Candace Owens Says Juneteenth Gives Black People 'Perpetual Victim Mentality'

Newsweak ^ | 6/18/21 | Ewan Palmer

[Libloather]

Conservative political pundit Candace Owens said she won't be celebrating the new federal holiday of Juneteenth, suggesting that the move to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. is just the Democrats trying to "repackage segregation."

In a series of tweets posted after President Joe Biden signed the bill officially making June 19 a national holiday, Owens said she will only be celebrating Independence Day on July 4 instead of the date on which the last slaves were told they were free in 1865.

Owens also suggested the holiday will train Black people to see themselves as "being separate from America" and that the move to recognize the June 19 holiday only came about because the Left started "making up random celebrations" after Donald Trump got permanently banned from Twitter.

"Juneteenth is soooo lame. Democrats really need to stop trying to repackage segregation. I'll be celebrating July 4th and July 4th only. I'm American," Owens tweeted.

"It took all of 2 years for Democrats to train black Americans to worship criminals like George Floyd, beg for violence on the streets via 'defund the police' and to celebrate segregation in the form of 'black Independence Day'. I just cannot comprehend the rampant stupidity," Owens added.

**SNIP**

America doesn't discriminate against people based on skin. Black Americans are just focused on meaninglessness like 'Juneteenth.'

"Twitter is literally so boring without Trump. It's just demented leftists making up random celebrations and trends like, HAPPY TRANSGENDER GYMNAST AWARENESS MONTH!"

[Texas resident]

Juneteenth has been around since 1865. It has been celebrated ever since in Galveston and the surrounding areas. The race pandering dimrats rushed this through for a reason. I think that reason is to divide the races by giving the black race their own separate independence day.

I thought that separate but equal was a bad thing.

[proud American in Canada]

That must have been beautiful. I visited the Black Forest and thought it was lovely.

I went to a tavern and spoke with Germans. This was when Reagan was president.

They were all petrified that RR was about to start a nuclear war.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!!!

;)

Do you live in the Chicago area? You can answer privately if you want. I grew up in Des Plaines, a stone’s throw from O’Hare.

[Night Hides Not]

They were all petrified that RR was about to start a nuclear war.

I had the same experience. My German neighbors were pleading with me to vote for Carter. Fortunately, I was nearing the end of my fourth year in country, and I spoke the language well.

From September until the election, at the neigborhood gasthaus, I'd explain my rationale for my support of RR: it boiled down to how the world is a safer place when America is strong.

I also spoke of his track record as Governor of California for 8 years, and his prolific writings over the past 20 years. I knew what we would be getting from Reagan as President.

Best part, for me, of all those discussions, was that I did it all in German.

The battle was won on Inauguration Day, when the Iranians released the hostages after 444 days of captivity. On my next visit to the gasthaus, and for the remaining 5 months of my tour, I was invited to sit at the stammtisch, the table reserved for family and close friends of the family. I cherish that honor to this day.