[captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> it is so exciting and electrifying. it is so nice to say people saying black lives matter. years w we work of the have donone, and i am ready to cocontinue to fight. amy: the supreme court blocks

president trump's move to end a program that protects 700,000 immigrants from deportation through the daca program. we'll get response from two daca recipients -- luis cortes, one of the lawyers who argued the case before the court, and erika andiola. then, trump was originally scheduled to speak in tulsa today, a highly symbolic day known as juneteenth, when in 1865, two years after abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, enslaved people in texas first learned they were free. >> no, he did not say that. now, six months, that is it, six months, and finally, on the 19th of june, that is when they knew, that day. amy: we'll go to texas to look at the significance of juneteenth withistoriagegerald horne, and 'll gto tulsa,

oklamama, toooook athe s spi of covid9 9 casetherere ead ofof trump's rally,nd to ta about e deadlyassacre ere of me 300 bck peoplby whites -- by a wte mob yrs ago. 99weill speawith dr.iffany crutcher, whose twin brother was killed by police there years ago. ththeir great-grandmother survrd the tolls s of race massacre. all that and more, coming up. wewelcome to dememocracy now, democracynynow.org, the quarante report. i'i'm amy goodman. in a massive win for immigrant rights, the supreme court has ruled against president trump's attempts to end daca, a program that protects nearly 700,000 immigrants from deportation. in 2017, trump tried to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, created by president obama in 2012.

but in thursday's 5-4 decision, led by chief justice john roberts, the court concluded trump's "total rescission" of daca was, , quote, "arbitrary yd capricious." a group of dreamers celebrated the ruling outside the supreme court. greisa martinez rosas is the deputy director of united we dream. greisa: i am elated. i am really affirmed by the movement of young people organizing, 11 million undocumented people demanding exactly what we deserve. to be, so o i am honored here today, bececause it is importanant that w we keep fighg for r more. amy: we'll have more on the daca ruruling after headlinines. the global death toll from the covid-19 pandemic has topppped 450,000, and the spread of the coronavirus continues to accelerarate in much oththe wor. "the new y york times" reports 7 nations haveepeported a growth inin new cases over the past two weeks. on thursday, a number of countries, including mexico and indonesia, reported a record one-day incrcrease in confirmed cacases.

here in the united states, the u.s. coronavirus death toll has topped 118,000. california hasas ordered resides to wear masks outside. california gavin newsom issued the order thursday a day after california reported a record 4000 new covid cases on wednesday. on thursday, florida reported 3207 coronavirus cases, shattering the previous one-day hi. high. the navajo nation has reinstated a weekend lockdown due to a recent surge in covid cases in arizona. at least 322 navajos have already died from covid -- a toll higher than 16 states. in other news from arizona, a county sheriff, who refused to enforce the state's stay-at-home restrictions, has now tested positive for conavirus.

sheriff ma l lamb pininal counun tested positive, just beforee e was heduduleto avel to washingtonon to attendna ceremony for president trump's new policing executive order. meanwhile, oklahoma reported a record number of new covid cases on thursday for the fifth consecutive day. president trump is traveling to tulsa, oklahoma on saturday for his first large indoor rally in months. trump has refused to cancel the event, despite warnings from public health officials, who fear the rally could turn into a "super-spreader event." attendees will be asked to sign coronavirus liability waivers to prevent future lawsuits against the campaign. but they will not be required do wearar a mask. trumump is also exexpected to be greeted by protesters in tulsa. the filmmaker eugene jarecki has announced he is bringing the trump death clock to tulsa. the clock tallies the number of american lives lost due to govevernment inaction during the pandememic. the e toll is now overer 71,000. president trump was originally slated to speak in tulsa today, on the holiday known as juneteenth. it was june 19, 1865 that enslaved africans in texas first learned they were free, two

years after abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. trump moved the date of the speech after facing widespread crititicism. on thursday, trump told the "wall street journal," quote, "i did something good -- i made juneteenth very famous. it's actually an important event, an important time. but nobody had ever heard of it." "the walall street journal" rereports trump learned of t holiliy, which h has been celebrated for over 150 years, from one of his own secret service agents, who is black. meanwhile, members of the international longshore and warehouse union plan to mark juneteenth by shutting down the country's west coast ports to show solidarity with the black lives matter movement. and in washington, house speaker nancy pelosi ordered the removal of four confederate portraits from the house ahead of juneteenth. speaker pelosi: there''s no room in the hallowed halls of democracy to memorialize people who embody y violent bigotry a d

grotesesque racism of the confederacy. was a confefederate m monument also removeded overnight in decatur, georgiaia. in news s from atltlanta, the to polilicefffficers chararged in e kikilling of rayshard brooks in the parking lot of a wendy's turned themselves in on thursday. former officer garrett rolfe, who faces felony murder and 10 other charges, is being held without bond. he was reportedly removed from the fulton county jail to another facility due to security concerns. officer devin brosnan, who faces an aggravated assault charge, was released on thursday after posting bond. meanwhile, the atlanta police foundation has announced it is giving every police officer in atlanta a $500 bonus. the news came less than a day after officers in the department staged a sick out to protest charges filed over the killing of rayshard brooks. the air force inspector general has launched a probe into the use of m military surveieillance airplanenes to m monitor protess in washingngton, d.c. and minneapolis.

