Violence Erupts After Juneteenth Celebration (Milwaukee, WI)

JSOnline ^ | June 19, 2007 | Bob Purvis

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Today's ebonics lesson:

You should have said, "The brothers be rioting again?"

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Different phrase but...GMTA!

[pissant]

I guess I’m not fluent yet.

[quark]

Summertime version of Kwanzaa?...

[July 4th]

group of people who tore down a tent and used its poles to beat each other.

Well, the community leaders did tell them to leave their guns at home.

[bcsco]

Nahhh, it’s Wisconsin. Probably a Wauwatosan WELS Lutheran of swedish extraction.

Oh those WELS Swedes. I knew them well. But hardly like this. Too much Oof Dah from the Lutefisk? Now if it were WELS Germans like myself (at one time...and that's an old story) I'd say it was too much Edelweis mixed with undercooked kraut & brats. But then, that always tended to slow us down some.

I haven't heard so much commotion from my adopted state since Sven & Lars interviewed for a job at the foundry.

The interviewer asked how they could have worked together in the old country, since one said he'd been a diesel fitter and the other made women's pantie hose.

Sven said: "Vell, dat's easy. I made de pantie hose, then gave 'em to Lars who'd say 'ya, diesel fitter'".

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I have to stop this Evelyn Wood stuff. I read you to say that you weren’t “flatulent” yet.

Yeesh

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

That’s after they both got fired as tasters at the M&Ms factory.

They spent all their time trying to peel them.

[Jeff Chandler]

So a journalism major in college no longer has to pass grammar classes?

If they could pass a grammar class they would be psychology or sociology majors. On the other hand, if journalism proves too daunting, they change their majors to education.

[BurbankKarl]

Video of the Juneteenth Mob Scene

[Rose in RoseBear]

Juneteenth is celebrated by people all over the world ... even, apparently, in Wisconsin.

As the last place where the Emancipation Proclamation was read, it deserves to be noted.

[Rose in RoseBear]

There was a Juneteenth parade of some note in Austin on Juneteenth --- here's video.

There was also a Juneteenth parade down Congress Avenue on Friday.

[TexasCajun]

Video

[TexasCajun]

They all have on white 'colors'?

Whatsup wit dat?

[isom35]

juneteenth is a quagmire!

[SoCalRight]

What caused them to attack?

I emailed the news director of a TV station with a story about it linked from DRUDGE asking the same question. He wrote back that the “driver apparently honked his horn or told them not to touch his car, but we’ll probably never know...”

Huh. These “teens” today!

[YHAOS]

"This the third story today about violence at a Juneteenth ‘celebration’."

Chickens; coming home to roost.

[muggs]

Hispanic.

[toddlintown]

Let me guess who these “people” are.

[Kozak]

After the festival winded down around 6 p.m. a large group

The writer must be another product of the Milwaukee Public Schools....