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.
When the word ‘slavery’ disappears from the lexicon, WE WILL ALL BE SLAVES.................
Who’d want to?
Interesting.
The First lady and me were invited to a Juneteenth cook out.
I got a good tan, and the First lady is African American so I guess we qualify.
5.56mm
I’m darker than Melina Abdullah...................
Her..............
What if I bring my own watermelon?
Are Juneteenth cookouts similar to birthday parties and funerals when it comes to probability of getting shot?
And fried chicken.
Four fried chickens and a Coke.
Odds are even higher..........................
I guess we don’t want to cover the bit about it being a black man that got the courts to recognize the right for a human being to own another human being.
Nah.
In honor of Juneteenth, a history lesson:
How a black man became the first American slave owner
In 1621 a black man by the name of Anthony Johnson arrived from Africa to Virginia to be an indentured servant, not a slave. He was captured by Arab traders in his native Angola and sold as a slave.
By 1635 he had completed his service contract, and by the late 1640’s he had acquired 250 acres of land. As a land owner he started using indentured servants himself, acquiring five. In 1654 one of his servants, a black man by the name of John Casor was due for release from his service. Johnson decided to extend his service and Casor left to work for Robert Parker who was a free white man.
That year Johnson sued Parker in Northampton Court, and in 1655 the court ruled that Johnson could hold Cason indefinitely. The court gave sanction for blacks to hold slaves of their own race. This made Anthony Johnson the first American slave owner and John Cason the first slave in the American colonies. It was another 15 years before the colonial assembly granted free whites, blacks and Indians permission to own black slaves.
And don’t point out to them that their ancestors largely were the ones capturing each others ancestors to sell them off into slavery to the white men.
If you can trace your ancestry back to the age of slavery, odds are much higher your ancestor was captured and sold into slavery by another african than by europeans hunting them down and capturing them.
Slavery is wrong, but dishonesty around it is too..
How big a jackass can the education industry make?
Looks like we have a candidate for the runoffs.
They would better serve their own interests by actually inviting everyone. I mean if there is one thing all Americans love, it’s a cookout. Lure us in with some burgers and beer, and then they might be able to slip a lecture in before we split.
But they’re too dumb to realize they picked the wrong strategy.
What about desert - can I show up for the watermelon? 🤪
What makes this idiot think any of us would be caught dead at her stupid event!!!
In south Louisiana she could be white or black depending on what racial she chose. Believe there have been a number of white boys who have gotten a real jolt when their fiance introduced them to the family.
There were about 4 million black people in the US in 1860, about 10% of which were already free. By June 19, 1865, most of the slaves had learned of the end of the war and that they were no longer required to work for their former owners. Word got to Texas late but maybe a few hundred black people in Galveston learned about the end of the war on June 19, 1865, so to make that the grand celebration of freedom seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill.
Once Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865, Southern whites appear to have recognized that the game was up (Jefferson Davis excepted). I read of a lawsuit once concerning someone in Mississippi who had learned of Lee's surrender before anyone else in that locality and went to spend his Confederate money right away. He was found guilty of fraud--the storekeeper would not have accepted the money if he had known about Lee's surrender.
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.
Does this mean they want segregation back?
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