the planes reportetedly beamed live footage to law enforcement agencies, inclcluding the fbi. "the new york times" repeports n elite e special operatations unf the pennsylvania national guard supported the aircraft from the grouound in washingtonon. one of the higighest-ranking rican americans in the trump administration has resigned in protest. on thursday, mary elizabeth taylor submitted her resignation as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. in her resignation letter, taylor wrote, quote, "the president's comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and black americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions." prior to her state department post, she worked in the trump white house and as an aide to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. at the white house, she helped shepherd more than 400 presidential appointments through the senate confirmation process, including supreme court justice neil gorsuch. during gorsuch's televised confirmation hearing, she

-- taylor prprominently sat behd him every daday. in political news, minnesota senator amy klobuchar has removed herself from consideration to be joe biden's running mate. on thursdaday, she urgrged bideo pickck a woman o of color. ananother 1.5 5 million pepeopld unemploymentlalaims st w wee bringing theototal tover 45 milllln since e cocorovirurus crisis began. this marks the 13th week in a row in which more than a million people filed for unemployment. this comes as the wealth of the nation's billionaires keeps soaring. this according to a report by americans for tax fairness. d, amazonis perio fofounder jeffff bezos alone has made $ $44 billion. facebook c ceo mark zuckerberg's made $32 billion. in other facebook news, the social platform has taken down a

trump campaign ad that displayed a symbol once used by the nazis. the red triangle was used by nazis to identify communists and other political prisoners in concentration camps. facebook claimed the post violated its policy against "organized hate." the move came a day after the naacp and other civil rights groups called on advertisers to boycott facebook during the month of july as part of the campaign called "stop hate for profit." twitter has labeled a doctored video tweeted by trump to be "manipulated media" for the first time. the fake video purported to be a cnn report about a racist baby. in brazil, authorities have arrested the former adviser and driver of senator and son of president jair bolsonaro, flavio bolsonaro, as part of an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of salaries paid to phantom employees in rio de janeiro's assembly. at the time, between 2016 andd 2017, flavio was a rioio de janeiro state lawmakerer.

in religious news, the vatican is urging catholics s to divest from fossil fuel industries and arms manufacturers. last month, a group 42 methodist, anglican, quaker, buddhist, and catholic organizations isissued a joint pledge to divest from fossil fuel companies. in climate news, new research shows pregegnant people in the united states who are exposed to high temperatures and air pollution, triggered by the climimate crisis, are far more likely to have children who are premature, underweight, or stillborn. the study says black pregnant people and newborn babies are particularly at risk -- as african americans are more likely to be forceced to live in polluted areas. a group of major wall street investors s are pouring moneneyo an effort to defeat new york congresswowoman alexandria ocasio-cortez in next week's

democratic primary. goldman sachs ceo david solomon, blackstone ceo steve schwarzman, and hedge fund billionaire paul tudor jones have all backed aoc's challenger michelle caruso-cabrera, a former cnbc reporter, who was a registered republican until 2015. egypt's crackdown on the lgbt community is back in the spotlight this week, after a prominent queer egyptian activist died by suicide in toronto, canada, where she had sought asylum. sarah hegazy was 30 years old. three years ago, egyptian authorities detained her after she was photographed waving a rainbow flag at a rock concert. authorities charged her with, quote, "promoting sexual deviancy and debauchery." in detention, she was tortured with electric shocks and hd d in solitary connenement. she wawas releasedftfter three months but continued to face death ththreats. she ththen fled to c canada. this is moststafa fouad, h her lawyer a and friend. mostafa: [speaking foreigngn language] translator: inin her lettersrs m

jailil, she used t to say the wd will onlnly change e through lo, no matter how w they hate me or hate peoplple like me, no matttr how theyey h hate people who are different. ststill, the only thing that wil change the world is love andnd coexistence. this was her true faith and life, that humanity is what would save the world. amy: iconic amazon indigenous kayapo chief paulinho paiakan has died of covid-19. he was 66 years old. paiakan was a lifelong defender of the amazon rainforest, who in the 1980's led the resistance against the belo monte hydroelectric project, an environmentally destructive massive complex of dams planned to be built on the xingu river in the heart of the amazon. the project was successfully suspended at the time, but later reinstated in 2011. in recent years, paiakan had warned against brazilian president jair bolsonaro's calls to open the amazon for agriculture and mining. as coronavirus cases continue to surge in brazil, the pandemic has taken a toll on indigenous

