TCXPI Presents Celebrate Juneteenth 2023!

TCXPI Presents

Juneteenth Federal Holiday

Monday, June 19, 2023

What is Juneteenth? 

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that celebrates and commemorates the June 19, 1865, emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas and the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. But word did not reach the enslaved in Texas until years later when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and Union Army troops headed to Galveston to enforce the proclamation to free the last enslaved Black Americans. Celebrations erupted everywhere and from that day onward, it was observed in several states. Juneteenth was made a federal holiday in 2021.

When is Juneteenth celebrated? 

In 1865, Texas organized what would be an annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on June 19, according to the History Channel. The commemorations featured music, barbecues, prayer services and other activities still used today. A decade and a half later in 1979, Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth an official holiday, with several other states following. 

Why do we celebrate Juneteenth? 

Juneteenth is a very important day in African American history.

"Juneteenth is a day of profound weight and power. A day in which we remember the moral stain and terrible toll of slavery on our country – what I’ve long called America’s original sin," Biden said in his 2021 proclamation. "A long legacy of systemic racism, inequality, and inhumanity. But it is a day that also reminds us of our incredible capacity to heal, hope, and emerge from our darkest moments with purpose and resolve." 

Source: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth

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KWANZAA AND THE NGUZO SABA

Chinue X's Book List #2

"A sterling effort to bring together ideas and research...in order to begin to build a foundation for an alternative education process for black children" Essie Manuel Rutledge, Contemporary Sociology

"Hale provides parents, teachers and school adminstrators with a model for a "culturally appropriate pedagogy" to insure more-positve educational outcomes for African American Children." from the Foreword by V.P. Franklin

"The seeds for the problem of the 13-21 age group were planted, watered, and cultivated long before, and bear the distinctive bitter fruits of motivation. We as a society continue to reap a weak, bitter harvest because we sow such weak, bitter seeds." Sanyika Anwisye, Co-Director, Frederick Douglas Institure, St. Louis

"Whatever individual or institution controls test construction, test production, test promotion and testmous power over the lives and fortunes of students,teachers, counselors, administrators, and American communites." The Late Norman R. Dixon dissemination exercises enor

African-Centered Education

        In 1994, Haki Madhubuti and Dr. Safisha Mahbubuti, published a small book via Third World Press. It is a 24-page boook that is dynamic in it's subject matter, African -Centered Education, It's Value, Importance, and Necessity in the Development of Black Children. The first paragraph reads:

     "In America, people of African descent are caught between a hurricane and a volcano when it comes to the acquisition of life-giving and life-sustaining knowledge. Too many of our children are trapped in urban schools systems that have been "programmed" for failure. All to often the answer to what must be done to correct this injustice is left in the hands of those most responsible for creating the problem. If your child is sleeping and a rat starts to bite at his/her head you don't ask the rat to please stop biting at your child's brain. If you are a sane, normal, and loving parent, you go on the attack and try your damnedest to kill the rat."

The Madhubutis has stated what has been happening with our children and youth in the educational systems around the world for hundreds of years. Historically, Afrikan and Afrikan Amerikan children and youth have received eurocentric worldview education that has left them mis-guided, mis-informed, and mis-educated.

They discuss in length the Independent Black School Movement, which grew out of the 60s Black empowerment struggles and initiatives. From this movement came the Council of Independent Black Institues (CIBI). They present an African Centered Pedagogy  which produces an education that contributes to achieving pride, equity, power, wealth and culture continuity for Diasporan and Continental Afrikans. The following are goals that are specific to an effective African-Centered Education.

1. Legitimizes african stores of knowledge.
2. Positively exploits and scaffolds productive community and cultural practices.
3. Extends and builds upon the indigenous language.
4. Reinforces community ties and idealizes services to one's family, community, nation, race, and world.
5. Promotes positive social relationships,
6. Imparts a worldview that idealizes a positive, sufficient future for one's people without denying the self-worth and right to self-determination of others.
7. Supports cultural continuity while promoting crtitical consciousness.

Out of honor and respect for our ancestors, we need to began to protest and construct an alternative to the existing education Afrikan children and youth receive. We need to demand an education that speaks to their heritage and history. The alternatives need to be culturally sensitive to ALL children and youth.

To purchase this book and many more contact Third World Press, Chicago Il. http://www.twpbooks.com/catalog/

Afrocentrism in Children and Youth

Greetings to All!

My name is Chinue X (pronounced cheen-way) which means 'God's own Blessing in Igbo Nigeria. My objective in creating this blog is to dialogue on the value and importance of Afrocentrism in Children and Youth.

For too long, Afrikans, both diasporan and continental, have been mis-educated by an euroocentric worldview that has intentionally omitted, distorted and mirepresented the Afrikan contributions to world civilization and the building of the Americas.

No longer do we as Afrikans have to sit in the back of the bus and allow the educational system to de-value, denigrate, distort, and divide our race. No longer do we have to read textbooks that negate and omit our existence, or perpetuate a  supremacist worldview. Thanks to the world wide web, we can access "TRUTH" that is credible and valid on our existence.

My goals are to disseminate true facts on the Afrikan's role as the number one contributor of all cultural aspects of civilization and being and to share resources that will uplift the Afrikan race.

Asante