Thanks to Joe Biden, a unanimous U.S. Senate, and 415-14 vote in the House, we have a new federal holiday: Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates the day that the Union forces arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that the town’s slaves were free pursuant to the Emancipation Proclamation. Various groups on the Right are urging Americans to embrace the new holiday. For example: Kay C. James at the Heritage Foundation, Zuri Davis at Reason, and Dan McLaughlin at National Review. What could be wrong with celebrating freedom for those who were in bondage? Absolutely nothing. But celebrating the freedom of individuals to chart their own course and to enjoy equal rights under a color-blind Constitution is alien to the new holiday. Juneteenth became a holiday to focus Americans on so-called “systematic racism” and to use past injustices to encourage a progressive agenda. James, Davis, and McLaughlin are merely useful idiots for Leftists. They ignore the real purposes behind the holiday to our detriment.
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It's a shame our ancestors didn't have illegal immigrants coming across the Southern border back then that they could hire to pick the cotton. We'd all be so much better off.
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DeleteBy the 1830s they had the means & opportunity to ship every kidnapped person back to Africa; instead they chose to develop a theology. ----children suffer for the sins of ancestors.
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At this point "balkanization" is the only hope for white people ---if there were any who wants to and deserves to survive
Evidently. :(
DeleteJuneteenth - all I saw was a public display of savagery. Instead
ReplyDeleteof Juneteenth, now is the time to re-implement Jim Crow Laws.
One of worst displays of savagery was the beasts attacking an ambulance on its way to assist a shooting victim. Dancing on
the ambulance and sexual exploits. Too vulgar to watch.
One of worst displays of savagery was the beasts attacking an ambulance on its way to assist a shooting victim.
DeleteDon't know what they were thinking, but it's probably because they don't.
Look at the black dysfunction who closed down the school meeting
ReplyDeleteand ordered the arrest of White people expressing their concerns,
the incompetent one also shot his daughter:
https://dailyarchives.org/index.php/stories/4149-black-police-major-ordering-arrest-of-white-parents-protesting-critical-race-theory-is-an-naacp-member-who-shot-his-own-daughter?utm_source=Daily+Archives&utm_campaign=486c204ba0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2_7_2020_21_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d5146944-486c204ba0-169275490
South Africa anyone?
DeleteThese people have been given more opportunities to become successful, contributing, productive members of society than any other race in the country and it hasn't worked. Let's quit it. The old saying "Give a man a fish and he will eat for one day but teach him to fish and you'll feed him for a life time." Let's quit giving out fish and see if they figure out a job and work are necessary for survival.
ReplyDeleteAfricans came to this country only because there was a process in Africa that arose out of tribal warfare in which the victor routinely sold the defeated into slavery. Middlemen then took over and shipped the defeated to various parts of the world.
ReplyDeleteNow we have a federal holiday that celebrates the fact that slaves in Houston did not know that the Civil War was ended until a month after hostilities ceased. The actual end of slavery, however, only came in November 1865 when the 13th Amendment was finally ratified.
So, now, we are stuck with a federal holiday with an illiterate, ignorant name that celebrates a date that was meaninful only to a few slaves, at best.
In a population where males serve mostly as sperm donors, and where kids are raised without male authority figures, role models, and, most importantly, breadwinners, the racial disparities in this country will remain unchanged 100 years from now, and no federal holiday is ever going to change that.
November 1865
Delete& when Grant's slave was set free.