communities, with nearly 5500 reported cases and close to 300 deaths. you can go to o our interview wh ththe great photographer to talk about the situation in the brazilian amazon. and a correction. on wednesday, wewe reported on e death of "tetete" gulley, a blak trans woman, who was found hanged from a a tree in portland oregon.. she died i in may y 2019, not lt -- not in 2020. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy nonow, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. in a major s setback for presidt trump, the supupreme court has ruled against his s attempt to d a program that protects nearly 700,000 immigrants from deportation. in 2017, trump tried to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca, program, which was created by president obama in 2012. but in a 5-4 decision led by chief justice john roberts, the

court concluded trump's move to end daca "was arbitrary and capricious." the decision follows the high court's ruling monday barring workplace discrimination against lgbtq people, and prompted trump to tweet thursday, quote, "do you get the impression that the supreme court doesn't like me?" trump called the decisions, quote, "shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves republicans or conservatives," and wrote, quote, "we need more justices or we will lose our 2nd amendment & everytything else. vote trump 2020!" trump can still try to end daca in other ways, based on the court's narrow ruling, but that could alienate voters in key election battleground states. meanwhile, presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden issued a statement thursday promising to send a bill to congress on his first day in office that, quote, "creates a clear roadmap to citizenship for dreamers and 11 million undocumented people who are already strengthening our nation." for now, daca recipients are still protected from deportation

and have authorization to work in the united states. for r more, we are j joined in seattle by one of ththe lawyeres who defefended daca in thehe sue court. luis cortes is an attorney with the immigrant advocacy and litigation center. he is also a daca recipient himself. alalso with us from phoenix, arizona, erika andiola is with us, advocacacy chief at raices, the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services, and host of the podcast "homeland insecurity." well, let's go to you, luis. congratutulations on your victo, on this victory for the united states. luis cortes,s, what t was it lio be in the susupreme e couranand explplain the e court's decisio? luis: well, we had hundreds of people -- you could begin again, i'm sorry. we just got your mic on. luis:: good morningng, and thank

you for having me on. one of the things i remember vividly is actually entering the supreme cocourt and the hundreds of people whoo outside, dedemonstrtrating outside e andn support of not jusust daca but broader protectitions, bececaust dacaded me of what t got us to begin with. being able to share the storiess wiwith the supreme court justics i think was very important as a that because ultimately, moved to chief justice roberts in our case was the stories that we have seen throughout hihis opinion. amy: so explainin exactlyly what this rululing says. luis: yeah, so, the ruling really strikes down president trump's decision to terminate daca on a p procedural ground. he is not saying that he cannot endd the program, he isis saying the way in which he ultimately terminated the program was

unlawful. so he cannot come now and terminate the program, however, we know that that will take some time. it will take them into the november election, and ultimately what is asked to do isterminate a program that overwhelmingly supported by the american people during the pandemic and justify his reasons doing so, a and i thihink people gogoing to make some decisions come n november r if he decideso do so again. so what youou describeded this as a n narrow ruling, and what exactly does that m mean, in tes of applying g today for daca? luis: well, it is a a no rulingn the determinant -- in that it terminates the ruling of dacaca. the department of homeless sesecurity has at some very strg words against the dececision, bt nothing concrete yet in terms of the actual mechanics of how it is going to work. we know that they are going to

have to comply with the court order, but the timing of it is still left to be seen, so we are going to have to wait toee some agency guidance on that, and we will work for the next few days to see what they say. amy: this is not only a significant national victory for you, and you are part of the team who argued for the e case n front of the supreme court, , yu yoyourself are a a daca recipie. can you talk about that? luis: yeah,h, so, onee of the things that we s set out to do here in the case was, in the ststate of california and the uc region played a very important role in helping us crack the case but we wanted to make sure that the story of the daca recipients, who o our liveses we the ones impacted by this, are told not just to the justices but the judges who were citing the cacase initially. it was such an honor to be able to help represent the hundreds of thousands of daca recipients.

