Goivernor Klink on Twitter over the weekend, commemorating Juneteenth:
“…work to dismantle unjust systems of oppression”
Like open-ended emergency powers that can be extended endlessly at the whim of a political party in power?
Like arbitrary authority that allows a governor to crush businesses at a whim, but spare the ones that donate to his campaign?
Those sorts of systems of oppression?
On it.
A day brought freedom & justice to enslaved black people in Texas?
Nonsense. It was white people that freed the black slaves.
This is an idiotic national holiday, brought to you buy our most senile president.
MLK Day, I can see that. Every American should celebrate the fact that all Americans have equal treatment under the law.
But Juneteenth? It is an illiteracy, and it pertains only to Texas, the day is meaningless elsewhere. It is as though they needed a day to memorialize the institution of slavery, while simultaneously reminding black people that they did not free themselves, white people did it for them.
So much stupidity on every level.
^^ Again, no one writes so much, and says so little. You’ve turned gibberish into an art form.
Imagine the sheer amount of psychic energy it must consume in order to keep one’s outrage constantly stoked to such high heat.
If King George had been a little smarter, he’d have issued a proclamation freeing all the slaves in the colonies in revolt (but not elsewhere). Liberals today would revere him more than Lincoln.
Lesko Brandon really wanted to be a great president like Abe Lincoln, he’d issue a proclamation freeing all the slaves in some foreign nation, maybe Sudan. Liberals would put his face on Mount Rushmore.
Did the troll squeak? It looks like the name, but all I see is squee squee squee squee squee.
The difficult nature of the holiday is revealed by Walz’s use of the passive voice in describing what the day means. It was a day that just happened to deliver “freedom and justice to “enslaved black people.” It just sort of happened . . . and I imagine many people would argue with the word “justice” since the slaves were never compensated for their years of labor.
What happened was the racists with influence in the federal government wanted a holiday that was clearly linked to slavery so that Americans could be reminded of it annually. But celebrating the signing of the emancipation proclamation wouldn’t do and neither would the passage of the 13th amendment. Those were things white people did. So they chose instead this illiterately named folk thing that no one outside of TX had heard of a decade ago.
Greg Abbot, governor of Texas, was smarter with his tweet honoring June 19th. He simply quoted the order itself:
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1538615987292995585?s=20&t=9tZJIbyw-zcxGfDLyQjnhQ
If I recall my history correctly, the Crown offered slaves their freedom, if their master was a rebel and said slave joined the British army. I’m doubting that many or any took the offer.
The number of white men who died for the Northern cause was approximately 600,000. More than the total reached in the US military in all wars until Vietnam. If we must have another holiday, let’s place it on November 19th, the date of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a far more dignified and meaningful celebration of the sacrifices made on behalf of recipients who seem to have lost their recognition of the true liberation of their ancestors.
A comment from Instapundit’s site which linked to this article, The Klan Was Never This Effective:
Wait, we fought a war, changed all our laws, transferred trillions, set aside jobs and opportunities, glorified thug ghetto culture as hip and authentic, gave them a history month, and now two holidays, and they are still failing?
And let’s not forget how hard it is for upper-class *black* women and the racism they encounter everyday!
– TV make-up stylists not tending to their hair
– Insufficient make-up supplies
– Inadequate style prep before shooting a TIME Mag cover
– Workplaces banning braids, twists & bantu knots
Black people did not make “Juneteenth” a national holiday. That was done by old, whiter-than-white, Joseph Robinette Biden, a Democrat, and the worst president in the history of the US.
It was done to intensify racial separatism in the United States. You are either the heirs of the black slaves, or the people who enslaved them.
Know your enemies.
jdm +1
Jason Whitlock weighs in with his take and it’s a good one.
https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/oped/whitlock-scrap-juneteenth-for-1865?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220620Trending-WhitlockJuneteenth&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
Blacks can never be truly free until they are back in their ancestral homeland.
Blacks can never be truly free until they are back in their ancestral homeland.
The same homeland where their neighbors sold their ancestors into slavery? I’m guessing my black friends would say “I’ll pass on that one.”
Well said, by the way, on the infringements on liberty performed by Walz and many others. Jefferson was so right when he noted that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
To the subject of Juneteenth, I think it’s pretty cool that General Granger made the order known on his first day in Galveston. Being prompt like that is worth celebrating, I think.