Verified Hate: Traditional Juneteenth Celebrations Edition
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, June 20, 2023
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I hope you all had a blessed and joyful Juneteenth National Independence Day. It’s worth remembering that is the official name of the day. One is tempted to ask what “independence” is being celebrated, given that blacks are fiercely resistant to being cut off from whites permanently subsidizing their strange lifestyles.
I also hope you were not caught up in the traditional celebrations. You may ask what is “traditional” about this recent holiday (supported by every single Republican senator). It appears to be mass shootings.
In Asheville, North Carolina, celebrations were canceled after a shooting on the first day. (Police arrested an underage suspect, so no picture is available.) There was also a shooting in Milwaukee, caught on camera.
The shooting at MLK and Chambers that injured six as Milwaukee’s Juneteenth celebration was ending Monday was caught on camera. https://t.co/KBHgs8lHm1 pic.twitter.com/0IooZQ9mGN
— FOX6 News (@fox6now) June 20, 2023
In Illinois, one man was killed and 22 were injured. Police arrested a suspect and the dead man’s family is suing the property owner where the Juneteenth celebration took place. They blame the property owner for not doing enough to secure the crowd. The White House said that “this type of gun violence needs to stop.” There was also a Juneteenth shooting in San Diego.
At least there were no reports of ambulances being delayed by twerking blacks like there was in Oakland 2021.
Shooting at Oakland CA Juneteenth celebrations last night, leave 1 dead and 5 injured. This is how people reacted when the EMTs arrived. pic.twitter.com/AcFPciJuzq
— Anthea (@Anthea06274890) June 21, 2021
At least not yet.
Such festive celebrations set the tone for social media, where Republican support for Juneteenth (and President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation) did little to encourage patriotic feeling among blacks. Many suggested that Juneteenth is just a stepping-stone to further concessions.
Celebrating Juneteenth with Congresswoman @RepMaxineWaters, honoring the day we got the news of emancipation and our continued struggle for racial justice in America. RECLAIMING OUR TIME!! ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/IMOTgT80RF
— Rep. Justin Jones (@brotherjones_) June 20, 2023
Liberation includes economic liberation. https://t.co/Oqi0V2Zzbf
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) June 19, 2023
Is Juneteenth “divisive?”
Is it about race?— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 19, 2023
It’s Juneteenth AND reparations.
It’s Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs.
It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid.
It’s Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country.
Black liberation must be prioritized.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) June 19, 2023
Naturally, National Review is concerned about the crazy progressives politicizing our sacred holiday of Juneteenth. In a column entitled “Defiling Juneteenth,” Noah Rothman accused the Daily Beast’s Kali Holloway of a “transparent effort to launder partisan political narratives and appropriate for herself the gravity of a day devoted to solemn reflections on the abolition of slavery,” something “more exploitative of our shared heritage than anything the Republicans she set out to condemn have done.” Miss Holloway had accused the GOP of being the “neo-Confederate party.” (If only.)
The Daily Wire’s Tim Meads bemoaned that “whatever Juneteenth once stood for as a state holiday is dead and gone.” What else could it ever have stood for?
Whatever Juneteenth once stood for as a state holiday is dead and gone. Today, leftists use the new federal holiday as merely the latest tool to advance “equity”—aka race-based discrimination—and further entrench Critical Race Theory into American society.https://t.co/ir0GthDaC5
— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) June 19, 2023
Another right-of-center writer defends the holiday for marking when we started “living up to our founding creed.”
Juneteenth isn’t some “woke” new holiday invented by the left. It has been celebrated in Texas since 1866, it’s the annual observance of the end of slavery in 1865. Is the day we started living up to our founding creed.
The left has plenty of excesses to roast, Juneteenth is not…
— Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) June 19, 2023
If so, we need to rethink “our founding creed.” It’s not what the Founders themselves believed.
The day becoming another ceremonial airing of grievances by our subsidized underclass against their benefactors was the most natural progression in the world. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is little different. This didn’t stop tiresome claims that the day is really about heroic Republicans fighting against racist Democrats. Few are convinced by this except white conservatives.
Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) June 19, 2023
There was no race-based chattel slavery here before Christians came
England, Russia, Spain, France, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, South Africa, India, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico & Peru abolished it b4 US
America is literally where slavery came to live https://t.co/wZb36uvXCO
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 19, 2023
“Why is the left is defiling Juneteenth!”
“No, it’s the Trumpists who are defiling our sacred national celebration!”
“We’re all just one race: the human race.”
It’s like a work of art. pic.twitter.com/KHRoYXYroT
— Sir Aesop Americus⚜️ (@GiovanniMandev1) June 20, 2023
It’s also just another day for bloodlust against white Southerners, a hate far more consuming than Union soldiers themselves possessed.
The US should’ve ma$$ac1ed every single slave owner following the civil war, the fact they didn’t has terrible consequences to this day https://t.co/Ap7j5JpZPz
— Maoist Rákosi (@Rakosigonzalo) June 19, 2023
Happy Juneteenth, everyone! pic.twitter.com/G1HXkQxQth
— SDL (@SocDoneLeft) June 19, 2023
Professor Marc Lamont Hill’s tweet perhaps best sums up the day in his response to Candace Owens.