we are not just talking about daca recipients, it is people in the community, doctors, patients, lawyers, clients, we are talking about millions of people here. and for someone like me who has really learned to, as a lawyer, trust the american court system to do the just thing, it was an honor to be a part of the case. amy: can you talk abobout your n personal story a and also scenes thatat chief justice roberts was moved by individidual stories? was born inso i i mexico, , and i came to the e ud states when n i was about one-year-old to die grove e in california, soso i consider mysf "a"a california guy."." the experience fofor a lot of people who are u undocumenteteda series o of ents. i knew that t i was undocumented from a young age, but i i was figuring out what that really meant throughout the course of my life, the limitations, the

types of restrictions that we have, either from not getting drivers licenses or not being able to apppply for financial a, so really that stemmed all the way up until my adult life, when i went to law school get i went to law school before there was daca. fromw it would prohibit me being able to practice law, and it was not until my last year of law school that daca came out. the timing of it could not have been better, and it has allowed me to advocate for other clients, so i am so grateful had ayou know, we have lot of young activists early on tot pushed president obama protect -- stopping deportations of young people. now, it is not a perfect solution. obviously, we would w want protection for all of the undocumented community here, but it was a good step in the right direction. amy: i wanted to bring erika andidiola into this of raices.

recipient -- cket a a daca rececipient. can you talk about your reaction yesterday when you heard t the news? erika: i was so surprised. unlike luis, i was not in the ins s and out of the case, i was gegearing up for somemething negative. i woke up really earlyly to hear that, , you know, ththis was renewed, a and, youu know, i i s really proud. i was reallyly proud because, yu know basically the first thing that came out t of my mind was e pushshed obama, and we defeated trump in court. because of movement building, because of organizing, the courage of millions of people, i mean, daca recipients, even some of our f family membes whoo help them out and said d we are e undocumented and afraid.

we took the steps to come out of 2009,adows, y you know, in 2010, and some people even beforere that, and it has s been worth it.. , and alsoally proroud understanding that, you know, we are a bigger community. our r family members, community members are a also struggling, t said, i it is a step p in the right direction, but it is something to celebrate, even though we have to keep adding for more. amy: can you respond to trump's and then what vice president biden said, the former vivice president, who is running for president, against trump, of course? ump said "this is a shotgun blast in the face," and he asked if the supreme court like him anymore. biden talked a about when he wod do his first d day in office. yourur response to both, erika. erika: on the trump sidide, it d not work out for him.

what he wanted to do was used a coverage defense as a -- usee daca recipients as a bargaining this in 2017saw when he took the program away, the first thing he said was he had a a tough hartrtford dreame. theaw thahat by y taking away program, taking it b back to congngress and saying if youou t to supportrt and helelp daca recipients, but t here is everything i want to do with asylum. this is everything i want to do to cut immigration and get people who i don't want out of the e country. and so, you know, it did not work out for him, and, you know, again, we won. we won agagainst himim in court, which is incredible. on biden, i understand therere s a need right now to talk a about legislation and congress, and we want congress to act, but it is important, because we also what happened with obama in 2000 --

when he was running into thousand eight, that he was talking about doing immigration reform his first day in office, and he did not do it, and he deported 3 million people or more. what we want to hear from biden is what is he going to do to undo everything that the obama administration and the trump administration have done with the deportation machine, and that he can, in day one, do so much with executive power. we are hoping that not only is he talking about that, and he is talking about policies, but he actually doesn't if elected as president. about it. erika, , talk you are a daca recipient. talked about your mother being in deportatation proceedings. can you talk about that and other cases you are focused on right now? reliefyeah, it is a big for me, , it is a big relief for my little brbrother. we are able to work right now, we are able e to be safe from

deportatatn, but itt is alsoso painful l to still experience or family members, , you know, my m is in deportation prproceedings. my house was raided into thousand 13, right after i had gotten my daca for the first time, so this is a bigger fight. we are fighting right now, you know, to abolish i.c.e., and we say this all the time, but this is a perfect time for congress, you know, as we are talking police,funding the talking about the black l lives matterer movement,t, we want tho happen, and we are also asking ber, you know, i.c.e. to defunded as welcome as the first step to abolish it, and i think democrats can do it in the house, it isis time to start taking m money awaway from the deportatioion force that is takg our own family members, even though we are protected,, you knknow, 11 million pepeople in s country are not, they are still vulnererable, likeke my mom.

