Over the past six months this political campaign has had the same purpose as my other initiatives — make Louisville better.
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A Juneteenth Celebration
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“This year, we wanted to dive deeper into what Juneteenth meant,” Arthur, who is also a former employee of Louisville Public Media, said. “And not only the celebration of the day itself, but what was happening before Juneteenth, what happened during Juneteenth and what happened after Juneteenth… a deep dive into the history of slavery and the abolishment of it and how there’s really a throughline of Neo-slavery that still exists today that we are still impacted by.”
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"I often hear people say that Abraham Lincoln freed us when slavery was abolished, but in reality, he fired us," Arthur said. "We were no longer valuable assets and worth the trouble of keeping the plantations in the South."
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“We don't need our city taking down symbols of white supremacy,” Jecorey Arthur, an activist who the local paper reported is also running for a seat on the local city council, tweeted earlier this week. “We need our city taking down systems of white supremacy. While we're removing this let's remove no-knock warrants, cash bail, and the increase to LMPD weapons in the upcoming budget.”
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“We don’t need to just take down symbols of white supremacy.”
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We recently asked local activist, musician, award-winning teacher, father and Democratic candidate for Louisville Metro Council District 4, Jecorey Arthur, to comment on the recent protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Arthur also shared ways our community can support the movement.
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Jecorey Arthur (@jecoreyarthur), a Louisville Metro Council District 4 candidate, tweeted, “We are done with this system. We are resetting it. We are the ones. Who’s ready? #ADOS #BlackLivesMatter.”
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I’m committed to making positive changes every day and bringing honest conversations about racism, white privilege and the micro-aggressions felt by Black people into our home. Beyond that, I want to move beyond lip service and into action. Supporting more Black political candidates (I’ve been especially excited about the work Jecorey Arthur is doing locally), Black-owned businesses and partnering/working with more Black partners in our work at Lemonade.
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"We don't need our city taking down symbols of white supremacy," Jecorey Arthur, a local activist, educator and musician, wrote in a tweet Monday. "We need our city taking down systems of white supremacy.”
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In Louisville, Kentucky, the issues highlighted in protests over the police killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, could boost the efforts of city council candidates running on similar platforms, including Jecorey Arthur, a 28-year-old musician, educator and activist who is running in the June 23 Democratic primary for an open seat on the Louisville Metro Council.
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Jecorey Arthur, a professor at Simmons College of Kentucky who lives in the same neighborhood as YaYa's BBQ and is running for city council there, used to frequent McAtee's stand, even though he is vegetarian.
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“I’m sorry for Breonna,” Jecorey Arthur, a local activist and educator, told the rallygoers, some of them wiping their tears. “You gotta say that one as loud as you can. She came from right here in this city. I’m sorry for Breonna! I’m sorry for Breonna!”
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“She might have been here today; she might have saved your life,” Jecorey Arthur, the rally’s emcee and a Metro Council District 4 candidate, told the crowd.
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Black Lives Matter organizer Chanelle Helm, poet Hannah Drake and Metro Council candidate Jecorey Arthur issued a video denouncing any unplanned protests.
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“We’ve tried the peaceful protest countless times," said Jecorey Arthur, a Metro Council candidate. "This isn’t the first time we’ve seen protests in this city or in this country. … We need to come to the realization, we can’t wait any longer. I don’t want my 2-year-old to turn around and protest 50, 60, 70 years from now. We need to make this the moment where we decide what type of city are we going to be?”
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