Posted on 06/20/2022 10:07:31 AM PDT by justme4now
How many folks are having fried chicken and watermelon for dessert this long weekend? Is that even allowed these days??
After their freedom was handed to them on a silver platter, many blacks began to treat Whites terribly, and some still do, and it’s getting worse.
On Independence Day, July 4, we celebrate the day our ancestors (literal or philosophical) stood up on their own two feet, told the King of England to buzz off, and then fought a war to make it stick. We celebrate Men who earned their freedom at the risk of their own “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor”.
There’s a big difference between Independence Day and “Juneteenth”.
Must these people pollute everything.
Placing this "sculpture" directly across the street from Gallier Hall was not some random act. Can't wait to see what they put atop the pedestal at Lee Circle.
Sorry but what does this mean? How does this relate to blacks?
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It’s an “afro pick”, a type of comb used on the long curly hairstyle (called an “afro”) preferred by some of the Negro race.
The 2010 U.S. Census used the grouping “Black, African-American, or Negro”. Negro was used in an effort to include older African Americans who more closely associate with the term. In 2013, the census removed the term from its forms and questionnaires.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebelling states it took the 13th Amendment to free them in places like Delaware, Maryland, etc. That Amendment or the whole set of Reconstruction Amendments (13th - 15th Amendments) is what should be celebrated not some minor event in Texas. (minor to the rest of the country, maybe significant to Texas!) All this shows is ignorance, as well as English illiteracy!
Was Don Cornelius of Soul Train there for the ribbon cutting, with “Let’s Get it On” playing in the background?
This is simply not true. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in states that were in active rebellion against the Union. Slaves in Union states were enslaved until the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation itself, excluded many areas in the South.
Here is the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
“A young black man from the nearby big city visited the neighborhood and raped one of the local housewives.”
You make a valid point. Most are civilized, some are angry about the past and lingering prejudice against them, and some are like animals from the jungle.
Similar categorizations could be made of white people.
How totally demeaning this “sculpture” is ... just sayin
No doubt that every race has every kind of person, but the crime statistics tell a story—for those who want to listen.
That story matches my life experience.
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; a..."
“How totally demeaning this “sculpture” is”
Many blacks might agree, but those blacks have no voice now.
The part you’ve underlined says exactly that slaves are henceforth and forever free in those states where the people are in active rebellion against the United States. That explicitly excludes Union States. Read the proc again.
I couldn’t have come up with a more racist sculpture if I tried - and the “black power” fist representing people with such a high proportion on public assistance (it is New Orleans) is just bizarre...
What are the pandering pansies gonna do for an encore? Why not a statue of a bucket of KFC? Or replace that silver bean statue in Chicago with a gigantic basketball? Or how about a statue depicting a Chrysler 300 rolling on “twenty twos” with a thug sticking a Glock out of the window sideways. I swear the jokes write themselves.
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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