amy: finally, luis cortes, united we drdream tweeteted that must be expected, but dhs, the department of homeland security, have not confirmed t they are accepting themem yet. do with this they major supreme court ruling? luis: i want people to getet ready. the initial applicatioions, you know, t there's a lot of paperwk you need to show, there's a lot of evidence for initial applicatioions. we know that there was a mini generatition left out of the daa program whoho are now graduating from high school or maybe have already graduated from high school. get your documents ready. most of the time, daca applications cannot be prepared in one day, so get everything ready so that when the agency provides some guidance as to when they will accept applications, which shouldld be soon, then be ready toto do so.. amy: luis cortes, we want to thank you for being with us, and

graduations, immigrant advocacy and litigation center, daca recipient, argued with part ofof ththe team that argueded the cae beforere the supreme court.. and erika andiola, who is advocacy head of raices, and has just launched the podcast "homeland insecurity." this is democracy now. when we come back, we will talk about this day, and this day in history. juneteenth. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: "freedom day" by abbiee ncoln and max roach. this is democracynow, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i am amy goodman. president trump was originally slated to speak in tulsa today june 19, a highly symbolic day. a holiday celebrated around the country as juneteenth. it was june 19, 1865, that enslaved people in texas first learned they were free, two years after abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. trump moved his rally forward by one day after facing widespread criticism. on thursday, he told the wall

-- he told the "wall street journal," "i did something good: i made juneteenth very famous. it's actually an important event, an important time. but nobody had ever heard of it." in fact, 47 states and the district of columbia already recognize juneteenth as a state or ceremonial holiday. senators kamala harris, corey booker, and republican john cornyn now say they want to make itit a national l holiday. it is already an official paid holiday for state employees in four states, including texas and new york. it was in galveston, texas when enslaved people on june 19th, 1965 first heard of their liberation following the civil war. on that day, union army general gordon granger publicly read general order number 3, which stated, quote, "the people of texas are informed that all slaves are free." word spread and spontaneous celebrations ensued. it had been more than two and a half years sincece president lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation.

in a 194941 audio interview, recorded by the library of congress, laura smalley, born into slavery in texas, recalled learning of her frfreedom as a child. the plplantation owner who enslaved h her, mrmr. bethany,yd returned from war, but didn't tell those he e enslaved that te confederacy had lost, and that they were free. mr. smalley -- he did not tell us we were free. >> he did not tell you you are free? no.smalley: we did not learnrn until the 19h of june, and that is why we still celebrate that day, colored folks, we still celebrate that day. amy: for more, we go to houston, texas, where celebrations marking juneteenth will take place today, as they have since

the 1890''s. we are joined by professor of history and african american studies at the univeversity of houston, and author of many books, including one just published this month, "the dawning of the apocacapse:e: the roots of slavery, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and capitalism in the long sixteenth century." welcome back to democracy now! gerara, can you u talk abobout jujuneteenthth? horne: first o of all, let me thank thohose who arere pushg for it to be a n national l hol. it is long overdue. notanuary of 181863, it d did necessarily extended to texas, where the united states is not exexercise meaniningful soverei. point number two isis that juneteenth also needs to be seen in the context of a larger schememe by slslaveholders in t. you all knknow, i'm sure, , thae celebrate single tamayo,o, --

cinco de mayo,o, may 5, which is a time that mexicans rise u up against a french ruler. recall as well that t texas had seceded from mexico and became an independent republic, not least in whichecause mexexico had moved toward the abolition of slavery under the president of indigenous and african dissent,t, so the idea of the enslavers in 1865 was to try to return to mexico under french rule and e extend the l lease on life of slavery this plot, this scheme may have succeeded before an uprising before the mexican people that drove maximilian out, leading to his execution. that was joined by black soldiers, including an early black historian, george washington williams. you may want to consult the biograraphy of h him, but it isa

remarkable story of black and brown unity against white supremacy that i think we can learn from. amy: and so take us forward from there and explain, first, what exactly abraham lincoln signed with the african of -- 18ncipation proclamation in 63, why it took two years for enslaved people in texas to learn of this. but even with this emancipatition proclamation, it did nonot free and safe peoplele in plplaces like kentu, in p places like maryland and delaware. orne: you have to see the emanancipation proclamatioion aa war fighting measure.. did not n necessarily extend to slslaveholrsrs who remained trte to the lincoln g government. it did remit to stateses like texas, where thehey did not enjy meaniningful sovereignty. then the larger point is, there's evidencece to suggest t

even after june 19, 1865, unpaid labor of africans continued d at least four months, , perhaps longer - -- we stitill need resh on that -- and in n any case, it slavery a rep to, whereby black men in particular werere arrested d on a flimsy pretext and then were leased out p plantationsns, whwhere they formally y had been slave laborers. so thihi is much more complex than i is traditioionally prese, but having s said ththat, once again, i salute ose who are pushshing for a federeral holidy with regard to juneteenth, because it provides an opportunitity to have a t thoroh remembrance of this horrifific system thahat was slavery. it a allows an opportuninity to connect the toxicity of the past to thehe carnage in the ststrees that you just t saw three weeks ago in m minneapololis, minneso,

