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.
So, with BATFE (ATF) now above ALL reproach, will they schedule their next “Good Old Boys Roundup”* for 6/19?
*One of the historic true events leading up to the slaughter at Waco, Tx.
Some of the ATF goons thought it was funny to take some black agents to a truly racist event that posted “Ni**er Hunting Licenses for sale” at the front gate.
The black agents were not amused.
One of the many ATF scandals the Branch Davidian fiasco was meant to distract from.
Do not forget the black slave owners, do their descendants pay or collect?
25% of white Southern families owned slaves.
I ain’t going to no cookout. I be too busy waiting for da Mothership.
Fine, we will have our own cookout. How many of y’all are going to have peaceful BBQs with no gang murders?
Grocery chain in my area has ribs and chicken on sale. Coincidence?
“Negro de Mayo”
I’ll have mine sliced thin and please hold the mayo.
My niece’s husband is black. At the family reunion last Saturday he was expounding on how much he hates this racist crap. Apparently, his family is ultra obsessed with “hate whitey” and is about all they talk about. He’s so fed up he has pretty much checked out when it comes to family gatherings.
Our extended family has embraced him from Day One. His family emotionally abuses my niece when she’s with them. It’s ugly.
“25% of Southern”
In the 1850 census, of the 6,184,477 in the slave States, only 347,525 were listed as owners.
In the 1860 Census, which is on the eve of the Civil War, there were 393,975 slave owners in the United States out of a total population of 31,183,582, or 1.26 percent of the population.
What???
Not watermelon???....................
Most put out huge cold cases with crab legs.
And black slave owners then, too.
😉🥳
No worries! I’m celebrating Random Federal Holiday with a whites only cookout.
“Not even descendants of Union soldiers who died for their freedom?”
Not even descendants of Christian Americans who were strict abolitionists?
Black democrats and white liberal ‘elites’ deserve each other... jerks, bullies and thugs.
Is their a single politician running that wants to remove Juneteenth as a holiday? I’d vote for them
Don’t come, just send a check or money order.
I plan to stay in my house and avoid black people on June 19th. I don’t want to get beaten if I happen to venture outside.
Really. Not hyperbole in my neck of the woods.
And not just those who died, but also those such as my second great-grandfather, who enlisted with the 30th Illinois at the beginning of the war, served until the end, and saw plenty of action in between.
On their behalf, I say, “You’re welcome, Juneteenthers.”
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