Posted on 06/19/2024 9:35:47 AM PDT by River Hawk
Today marks the third Juneteenth America has officially celebrated as a federal holiday. The country would be a whole lot better without it.
We already have a black holiday with Martin Luther King Day. We didn’t need another one, especially one that its proponents wanted to weaponize to browbeat America into giving reparations. Juneteenth enshrines the false idea that blacks are the protagonists of American history while whites are its villains.
When this was first made a holiday, I thought it might one day supplant Independence Day in importance. It was a year after George Floyd. America appeared well on the road to establishing Afrolatry as its state religion. DEI was sweeping through schools and businesses. Anti-white racism was being normalized beyond comprehension, with kids’ cartoons even pushing a hate whitey message. The Left was tearing down monuments left and right–even George Washington and Abraham Lincoln weren’t safe from iconoclasm. Our heritage was deemed too white and oppressive. It seemed like the nation was set to adopt a whole new history of itself, one free of the white man.
What better way to formalize this process than to make Juneteenth the new Independence Day? Instead of celebrating dead white men, America would celebrate blacks (who also somehow freed themselves) and dethrone whites from their central place in America history.
But the Left seems to run into a problem. It’s not that normal Americans are in the thrall of a full-on backlash against the meaning of Juneteenth. They just don’t care enough about it to be impacted by it.
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Monitor the news tomorrow....chances are there will be multiple shootings tonight related to this so called holiday......more than likely all occurring in blue cities of course.
Keep Juneteenth and get rid of martin luther false prophet day.
I disengage when fake composite words that can’t be decomposed into any logical meaning are used.
The White Union men should be honored.
No better way to promote unity than to jam holidays that are exclusive for the 13%of the population that is responsible for the majority of violent crime and other societal problems down the throats of the other 87% of citizens .
Yes, unfortunately.
I agree.
I'm not quite sure I'd be able to tell the difference from normal.
“I haven’t seen any evidence that violent crime spikes on either holiday”
That’s true, now that every Friday and Saturday Night are the big shoot-em-up days.
Very good historical recall.
It’s a complete waste of productivity just like the lazy slobs it was invented for
YEah, it’s funny.
I called my insurance company today, spent 3 minutes getting past the AI stupidity to talk to a human, finally was put through. “Our offices are closed for the holiday” it said, “please call back during normal business hours”.
I had no idea.
Given these:
Black History Month (Feb)
Women’s History Month (March)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)
Pride Month (June)
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept)
LGBT History Month (Oct)
Native American Heritage Month (Nov)
Why isn’t there a White History Month or a Men’s History Month? Surely whites and men have contributed to this country’s development as much, or more, than some of the groups above.
Happy birthday. Screw the other one.
It is neither “important” nor a “holiday”.
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