and just recently in atlanta, georgigia. it allows us to recognize that slavery createted a system and a --ture where black lives black life is cheap and worthless. it created a culture where black life itself is degraded. and also, i should adddd, that when slavery was abolished, the slavaveowners were notot compenensated. of couourse, this is about reparations s today, the descendentnts of slaves, butut unlike the british empmpire in e 1830's, wherere they were compensated, t they were not compensasated, so what that meas is you have a lot of animosity be, to put it end to mildly, to the newly frereed africans, which then boioiled or toto the ku klux klan and led to this mentality to coexist in the multiple policice department suchch as minneapolis, a and the multiple vigilantes, which led

to the death of ahmaud arbery in georgia a month ago. amy: can you talk about the naming of military bases after confedederate generals, not at e time of the confederacy, but decades later -- or even the ecting of these statues all over the south -- i think virginia has many other than other states, erected well after the civil w war, and what the significicance was in ththeh century. itf. . horne: well, represents, clearly, laws cacaue mythologogy. to recognize xixie, the confederacy, lost militarily, did not lose politically, emphasized by the fafact that yu have statueses to the heroes s f enslavement and fewer statues, still, to those who fight against slavery, and fewer statues, still, to the descendents and thehe enslaved

themselvlves. i am happy that speaker pelosi has decided to move these confederate leaders and speakers from the capitalal, howewever, she must be asked -- why did itit take so long? and with regard to these monuments, such as onn lot you meant avenue in richmond, virginia, they represent a version of history. lost causeent a mythology, they represent a history that in some way thetizes and w whitewash is system of enslavement, and in any case, i think is too much to ask black citizens and secular, not to mention democratic leaning people, to subsidize ththese monunuments through ther tax dollars, which repreresentsa viololation of thehe basic precs ofof democracy. amy: you are a history professor, professor horne. you are in houston, texas.

aw w there is going to be trail, a and emancipation trail, that will run 5151 miles fromm gagalveston to houstonon to rete the routute along which families traveled to spreadad the word of emanpation. is trtrue, andat galvlveston should be singled o. galveston wasas major slave art, particulalarly significant number of black people in cuba were basically arriving from africa and taken to galveston, and then shipped to c cuba,a, just lilikeou saw e ship, the vessels of the so-c-called lone star republic f texaxas off t the coast of angon the 1840's and off the coast of brazil in thehe840's,s, where ty were bringing enslaved africans. papart othat corore of enslaved afafricans included d jack talk, the former heavyweight boxing

champion, now deceased,d, who is a man who helped give rise to the great white hope, this mass hysteria a of a black man being g a heavyweight t bacs aoxing champion, there is statue of him in galveston n ase speak.k. and galveston is the home of little esther, who sang "home is where the hatred is," as a new anthem for african americans,, not to mentntion very whihite, e died.-voiced crooner, who amy: "the emanancipation proclamationon came out partly becacause enslaved people were liberated byby the thousands. don'n't let them t tell you we t waited to be free," she said. a absolutely: she is correct, and let me salute the political polarar -- political

prizewinner, she wrote in "the new york times magazine" that a motive forcece against britishsh rule was in regards to preserve the system of enslavement, which is why the confederates in 1861 considered themselves to be walking in the fofootsteps of rl estate s sculator george washington. this a also helps to explain why black people today are treated soso atrociously, because unlike sosome, black people then, and mostly nowow, did nonot engage n class collaboration. they did notot side with t their slave m masters, their slaveholders, in a slaveholders evolt, and when you fight and lose, as they did, you caca expect to be fufull verizonon pepenalized even morore until ty turn the tables, which they did when the haitian revolution. amy: your response,

professor horne, to presidentt trump saying it is he who made the country aware of juneteenth. apparentlyly, he only learned about this hohours bebefore. this was his proof, none knew it, and found a black sesecret servicee agent in t the whitetee who cocould explain it to him. prof. horne: well, i meaean, its laughable. it is ludicrous. it is like a rooster taking credit for the rising g su i do not think we need to take ththat from the mutterings of te ovoval office, we should n not t until agent orange himself lines up in his orange jump seat in in theernational crime hague fofor his international crimes and transgressions. amy: gerald horne, your final comments on this juneteenth, also on this day before president trump gives his address in tulsa, opened his ,ampaign r rally, whwhere so may especially black and brown

people, will be working inside the convention center -- the arena, where he will be speaking, their own lives threatened by the covid-19 surge there, and it being the 99th anniversary of the tolls of race massacre, and amidst ts uprisining against police brutality. prof. horne: well, all of these events, it seems to me, illustrarate central themes in u.s. history. first of all, there is the theme of class struggle, as evidenced by those part of a relationship that was a most profound class exploitation, speakingng of enslavement come outside of the haitian revolution, i already alluded to come a and they fought by the ts of thousands against their slave mamasters, so-called, from 1861o 181865, and then u use all that tradition continue with the san francisco general strike of 1934 by the west coast longshoremen,

