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.
I would want an invitation to anything from an ignorant, racist POS like Melina. I don’t associate with trash like that.
I agree.
😂
Negro de Mayo. Another useless drinking holiday.
Recently, I was severely mistreated by a white supervisor. What can I do to him? Someone give me some direction here.
Oh darn. I’ve so been looking forward to the Juneteenth bbq. Guess I’ll clean the toilets if I can’t go to the party.
Better yell it loud, cause Arlington Cemetery is a long ways away.
Another reason the commies really try hard to not teach actual history in public schools.
Actually five: Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
Google doesn’t explain juneteenth? After the civil war a yankee general came to Galveston Texas and told the slaves that they had been freed. This happened on June 19, 1865. Word of the emancipation proclamation never reached Galveston.
“Not even descendants of Union soldiers who died for their freedom?”
Not even descendants of Christian Americans who were strict abolitionists?
How ‘bout we crash that cookout and cook her g*ddamned goose?
If invited, which is remote, I’d say I was allergic to spit on my hamburger.......................
I would not dream of asking to go to a racist cookout.The blacks certainly have squandered their freedom .
And there were free blacks in 1865, also. Even in parts of the South.
Not even ... the fundamental truth about racists like this individual is that they are ignorant, arrogant, unintelligent, and ungrateful. Life has been handed them on a silver platter, and they’re bitchin’ because the platter wasn’t gold encrusted with diamonds.
Ok, I don’t care who you are, that right there is FUNNY! 🤣
Stupid white liberals.
So, in hindsight, I actually the person’s point. I wouldn’t want them around, either.
My house is directly across the street from a large park with pavilions and BBQ grills, and BASKETBALL COURTS...............................
Got to post that sign out front...
Coloreds Only
Don’t fall for this satanic stuff. Decent people are decent people, following Christ.
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