Today’s story is recycled from June 2022. And, as usual, is worth re-reading inasmuch as it is germane to events of June 2024. Please enjoy it.
We’ll return with a fresh, gluten-free story next week. Thanks for reading.
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| Last look at a 50-star flag, maybe |
We are upon exciting times in our lives. On June 19th, 2022,
“Juneteenth Day” is the latest of holidays enacted into law to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in
African Americans have been fighting for this race-specific holiday for decades, to finally have President Joseph Robinette Biden sign this Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.
This is a noble act, indeed, coming from a life-long politician who, himself, has been an overt racist while serving as a Senator from
He’s made highly offensive remarks about accents of people-of-color, blacks attending largely-white schools, and even giving a glowing eulogy for the late Senator Robert Byrd – a well-known member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Without apologizing for his past vile public remarks, Biden gladly rode the wave of popularity of this landmark bill through what is known as “pandering.”
Still, Juneteenth Day was inaugurally celebrated by a largely black community – the same black community that has lately been screaming at random whites for decades of systemic racism.
Falsely alleging that the celebrated freed African Americans have been targeted for incarceration or murder by police and white supremacists, this fresh holiday was designed to also celebrate nonviolence and multiculturalism.
With a bitter taste still in the mouths of most Americans, from the riots of the death of George Floyd, a Marxist organization designed to intimidate and terrorize whites – Black Lives Matter (BLM) – was contrived to further drive a wedge between the races.
But Juneteenth Day was created to stop some “perceived” superiority of white people over blacks. This effort in and of itself is racist as the pendulum swings from one side to the other.
Gathering in select groups based by race seemed like a stellar idea – something called “segregation” – the thing that prompted the American Civil War to end this behavior.
With such a removed group celebrating the unity and culture and contributions of blacks, it would not be out of the question to expect a more unifying gathering comprised almost exclusively of African Americans.
But you would be wrong.
One of the largest Juneteenth celebrations occurred in
Commonly abbreviated “DC,” this city has been in an embroiled kerfuffle with Congress to change its status from a city to a state. Such a move would create two new Senatorial seats and at least one Congressional seat. And those would likely be Democrat controlled.
Black DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is up for re-election soon, has been an outspoken pro-state advocate for her tiny area. In fact, on Flag Day, which is celebrated on June 14th, Mayor Bowser flew a flag adorned with 51-stars, which represent our number of states.
Her anticipation was greeted with smiles and clenched fists of solidarity, all in apparent approval of her lame effort to circumvent the legal design of DC.
Most visitors to DC come to see the monuments, statues, and museums. However, the drug addicts, and prostitutes, and homeless, are cleverly hidden on side streets and alleys – far enough away from out-of-town visitors’ eyes, and the vision of politicians.
Eager to celebrate a black holiday for black people in a black town, an unauthorized Juneteenth Day party sprouted up like a weed on a golf course. Unfortunately its illegality was ignored by authorities who looked the other way so as not to stifle the festivities.
After all, since guns are illegal in DC – and have been for about 50-years – what kind of trouble could occur?
But it was on this inaugural celebration day that at least one person felt compelled to shoot an illegal gun inside this crowded event. One armed 15-year old African American boy was struck and killed, while countless others were injured by additional partiers running to escape the mayhem.
Here is the bottom line: BLM marched to intimidate guiltless members of our society using mentally twisted theories about racism, desperately trying to continue the sordid practice of segregation, only find that black lives don’t really matter because it’s only a cheap slogan.
