Posted on 06/20/2021 8:44:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Contempt for this country has been spreading from academia, where it first gained a foothold during the Vietnam War, to infect the commanding heights of our institutions. The cities and towns that hist the most prestigious colleges and universities almost without exception are bastions of the left. Berkeley, California, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Cambridge, Mass, and not least Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University.
Evanston, Illinois made headlines recently by becoming the first city in the country to pay “reparations” to Black residents who lived there between 1919 and 1967, or who were descended from someone who did, and who “had been a victim of discrimination in housing because of policies or practices in the city in that time.” Now, it is dissing the founding of the country:
My home town of Evanston, Illinois is having a Juneteenth Parade and a Gay Pride Parade, but is cancelling the 4th of July Parade & Fireworks. pic.twitter.com/KFhJ335LEl — Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 19, 2021
The Post Millennial reports:
The municipal government of Evanston had a grand announcement for its Juneteenth parade on Saturday. While the theatrical performance will be virtual, the parade will proceed in-person as scheduled.
Residents are also invited in-person to attend post-parade celebrations outdoors for "an afternoon of art, music, food and community."
Homosexuals are to be honored as well:
Another major parade is scheduled in Evanston on June 26 to close out Pride Month. Once again, in-person events will continue after the parade, sponsored by the government, including a night-time "candle lighting ceremony and memorial."
But the founding of our country, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” will not be honored with a parade:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We lived in Evanston when it was a wonderful place to live. live. On Sheridan Road. Great schools and patriotic people. I thought it was a mistake to leave, but now I don’t. What a bunch of jerks.
So the Coup-Flu cooties take a break for “Juneteenth” but come roaring back for Independence Day.
Science my A55.
Time to form “Take Back the Fourth” committees all across America. (TBF Committee)
The same for “Columbus Day”, etc.
It’s the context in which Juneteenth has gained this recognition now, rather than any question of its own merits as a holiday, which is the problem. Leftist scrapping of 4th of July celebrations demonstrates this.
The same for “Columbus Day”, etc.
Yes. Especially some national organization at the top. For the holidays, flag and national anthem. If one does not exist already, form it. I will be glad to fund it.
A great video documentary about Cultural Marxism and the Frankfort School which is now in its home stretch of its Long March to destroy our culture and country and rebuild it from the ground up in its own image.
https://youtu.be/Dod6UvxyrOM?t=89
A great video documentary about Cultural Marxism and the Frankfort School which is now in its home stretch of its Long March to destroy our culture and country and rebuild it from the ground up in its own image.
https://youtu.be/Dod6UvxyrOM?t=89
Double post. Sorry bout that! The agony of “Old Timers Disease”
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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