Seriously, "Juneteenth" has a very definite, condescending "Awwww, isn't that precious how they pronounce it?" vibe, part of the Left's on-going infantilization of African-Americans. Why not just call it emancipation day, and use the date of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, rather than the day it was made official in Texas? I'm not sure why the roll-out in Texas takes precedence over any other day; was this the last date emancipation became official in the now-vanquished confederacy? And how much longer will the Democrats keep trying to buy off black people with symbolic acts of "empowerment", while they permit complete outlawry to prevail in cities like Chicago and continue to encourage racial enmity in schools? (I know, I know: as long as they can get away with it).
Update America Celebrates Juneteenth, The Day Republicans Freed All The Democrats' Slaves
I'd prefer when the 13th Amendment was ratified, 6 December. That's more fitting than the Emancipation Proclamation, which only covered some of the states. YMMV.
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, "Junteeth" is definitely condescending.
Every catchphrase from the left, if not outright evil (and even the ones that are not explicitly so are implicitly evil) is moronic or infantile. Case in point: woke.
ReplyDeleteContrary to what they claim now, woke is their own word. They coined it as shorthand for the entire litany of progressive shibboleths they must hold and express. Once it became a subject of mockery they dropped it, pretending those dopey ultra mega MAGA white supremacists invented it because they're too stupid to articulate their arguments.
Anyway, we used to have a federal holiday honoring the man who issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But once the DNC media figured out that guy was a Republican, he had to go.
I posted this elsewhere, so why not here. Being a Texan, I was taught in grade school that Juneteenth meant black Texans were the last to know black slaves in Texas had been given freedom, and being told that it was sad that blacks in Texas had to wait so long to find out. Only black Texans celebrated it, and nobody outside of Texas had ever heard of it. My mother always cautioned the family about staying home on that date because, the Woke Gods forgive us, black celebrations too often turned violent. I don't remember if my history teachers told us that December 6, 1865 was the actual date when slavery became illegal in the US, but I wonder now that it's general knowledge how long it will take for various groups to start agitating for another federal holiday.
ReplyDeleteOf course, none of that mitigates the Jim Crow BS that still held sway until I was an adult.