It happens to coincide with father's Day this year...........
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.
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You assume that I want to go. Nope, I’m gettin’ Szechuan chicken and gyoza.
CC
There should not be a juneteenff.
June Nineteenth: The day when a bunch of negro slaves were told that Whitemen had fought, bled, and died to free the negro slaves.
Some descendants of those freedmen are a horrible bunch of ungrateful louts.
It happens to coincide with father's Day this year...........
I never could figure that out but these days, to maggots like Abdullah, he/she/it is totally irrelevant.
Who needs to eat fried chicken ‘n’ watermelon during a hail of drive-by gangbanger bullets anyway?
They really are that full of themselves.
Well…
Then don’t ask to come to a Father’s Day cookout
Juneteenth is a Texas holiday and Melina Abdullah is a racist.
I’ve never invited myself to anyone’s cookout or whatever kind of social gathering. The host does the inviting. Manners, people. Really.
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The Evil White Folks should stop giving money to this University
News about emancipation did not get to Texas until June 19th.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
“Those who would have been enslaved in 1865 get to come to the cookout,” Abdullah responded.”
Did you ever realize that there were white slaves in 1865 America, you moron?
And Chinese slaves.
And Indian slaves.
Some Professor you are.
I’ll stay away, unless they’re doing ribs.
I used to drive through a black neighborhood in Atlanta going to the post office. On Fri & Sat there would be guys out in the yards with bbq rigs selling ribs. The street was wide with onstreet parking so you could pull over out of the traffic and they’d wrap the ribs in foil. Ribs were done low and slow, not scorched over high heat.
So yeah, I’ll let the black folks celebrate Juneteenth by themselves, unless I smell ribs, then all bets are off.
Whatever, Melina. Don’t forget your Kevlar vest and helmet!
White people will be celebrating Father’s Day, so we’re busy, thanks.
Tell the idiot whites freed the slaves, after hundreds of thousands of whites died during a horrendous war.
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