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.
Don’t forget the dry WHITE (racist) toast (now brown, so no longer racist)!
The world is getting more stupid and insane by the day.
It was ratified on December 6, but it appears it wasn’t implemented for a few weeks.
Dont worry, it’s also Father’s Day. Most of us know that guy is.
I live in Galveston, Texas and we have known about Juneteenth as long as I can remember. Bye.
Well, to be fair, I've seen that all black women are Queens so maybe it's just a caste thing, LOL.
It was pretty much exclusively a Texas thing until George Floyd happened and the media was casting about for anything to use as an example of President Trump being a racist. “He never even mentioned this holiday we never heard of until it made the AP’s Today in History, the white devil.”
It’s been my studied opinion that many blacks suffer from a severe inferiority complex.
That would explain the rejection of normal behavior and image. From hair to clothes to names....many can’t stand anything related to white folks.
Also, next time you cross paths with a black female try to walk in front of her and see what happens.....they can’t stand it for some reason.......weird.
And there you have it, it’s always been about not wanting to assimilate. I suppose they want segregated schools.
And separate water fountains......................
Exactly! Where's the call for reparations of the descendants of the men who died to end slavery? They don't even get a mention.
I am surprised our local Gannet rag has this article about White South African Barbecues today.
‘South Africans are jolly’: A traditional South African braai unfolds on a Tennessee farm’
Will Elon Musk be there?......................
You didn’t answer what was raised in #123.
Rasmus answers it in #166.
It’s a “Woke” holiday foisted nationally for “Woke” reasons.
According to you, Elon Musk’s kids are below the poverty line!
Don’t be a history denier.
Juneteenth ... the summer version of Kwanzaa ...
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