Posted on 06/16/2022 8:26:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
California State University Los Angeles professor of pan-African studies Melina Abdullah issued a tweet telling white individuals not to request to attend a Juneteenth cookout.
“Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout… #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks. It should be #Reparations day for white folks,” Abdullah tweeted on Monday.
Last year, President Joe Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth, which falls on June 19, a federal holiday.
Abdullah’s tweet sparked pushback on social media, with some decrying it as “racist.”
In response to someone who described her comments as “extremely racist,” Abdullah replied, “1. Define racism. 2. Why do you think that?”
Someone else pressed Abdullah about how that standard would apply to people who are “part-black and part-white? Do they come to the cookout or pay reparations or both?”
“Kinda funny…and not. Short answer: Those who would have been enslaved in 1865 get to come to the cookout,” Abdullah responded.
Someone else asked Abdullah, “Do you seriously exclude your white father on account of his skin color? Is that progress?”
Abdullah replied by asking, “Do you know why we celebrate Juneteenth?”
“I guess July 4th is for the rest of us. Don’t come to the cookout,” someone else wrote.
“You can keep it,” Abdullah replied.
In her Twitter biography, Abdullah describes herself as a “#BlackLivesMatter organizer.”
Tour? has contended that Juneteenth should be marked by everyone.
“Juneteenth isn’t just for Black people. If you believe slavery was wrong then you should celebrate the end of slavery,” Tour? tweeted on Wednesday.
“Here’s why white people should be part of Juneteenth celebrations–because white people should be acknowledging that slavery happened. Many of them would love to not do that. It’s valuable for us to have them acknowledge it and see it as something that still impacts us today,” he wrote. “Slavery isn’t Black history. It’s American history. If we restrict it to Black history and restrict Juneteenth to Black people then we allow white people to escape having to think about it,” he declared.
I’ll be working don’t worry
OK, then I'll bring some potato salad.
“Do not forget the black slave owners, do their descendants pay or collect?”
Since they are seeking reparations from people that had nothing to do with their ancestors enslavement, I suppose I am entitled to reparations from Africans.
Egyptians were Africans, last I checked.
There were approximately 319,599 free blacks in the United States in 1830. Approximately 13.7 per cent of the total black population was free. A significant number of these free blacks were the owners of slaves. The census of 1830 lists 3,775 free Negroes who owned a total of 12,760 slaves.
The percentage of blacks in the USA that owned slaves: 1.18%
The percentage of whites in the USA that owned slaves: 1.26%
There’s a lot to be said of a poisoned soul with hatred.
Ok ...then do not show up for the July 4th celebrations unless you look like the founding fathers did on July 4, 1776.
I guess the logical conclusion to this narrative is that integration was a mistake and that segregation is inevitable.
I’m OK with that.
Misleading. 25% of whites lived in a household that owned slaves. You’re counting just the head of household.
***Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks.***
Bunkum. Slavery in the North did not end till the 13 Amendment was ratified in Dec 1865.
Not interested in chitlins, chicken feet, pigs feet and ham hocks anyway:-)
“Kinda funny…and not. Short answer: Those who would have been enslaved in 1865 get to come to the cookout,” Abdullah responded.
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Going to be a sparsely attended cookout.
Another date of more importance than what happened in Texas on June 19 was the Emancipation Proclamation signed on January 1, 1863. I can think of other civil rights milestones^ more important than June 19.
* Yes, I know some were frauds.
Several months ago a poster on another board asked what would be the most appropriator things to cook for the holiday. I replied that given the holiday’s origin it should be Tex-Mex.
You stay away, I stay away.
Solved. Done.
Only woke losers would want to go. As for the sane ones, who would want to jeopardize their life by going to an event where a bunch of gangbangers will get wasted and start shooting their illegally owned firearms sideways.
Check back after the 19th and see how many ghetto shootings there will be on that cursed day.
It’s always the light-skinned ones.
LOL
Juneteenth celebrates when Republicans freed slaves from their Democrat owners .
Nope.
If you want to quibble, just limit the percentage to southern states to get the usual liberal line.
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