starters. It’s fiction woven into history and is very enlightening.
Thank you.
Eiya,
I just knew that Linda’s colors would come thru again in another one of her comments that seem to indicate her fear with others who do not look, or think like her. I kind of enjoy seeing, in my opinion, her comments so that I can appreciate that I, and many others, do not live in the same world she appears to live in. It is sad. Your comments were well stated and appreciated by myself, and hopefully the many others who have gone thru struggles, or have strived to reduced the oppressive feelings that some people seem to harbor for others, just because they are different, or did not experience the same things as themselves. Thank you Eiya for your comments.
Thanks for your encouraging comments, Mike. What’s that old saying about “walk a mile in my shoes…”? The world be a much better if we all lived by that piece of wisdom.
Eiya and Mike: I agree with both of you. I understand Mr. Whitehead’s book, The Underground Railroad” is excellent and I hope to get it after the library opens. Thank-you for letters.
Interesting you note the COLOR of the fist.