Twitter joined in on the Juneteenth celebration, highlighting the holiday with funny tributes and timely historical facts.
Here are 19 Juneteenth Tweets that hit the nail on the head.
Today we celebrate #Juneteenth! pic.twitter.com/tSxp1e45vx
— Kalen Allen (@TheKalenAllen) June 19, 2019
Since #Google did not make a doodle for #Juneteenth, here is one pic.twitter.com/P3o5UuWkXY
— Courtney Mack (@cmacklibrarian) June 19, 2019
Happy Juneteenth! Here's one of my fav images of an Emancipation Day celebration, in Philadelphia in 1905 (note, Northern communities celebrated Emancipation on Jan 1st, the date the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, NY celebrated on July 5 and TX originated Juneteenth) pic.twitter.com/QgDzlawFqu
— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) June 19, 2019
Coming off of yesterday's comments, the ACLU had to put Mitch McConnell in his place. No Mr. McConnell, a Black president of the United States is not reparations for all the hardships we have faced in the past, present and possibly in the future.
Mitch McConnell is wrong: we do need to "deal with" slavery and its impact on society TODAY. Mass incarceration, the wealth gap, & health inequities are just some examples of lingering damage.#Juneteenth
#TheMarchContinues
pic.twitter.com/0GJ6SpsOGY— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 19, 2019
"In many ways, #Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for black people." via @vox: https://t.co/KjhlSZpplP
pic.twitter.com/e1v7KNzyda— AFSCME Council 5 (@AFSCMEMN5) June 19, 2019
The Doors of No Return in
Ouidah, Benin
Elmina, Ghana
Gorée Island, Senegal
These are memorials and slave castles in the last places that those who were taken into slavery had touched in their homelands. Happy Juneteenth☀️ pic.twitter.com/h4QyYQSGZS— nigga of niggish descent (@akatayonce) June 19, 2019
juneteenth mood: pic.twitter.com/Mfleg3YpSo
— Lauren Chanel Allen (@MichelleHux) June 19, 2019
One day…there’ll be a Juneteenth with these available.. pic.twitter.com/W2f8kJlrUk
— Kenny Mayne (@Kenny_Mayne) June 19, 2019
Happy #Juneteenth. Proceed accordingly! pic.twitter.com/7xeGtC4qBA
— ⚖️ TIᖴᖴᗩᑎY ᑎ KITᕼᑕᗩᖇT ☮️ (@tnkithcart) June 19, 2019
I’ve said this before but because today is Juneteenth it feels appropriate to say again: interview your older family members while they’re still alive. There’s so much history. My grandmother’s grandfather, who raised her, was born an enslaved person. I didn’t know until I asked.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) June 19, 2019
Some of the day's best tweets offered a bit of insight on the hardships faced by our ancestors, relatives and ourselves.
The chart below is a visual of the plight of African Americans, only the green should actually begin with the Civil Rights Act of 1968.#Reparations#Juneteenth
pic.twitter.com/mfH0CeAnLp— LightNDarkness (@PoetTLStarr) June 19, 2019
Happy Juneteenth???????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/w70Hr5hEY5
— Naturall Club (@naturallclub) June 19, 2019
This #Juneteenth we celebrate Black LGBTQ advocates who "lived by the idea that we aren't truly free until all of us are." ✊????????️????
Audre Lorde
James Baldwin
Marsha P. Johnson
Bayard Rustin
Barbara Smith
Andrea Jenkins
Phil Wilson
…and so many more.https://t.co/U8ZQI5eFYv— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) June 19, 2019
This is at my job right now, we’re having a #Juneteenth lunch celebration ✊????❤️ #LifeAt2U
pic.twitter.com/qkZAhflv7D— Real Hot Girl Nik ✨ (@Nikki2Good_) June 19, 2019
happy Juneteenth. pic.twitter.com/4dibdK3Zpt
— Amahra (@heymahra) June 19, 2019
Black people should have #Juneteenth off work.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 19, 2019
Throwback to Juneteenth 2014 in Galveston where I finally met Frederick Douglass, who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more. pic.twitter.com/SXubqmdEI9
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 19, 2019
Outside the Oval Office, I kept a painting of a small crowd huddled around a pocketwatch, waiting for the moment the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. On Juneteenth, we celebrate the anniversary of that news – freedom – reaching slaves in Texas. And something more: pic.twitter.com/kSkLHbfnc3
Last, but not least, our forever President Barack Obama chimed in to let us in on some of his own family history.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2019
This is my grandmother. Born in Goodwill, Texas 106 years ago. She is very much alive. Her grandfather was born enslaved and was freed on #Juneteenth. She can recall family accounts of slavery. This is recent history. American history. #Reparations
pic.twitter.com/9fRnbafzQZ— Sonya Childress (@SonyaChildress) June 19, 2019
Happy Juneteenth y'all!