who of course are continuing that tradition still by shutting down west coast t ports from seattle to san diego and solidarity with black lives matter and juneteenth. and then the tradition of class collaboration, whereby poor euroropeans ofn times collaborated with their slave masters to claim the land and despsperat dispossess the indigs population, andnd collaborate wh police forces, in keeping those o subordinated groups inin line. i think there is still a struggle between these two lines, a class struggle on one hand and class collaboration on the other. amy: we want to thank you so much for being with us, gerald horne, professor of history and african american studies at the university of houston. author of a number of books, one .ust publilished,

up next, we e go to tulsa, oklahoma, and speak with the sister of a man killed by police several years ago. they arere the great-grandchilin of a survivor ofof the 1921 race massssacre in tosa. -- in tulsa. stay with us. ♪ [musisic break]

amy: "no more auction block," also called "many thousands gone," performed by martha redbone. the spirititual is often sung at juneteenth celebrations. this is democracy now. i am amy goodman. tulsa, okoklahoma. this is the first of president trump's rallies since the pandemic. they are requiring to sign a waiver if they get the virus, but they are not required to get -- to wear masks. tomp rescheduled the rally saturday after facing backlash for saying it would happen on juneteenth -- a celebration of african americans' liberation from slavery -- amid a nationwide uprising against racism and police brutality. but tulsa is also the site of

one of the deadliest massacres in u.s. history. in 1921, 99 yearars ago, this month, a white mob attacked a black neighborhood in tulsa, killing as many as 300 african americans. over two days, white mobs set fire to homes, businesses, and churches in greenwood, a thriviving african-american business district known at the time as "black wall street." to talk about this history and the pervasive racism that remains, we go to tulsa where we're joined by damario solomon-simmons, a civil rights and sports lawyer, who represents the last known survivor of the greenwood massacre living in tulsa. he is also the attorney for the family of terence crutcher, a blblack man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in tulsa in 2016. terence crutcher was unarmed with his hands in the air when he was killed. he had pulled over on the side of the road because his car broke down. the officer, betty shelby, was later acquitted.

terence crutcher's sister, dr. tiffany crutcher, also joins us from tulsa. she will introduce the rev. al sharpton tododay at the 2020 juneteenth celebraration, "i too am ameririca." your family bringing together all of the harbobors from 19292o ththe loss of your twin brothehn 2016 at the hands of a tulsa police officer. dr. crutcher? dr. crutcher: yes, can you hear me? amy:amy: i think we may have lost dr. crutcher for a minute, but we will go to damario solomon-simmons. you are intimately connected to the crutcher family. you represented terence death bys family, his

police. and you also represent the last living survivor of the tulsa race massacre. let's begin there. we are going to see if we can hear youou. damario? oh, yes, we can hear you, go ahead. go ahead, damario. damario: can you hear me? amy: we can. damario: good deal. yes, i i represesent the last kn living survivor who lives in tulsa, and she is 105 years old care she hasas been waiting for justice foror 99 years, and weee excited aboutut the new opportrtunity that has s come at because off covid-19 anand the unfofortunate, tragic c death of george floyd that has really made this enentire country if nt

ththis world, to look at discriminationon and try to find ways to eliminate this long-standing injustice in tulsa that has been festering, what we continue -- what we call a continued massacre. e explain who the l last survivor of this race massacre is and how you came to represent her. damario: yes, she is a wonderful woman. she was alive when this happenened. she was at her grandmother's home, and she hahas vivid memors of running out of the house. s sheunately, she said still hahas memories of the bods stackeked up against each other. her grandmotother's home was destroyeyed.

those who werere able to get out of the city and able to go to the e country and basically hihe out therere for a long period of titime. she talks about t the fact that she feels like the city of tulsa and othersrs who were responsibe hahad a duty to try to help her and her family anand others like her get back on her feet, as she wowould say. and d she said a at least they d have giviven us some type of a pension,n, that is the t terminy she uses shehe says,s, you knoni am 105 years old.. i don't need this necessarily, it would be nice, but for my family, because we have nevever been able to heal. we have nevever been able to get back on our feet. that is what is important about understanding what happened here in tulsa. it was a complete stripping of generational wealth and opportunities for people, and it was never fixed. it just t continued d to get woe and worse and wororse. amy: and your reaction to president trump coming to tulsa on this 99th a anniversary, originally set for juneteenth,h,

