NHFD Tees Into Juneteenth

The celebration takes the form of wearing newly printed T‑shirts. The red shirts read ​“Juneteenth” on the right shoulder with the number 19. while the opposing shoulder depicts an American flag. The front and back of the shirt read ​“City of New Haven Fire Department.”


The shirt has the American flag.Are you kidding.Black people was enslaved under the American flag.Where is the RED BLACK GREEN FLAG? I will not be celebrating juneteenth because. Just like Kwanzaa. Juneteenth is next to be whitewashed and commercialized.

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I love the fact that the profits from the sale of the t-shirts is for supporting sickle cell research, which disproportionately impacts people of African ancestry descent.
Juneteenth is wonderful way to celebrate a victory over the beginning of the end of a terrible tragedy of the system of enslavement of people of African descent in America. When so many government officials around our country are denying the teaching of or recognizing the facts of this shameful part of American history, or the impacts of that evil system that continue to this day as a result of this injustice, it is very important to stand up and commemorate the holiday to keep the conversation alive and not allow the history to be denied.
The American flag not only represents our country, and all of its history, good and bad, it also represents Americans, and for far to long racists and white supremacists have denied that people of African descent are equal Americans, and denied them their civil rights as citizens of this country. Our country’s flag belongs to all of us. Many have shed blood, sweat and tears under that flag, and in defense of that flag, and the country it represents, and by displaying the flag on a shirt celebrating Juneteenth, it reminds those who would deny people of African ancestry of their full rights as an American, that it is their flag too.

@Heather C.How come they did not put the Juneteenth Flag on the shirts?

The American flag not only represents our country, and all of its history, good and bad, it also represents Americans.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Malcolm X

Ask Black Soldiers who return home and Had to sit in the back of the bus about that Flag.Ask Tommie Smith and John Carlos about that Flag.The Red Black and Green FLAG is not tied to oppression or hatred of any other race. The Red on the flag represents blood, The blood that unites all people of black ancestry, The Black on the flag represents “the people whose existence as a nation.The Green on the flag represents the land and the abundant natural wealth of Africa.Also Juneteenth only free enslaved people in Texas.Not the whole country.Freedom for the Black people I know is when this country pay us our slavery reparations.

To follow-on 3/5s comment, celebrating Juneteenth makes sense for Galveston and Texas, but no sense for Connecticut, which abolished slavery in 1848, or the nation, which kept 250,000 people enslaved for six months after "Juneteenth". Slavery ended only with the adoption of the 13th Amendment, not with Union Victory or the Emancipation Proclamation.

ThreeFifths- “ Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.”
I respectfully disagree. If you are born here, you are automatically an American. And we have to keep fighting to be given the same rights and respect and opportunities as a white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, primarily Christian male that our country has prioritized.
Women were considered property and as less than full human beings, our hard won rights over our bodies is being taken away, women still do not have an equal rights amendment, trans persons rights over their bodies, their rights to live, work, and more are under attack, homosexual rights to live, work, and be treated as equals is under attack, disabled persons right to work, to move about freely, and more is not supported, native indigenous peoples are not given rights to not have pipelines go through their reservation land, and nuclear waste and other contamination and tourists dumping in their sacred lands, and have not been given sufficient reparations for the genocide and theft our government has deliberately targeted them with, and all of the above are having their right to vote being harmed by those who would not like them to have a say over who represents and rules over them in our three branches of government.
Just because we are treated as “less than” and do not have equal rights or opportunities, does not make any of us less American.
We have to fight that much harder to be fully accepted as equals and for equity and for the right to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and justice and freedom from fear and want, and not allow those in power or those who would deny us our rights, to deny us our rights as full status Americans.
We are not “less than” Americans.
We are Americans.
And we need to remind those who would deny us our rights, that we are full status Americans.

Heather C.
Jun 11, 2022 8:15 am

ThreeFifths- “ Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.”
I respectfully disagree. If you are born here, you are automatically an American. And we have to keep fighting to be given the same rights and respect and opportunities as a white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, primarily Christian male that our country has prioritized.

You need to listen to the “The Ballot or the Bullet”by Malcolm X

Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn’t need any legislation; you wouldn’t need any
amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn’t be faced with civil-rights filibustering in
Washington, D.C., right now. They don’t have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American.. . . I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare . . .
Malcolm X
How about the Dred Scott case which the Supreme Court ruled that no black could claim U.S. citizenship?

THREEFIFTHS- that’s why we have to keep fighting, and standing up for each other’s rights, to make this country accept us all fully as Americans, and not “ less than.”
And as an American, I refuse to let those in power, deny us our rights or our status as full Americans.

Legally, Heather and 1644 are right - being born in this country makes you an American citizen. Race should not affect a citizen’s rights and privileges. But historically it has.

1644 and Three-fifths, you’re correct that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to part of the South and Juneteenth to an even smaller geography. But I would hope that freedom is a universal value, to be celebrated broadly.

Three-fifths, all humans (even those of us who are really pale) are “of black ancestry.” The human species originated in Africa and for the bulk of its history all humans lived there. And the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, where most of my ancestors came from, were brown/black. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/early-irish-people-were-dark-skinned-with-blue-eyes-documentary-1.4541124.

Kevin McCarthy
Jun 13, 2022 8:42 am

Legally, Heather and 1644 are right - being born in this country makes you an American citizen. Race should not affect a citizen’s rights and privileges. But historically it has.

You made Brother Malcolm X point when he Said.

Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn’t need any legislation; you wouldn’t need any
amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn’t be faced with civil-rights filibustering in
Washington, D.C., right now. They don’t have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American.. . . I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare . . .
Malcolm X

Three-fifths, all humans (even those of us who are really pale) are “of black ancestry.” The human species originated in Africa and for the bulk of its history all humans lived there

Then why do they not Claim it. South Africans were classified on the basis of their 'race'. People were classified into one of four groups: 'native', 'coloured', 'Asian' or 'white'. By 1966, 11 million people had been classified under the Population Registration Act of 1950.

Have you every read the works of Dr.John HENRIK CLARKE?

Black History: An Afrocentric View by John Henrik Clarke (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETEFY8oUPU

WestvilleMan, ThreeFifths knows more about certain aspects of history than I do. I do not know that he claims to be an expert.

Three-Fifths, you definitely know more about the history of American race relations than me. That history answers your question. And the understanding that the human species had its origins in Africa is relatively recent. (Archeology in sub-Sahara Africa began about a century ago.) For centuries, Westerners read the Bible as saying that the species had its beginnings in the Middle East.

Fake news purveyor CNN's Haarmut Kaar falsely says Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the US:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/us/juneteenth-federal-holiday-what-to-know-cec/index.html
Yale joined CNN in miseducating the public, with, "Juneteenth: Remembering and honoring the day slavery ended" in an ignorant article by Susan Gonzales in Yale News.