We need to reconstruct media systems built on violence, specifically anti-Black violence.
"informed all Texans that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves were free," is the day that we know as Juneteenth today.Do you think the exaltations shook fear out of the ground?Juneteenth is a celebration of the news that informed Black people throughout Texas that the institution of slavery had been abolished—despite the Emancipation Proclamation marking the legislative end of slavery nearly two and a half years earlier.
The media system, from news and publishing to music and entertainment, helped construct the narratives that played a critical role in upholding violent institutions like slavery. A world where Black people of the diaspora get to tell their own stories, from ideation to distribution, is possible. Just as Juneteenth was inevitable, so is the realization of reparations. In order to achieve full reparations, we need to reconstruct media systems built on violence, specifically anti-Black violence.
A major driver of this undoing was media outlets and the narratives they promoted. The Daughters of the American Confederacy and many other forces spearheaded rallies, speeches, books, stories, and even films to perpetuate a false revisionist narrative known as""—the idea that Confederates were not brutal enslavers and traitors to the United States, but heroic victims of Northern aggression.
Many in the South became convinced that Black people had been happy members of Southern plantation families, like those portrayed in the book and filmBecause none of these narratives were explicitly refuted, we have yet to get full restitution for the atrocities committed during slavery and in the decades since. We've yet to see systems change enough to ensure the full thriving of all people.
There is a long list of the harms of capitalist White supremacists from 1704 to the present day in our media system, which we chronicle in a
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