totoday? that isisy reaction to presidenent trump is following e long line of powerful whites here in tulsa, utilizing the history ofof black wall street o leverage that t for his own benefit. so i am not surprised that president trump would do that, because that i is what the whihe power strtructure h here in tuls doing right toto this day. they are leveveraging the massacacre, that t they createdo at t they can ututilize it as a cover fofor thee gentrificatatin that is cocoming on n inside of greenwood. individualsat these or these entities like the city of tulsa, they are happy about talking about makiking greenwooa tourist attraction and talkingng aboutt the history, bubut they o not want to o talk about or provide rereparations.s. that is a badgdge of slavery. if you are someone who has beenn injured and you know who interview, but you do not have the e opportunity to have

compmpensation for that injury, you are treated like an enslaved person who does not hahave righ. i am n not surprised p president trump is doing what he is doing, because he has been he does not respect like lives. he does not respect anyone. he only wawants to help himselef get reelected.d. amamy: dr. tiffany crutcher, if you could wait in here, i would like to start with the rally, and if you could talk about what this means. . be000 people are expected to in the arena, and while trump lethality of the virus, right, ththey are going o require people who come into have waiversrs signed, they wo't hold the campaign responsible, liable, they will not require masks. what does this mean, dr. crutcher, for the workers? there must be hundreds of workers who have to be there, on thisis day,, tomorrow, where ths arena has t t been open for months because of the coronavirus. who are the workers? dr. crutcher: well, thank you so

much. i am definitely outraged, because those workers are the most vulnerable among us. african-americans, the elderly population, those are the citizens that have to work in that arena. also, they need their jobs. you know, covid-19 has definitely amplified a lot of the issues that we as african americans face in this country, as a result of systemic racism, but for the president of the united states to host the largest rally since the pandemic shows just who he is. i mean, we should not be surprised. he is only concerned about himself, and to put the health and the lives of the american citizens at risk for his own,, you know, benefefit and ego is just atrocious. amy: dr. tiffany crutcher, your famimily's life spans thee trajectory from the race massacre..

explain your great-grandmother survived that massacre in 1921, ththe 2016 when your twin, your twin brother, terence crutcher, was killed by police. dr. crutcher: absolutely. there are sow, many stark parallels, and it is just unbelievable that my family, we have had to endure racial violence down through the generations, and nothing has changed. my great-grandmother, rebecca brown crutcher, as the mario stated, had to flee for her life. they owned a barbecue e pit down and greenwood. they were living their best life, and that it was all stripped away from them, and she had to run off to the country and was fearful, and never, ever talked about it because of the fear mongering. they said if they said anything, it would happen again. so i did not learn about this until i went off to college, and i heard about some other classmates from all around the

country. and i went to school on greenwood, and no one said anything. we did not even learn about it in oklahoma history, and that is devastating, because i did not get the opportunity to ask my great-grandmother questions. i want to know how she felt, you know, and what happened, but she did return and eventually moved to kansas city, missouri. and i always say that this sam anti-black, white supremacist culture that burned down my grandmother's community is the same culture that killed my twin brother almost 100 years later, so nothing h has changeded at a. amy: explain what happened with your brother, terence. i hate to ask you to do this, but to save at least, at this time, when we are deaealing with one police killing after another, from minneapolis t to atlanta and so many other places, what you can share with us. dr. crutcher: well, i will just say this.

on friday, said number 16, 2016, leaving school. he started his first day of community college, and according to some of his professors, about 15 minutes later, after he left, hehe was shot, and he was dead,y a white police officer by the name of betty shshelby. afafr watchingng the video, , ww that terrence's hands were in the air, he was unarmed, he was notbelligerent, he was attacking the officer whatsoever, yet he ended up dead. police officers fled to the scene could he was tased simultaneously. police officers and those helicopters said he look like "a bad dude," and i do not know what a "bad dude" looks like all the way up in the air, all i know is they saw the color of his skin, and they did not render any aid. he lay on the ground like roadkill, and the officers trampled over him and went to

check that officer betty jo shelby was ok. and i just can't get over that. i have a visual of terrence lying on the e ground with blood everywhehere. every y time i lay down n and go bed, those samame parallels, 19 21, my great-grandmother never received reparations, and to this day, my family, the city of tulsa, they have yet to atone for what they did to my brother and won't even acknowledge that they violated his rights, and so the culture just has not changed, and so on today -- amy: and t the police ofofficers charged but t acquitte wewe just have 10 seconds. yoyou are introducing al l sharn atat the jununeteenth celebratin today in tululsa? absbsolutely. i will b be introducing the rev. alal sharpton to bring somome ey and helplp us chchannel ththe fe are dealaling with and that ang, and hopefully we will actually start that process of

liberation, because the reality, 2020, we are still not free. we are fighting just for the right to live as black americans in this country. amy: dr. tiffany crutcher, we want to thank you so much, and n

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