ALL holidays are made up. You honor July 4th, which commemorates “independence” despite the fact that Black people were still enslaved. You celebrate Thanksgiving, which whitewashes indigenous genocide. Yet you’re bothered by Juneteenth, which celebrates Black freedom? Why? 🤔 https://t.co/tiyHgAJW63
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 19, 2023
Juneteenth is and was always supposed to be a replacement for July 4. It’s an independence day for a new nation, separate from the old America, which is probably dead anyway. The American flag is hardly important to the federal government anyway compared to anti-white intersectional flag. We saw that with the Potomac Regime’s “pride” celebrations. It’s a strange country where you are supposed to be ashamed of your ancestors, but fiercely proud of sexual fetishes.
If I could make Real Americans understand one thing: it’s not yours anymore
They aren’t your laws, your police, your borders, your military, your schools, your foreign policy, your debt
You don’t have any of those things
You just live here https://t.co/PXwJspBQWs
— Bennett’s Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) June 11, 2023
“What does it mean when my nation places a new flag in a position of primacy on the building that houses the president?” you might be saying to yourself pic.twitter.com/UTULYNy7Th
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 11, 2023
“What does it mean when my military is saluting a new flag?” you might ask yourself pic.twitter.com/Wdi2JqFav0
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 8, 2023
The intersectional flag, seemingly just to be anti-white, has black and brown stripes. Victimhood is status in post-America, so this attempt to forge a united Coalition of the Oppressed also featured whiners muscling in on Juneteenth. Tariq Nasheed of “Buck Breaking” fame was not happy.
What
the
hell
does
slavery and Juneteenth
have to
do with…
(never mind)
🤦🏿♂️ https://t.co/zlfi5mal3A— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) June 20, 2023
Hey, we don’t make the rules.
Hollywood’s line on race has been awful for decades. However, now the Oscars will be just another affirmative action award, with a racial quota or a focus on an “underrepresented group” now a requirement. The Godfather, for example, could never win now.
Oscars voters: new diversity rules for Best Picture ‘completely ridiculous’ https://t.co/EbhubyUg7T pic.twitter.com/QVb5MaqINE
— New York Post (@nypost) June 16, 2023
Still, the new rules should appease those who are infuriated by seeing white people on screen doing, well, anything.
The Big Lebowski, a movie about a lazy white guy that validates under functioning lazy white guys makes me want to burn things. I can almost not manage my rage at that movie. https://t.co/TmLJVzTc3K
— kyla wazana tompkins (@kwazana) June 14, 2023
CNN ran a story on Father’s Day lecturing America about stereotypes of nonexistent black fathers. Unfortunately for CNN’s journalists, Community Notes came in hot with some straight facts.
CNN just got NUKED by Community Notes pic.twitter.com/pUzadi16yz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 18, 2023
He hasn’t given Jared Taylor his account back but give Elon Musk credit for Community Notes.
In once Great Britain, a migrant with a violent history killed three people. However, don’t expect change. Instead, in another traditional ritual, one of the victim’s mothers urged the entirely white crowd not to give in to “hate.”
This is always the mandated response for whites. You’re just supposed to move on and reaffirm your intolerance for “hate.” That’s it. https://t.co/KJLPByyQ0V
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) June 16, 2023
When non-whites kill whites, it’s a simple, random tragedy, like an earthquake or hurricane. (Well, not a hurricane, because those can be blamed on climate change.) When there is a vanishingly rare case of whites killing blacks, it’s the basis of a new national holiday and an entry in the British peerage. Somehow, I don’t think any of the victims’ mothers in this case will be made baronesses, unlike the mother of the late Stephen Lawrence.
Of course, whether the English people even exist is now questionable. “Anglo-Saxons” are apparently an invention and the English have no indigenous homeland.
‘The white British population are certainly not the indigenous people of the British Isles. They are the descendants of immigrants who arrived on boats.’ https://t.co/FDYxEag1d1
— Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine (@philosophybites) June 19, 2023
One wonders whether the man with the Ukrainian flag in his username thinks Ukrainians are indigenous to their homeland, or if it is just the English who are homeless. Perhaps the Ukrainians are justified in fighting against Russia, but have no right to keep out anyone else.
Crime is high in Minneapolis, but the Department of Justice is concerned about “racism.” Not surprisingly, its investigation into the police department found a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination. Other facts received less media coverage.
Department of Justice says Minneapolis police are racist because they stop black at 6.5x the rate of whites.
But blacks in the city are over 30x more likely to shoot someone.
They’ve indeed discovered systematic discrimination. But it’s against whites. https://t.co/zsBayBHwT7 pic.twitter.com/pGAP1Ugp7e
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 19, 2023
Still, if blacks’ feelings will always be preeminent in our national dialogue, there will always be a need to discuss racism and discrimination.
Nearly three-fourths (73.4%) of African Americans “resent when whites deny the existence of racial discrimination.”
There are, however, ideological differences. While 57% of black conservatives resent whites when they deny racial discrimination, 84% of black liberals do. pic.twitter.com/9byVY9qscf
— The Missing Data Depot (@data_depot) June 19, 2023
And don’t look for conservatives to make a difference when they are either too ignorant or too cowardly to honestly confront the truth about race. For example, here’s National Review’s Dan McLaughlin showing what we’ve come to expect from America’s leading voice of controlled opposition.
Gender differences are real.
Religious differences are real.
Cultural differences are real.
Racial differences are not real.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 19, 2023
The reality is that this is what our people face.
Quelle horreur. Bordeaux aujourd’hui. Voilà ce qu’ils ont fait de notre pays. Français, réveillez-vous. pic.twitter.com/isuIzeHM96
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) June 19, 2023
An uncertain trumpet will not suffice to wake our people around the world from their slumber.