I got your reparation right here....
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.
Not even descendants of Union soldiers who died for their freedom?
Fine.
We’ll have our own cookout....on Juneteenth AND on July 4th.
And, this racist Melina Abdullah gal is NOT invited!
Guess they can miss Independence Day Cookouts. Turnabout and all.
No kidding.
Talk about ignoring history.
But then they won’t get the chance to spit in white peoples’ food!................
Don’t worry. I wasn’t going to ask.
No Honkeys allowed.......................
The race-obsessed are almost universally Democrats. It’s a sickness of the soul.
Who the hell would want to??
“1. Define racism”
Well first of all in the minds of many blacks, blacks cannot be guilty of racism.
Second, what race DON’T black people have a grievance with?
I was planning on “celebrating” Juneteenth by going to my mailbox a couple of times on Junetwentieth and wondering why I didn’t even get my usual quota of junk mail.
The original Lincoln Republican Party understood how to deal with racists who wanted to enslave blacks.
Prove me wrong.
What if I bring some 40s?
I got your reparation right here....
Lol! Somebody should have told the professor. “That’s fine. We’ll be having a “Whites Only” cookout across town.” and watch the professors head explode.
My answers to this Neanderthal, “No worries! Not even remotely interested in experiencing your hospitality.”
Slave owners were less than a couple of percent of the white population.
Union casualties were greater than the casualties in all USA wars put together until recently. Your country paid its slave debt in blood.
The only country — in the history of the world — to do so.
And the South was severely punished. Anything of value was burned down or looted.
The USA has nothing to apologize for.
She’s very fortWhite folks don’t stick together like blacks.....if that was the case she’d more than likely be finding her ass in another country....probly afreeka.
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