{"id":5112,"date":"2020-06-19T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2023-06-21T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:36:55","slug":"happy-juneteenth-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Happy Juneteenth Everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juneteenth 2020\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cGWRaH46yNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Today was one of the most uplifting days in recent memory. The place that I work had us cancel all our meetings so we could attend some talks with significant Black Americans that have made a difference. We had Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Ava DuVernay, Eric Holder, Sybrina Fulton and DeRay McKesson as well as other rockstars from our internal team.<br>In the middle of this day of presentations, a parade of what looked like 2000 people go by the house. This footage is just a short sampling of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gave me uplifting joy because it seemed that people were finally awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I care about humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much so that I have to hide behind a &#8220;not caring&#8221; mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s holiday has been the first meaningful holiday I&#8217;ve experienced in my entire life. The talks give me hope and corroborated many ideas that have been knocking around my head since lockdown began. I&#8217;m thriving during this pandemic because minds are getting opened!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I could share Dr. Dyson&#8217;s talk with all of you far and wide but I can&#8217;t. What I can share is a tiny paragraph in his talk where he quoted George Clinton, &#8220;Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powerful words because minds all over the world are being freed and we can now move forward into an age of enlightenment Welcome to the 21st century! I&#8217;ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was one of the most uplifting days in recent memory. The place that I work had us cancel all our meetings so we could attend some talks with significant Black Americans that have made a difference. We had Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Ava DuVernay, Eric Holder, Sybrina Fulton and DeRay McKesson as well as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=5112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Juneteenth Everybody!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}