Just a note as Juneteenth draws to a close. Juneteenth was brought about by young white men from places like Indiana, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island...... It might have been proper if a representative of The Congressional Black Caucus had gone to Arlington and quietly laid a wreath on the grave of a representative Union soldier as a recognition of the sacrifice of all those who wore the Blue and of all those families who faced the tragedy of a dinner table with a Vacant Chair.
Stacey Abrams came to mind when someone says profound weight. Am I the only one?
They’ll do anything they can to keep one American pitted
against another.
That’s all this is about.
I have never found slavery to be anything other than
repulsive even as a child, but hey, I’m White. GUILTY!
Even in the day, the percentage of Americans who owned
slaves was very small. Some have put it as low as 1.4%.
That may be true, or the figure may be a bit higher. None
the less, the percentage of Whites that didn’t own African
slaves exceeded 90%, and perhaps even over 96%.
Of those trying to drive up the percentage of owners,
they admit records were not as robust as they would like.
They still use every trick in the book to bump them up.
An individual owned slaves or he didn’t. You might
reason his wife owned them since she was his spouse, but
children and other family members?
Well, that didn’t bump up the percentages very high, so
the schemers came up with three categories.
There are the owners, the family, and the farm. If you
can’t get the numbers you need just taking direct owners
into consideration, include each member of the family.
If that doesn’t get you the numbers you want, then
expand the owner and family to include anyone on the farm.
On farms you could have a number of children, extended
family, and hired hands living on your farm. You might
have a friend or two that was allowed to bunk there. Each
of these people was considered to be a slave owner in
addition to the owner and his wife. This might bump
up the number of slave owners by a factor of ten or more.
Instead of one (or two owners in the case of a spouse),
each of these other people would be considered to be a
slave owner. In this manner those who wish to, drive up
the numbers toward 20%. That isn’t accurate, but it
feeds on certain people’s desires to “think” things were
as bad as could possibly be.
Another tactic they use is to only accept population
figures from the South. All those other Whites that
didn’t own slaves aren’t allowed according to them.
If the actually number of slave owners was 3-5%, that would
leave 95 to 97% Whites not slave owners. That just
wouldn’t do.
Imagine thinking there is a need for a day to be a holiday
for the ending of slavery, over 3-5% (or less) of the
populace owning them in the day.
Naturally, every White in America is considered guilty of
approving of slavery in the 1860s. They are all lumped in
with every White that has lived since. We’re all part of
that terrible race of people who owned others.
Who is reasoning along these lines? Why it’s the folks
whose ancestors actually did make up part of that 3-5% in
the 1860s who did own slaves.
Not mentioned ever, is the fact that 3,000 African
Americans in the day owned 20,000 African slaves.
Do you ever hear of their descendants being singled
out for, “special treatment?”
We’re talking 3-5%, when it may have only been as low
as 1.8 to 2.5%. I just don’t know what the actual figure
was, and from what I’ve read, I think it depends on who
is doing the calculating, just how accurate that figure
is anyway.
JuneTeenth is now a day when every White citizen will be
looked at with the thought, “How could you?” Well, we
never did. 95% or more of our ancestors never did.
We lost over 300,000 White men in the Civil War which
wound up freeing the slaves.
This did not remove the pain, unfairness, inhumanity to
the African slaves here. I wish that it had never taken
place. It did. It was rectified by the over 95% that
did not favor slavery. Free Blacks participated also.
At this time there shouldn’t be a holiday like this. There
should be quiet moments on a day to simply ask our fellow
friends and neighbors to simply get over it.
Let’s move on together, and quit allowing the DNC to put
us one against the other.
If we consider that around 96.5% of 1860 Americans did
not own slaves, and then every White after 1865 never
owned them, we’re talking about a very large segment of
Whites who never owned slaves themselves, and never
had family members who did in the day.
That 3.5% declines considerably through the years as new
children were born and others died off. In 1865 we had
roughly 30 million White Citizens. Today we have 204
million. That’s a 6.8 fold increase in live population.
That of course doesn’t address the tens if not hundreds
of millions of people who were born and died during the
period from 1865 to 2022. Just on the 6.8 fold increase
alone that 3.5% figure becomes 1.8% If we do spend the
time to figure out how many people were born and died
between 1865 and now, that figure goes down
precipitously. All this hoopla today is based on some
percentage of people who owned slaves at a percentage
of perhaps less than 1.0%. JuneTeenth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States
It’s is beyond absurd to trash all Whites for racism on
a yearly basis. JuneTeenth is supposed to be a
celebration of the end of slavery, but we all know
what it is going to feed into.
This is part of what CRT is all about. Don’t you feel
bad about yourself right now? WEll you should! /s
Enough already.
His speech writers actually thought that was a “Day of Infamy” or “Tear Down This Wall” caliber speech.
Idiots idiot, that’s what they do.
I am so glad Juneteenth falls in Pride Month!!!!!
Can celebrate those slaves in Texas finding out they were free.
Dems are proud of their racist heritage.
From: Retain Mike Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2022 11:45 AM Subject: Juneteenth End of Slavery
Celebrating Juneteenth as the end of slavery also fulfills the aspirations of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The founders could not abolish slavery but came closer than often believed. Slavery was retained, but delegates only agreed to suspend Congressional initiatives until 1808 and expected it to vanish as a matter of moral obligation.
The philosophical doctrines consulted for founding this country already placed master and slave on the same natural plane of existence and only postponed the free exercise of conscience. It was reasonably believed planters would no longer be satisfied with luxuries, indolence, and cruelties, but aspire to the profit, energy, and incentives found in Northern methods of enterprise.
In reading James Madison’s notes, you find no defense of slavery, but two firm denunciations during debates that abhorred the institution. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania said, “It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of heaven on states where it prevailed. Compare Middle States where a rich and noble civilization marks prosperity and happiness with….great regions of slaves presenting a desert increasing in proportion to these retched beings”. George Mason of Virginia said, “This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants…. Slavery discourages arts and manufactures….Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant….They bring the judgement of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this”.
As an economically dying institution when the Constitution was approved, it seemed a not intractable problem to settle.
The weight is in his diaper!
The weight is in his diaper!
I think all of these pandering days are a farce. We should have one day to celebrate all nationalities. Do away with mlk day etc.
“Juneteenth” is really Texas subjugation day!!!!
And biden went WAY too far in making it a Federal holiday!! He called it “Juneteenth National Independence Day”:
In NO WAY is “Juneteenth” any kind of “Independence day”!!!! July 4th is Independence Day!!!! PERIOD!!!! End of discussion!!!!
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.