Just an Insight or Thought for Consideration

Just an Insight or Thought for Consideration

It is harder that one would like to shut-off the musings of the brain and critical thought

 Juneteenth today? Now, according to Wikipedia – “Juneteenth is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Originating in Texas, it is now celebrated annually on the 19th of June throughout the United States, with varying official recognition.” Wikipedia. Furthermore, the article adds, “Emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy.”

      Tell me please...what are people of color, African Americans, Blacks, celebrating;

From the brilliant, yet almost make-believe writing of Mr. Alstead W. Herndon he provides us with this... “In a city that has become known as a landmark to black pain, Friday was a day for black joy.

More than a thousand people gathered along Greenwood Avenue — the site of one of America’s worst racist attacks — to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates when enslaved black Americans in Texas formally learned of emancipation. The end of a centuries-long massacre (emphasis added by author.)

In any year, Juneteenth in Tulsa means something different than it does in other cities, according to black residents. The exuberance more palpable, the music more soulful, against the backdrop of the 1921 white riot that killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans and destroyed the area once known as “Black Wall Street.”

“We’re celebrating the emancipation of slaves, but we’re really celebrating the idea of being black,” said Jacquely Simmons, who has lived in Tulsa for 45 years. “We love it and we love us.”

So critically what is it? In an article that is supposed to be of a celebratory connotation, when one thinks about what is really being stated here has nothing whatsoever to do with slavery. From that prospective, one does not know whether to applaud or cry? It actually reads like a liberal’s tell all story about why he is really angry. Where else could a legitimate person come up with this...?

But this was not any year. Organizers planned to cancel their annual Juneteenth celebration amid the national coronavirus pandemic. Then President Trump announced a campaign rally in the city, originally slated to be held on the Friday holiday but later moved to Saturday evening. Why argue about respecting the rights of others’?

“With that event looming, and national protests raging about racial injustice and police brutality, what was typically a celebration of resilience had transformed into one of defiance. “Black Lives Matter” was painted in bright yellow letters across Greenwood Avenue. Attendees said they were celebrating not only how black ancestors were freed from enslavement, but also the persistence of black Americans today — from a pandemic that has disproportionately affected black communities, police departments that disproportionately kill black people, and a president who has shown little willingness to acknowledge the reality of both.

With the greatest of respect to the writer of the article, this can be taken in so many different ways. This really is no different than any other rant and rave espoused by any number of liberals. This critical thinker is getting so tired of “second verse...same as the first...” What really is foreseen here is gripe, gripe, and more gripping by the same liberals about the same, however exploited, same rubbish with everything that does not work from a tie knot to a blown-out travesty.

Hey, if you are getting ready to celebrate slavery or the end thereto, in a place that was not referring to itself as part of America, say like Texas in the 1870s, then celebrate! But when it comes to rolling over and over again of a 1921 White riot (racism?) would it be the same as say New Orleans during Katrina? Or maybe say Baltimore a few years ago?

As for me and my critical thinking I believe that slavery Ended...Why did a pandemic affect one community over another and that disproportionately? Hey friend, it is my demographical community that is suffering more than all others combined.

So in all sincerity, why the comments about a President who has and who will esteem to greatness again? It appears to me that the other guy –Biden – is trying whether qualified or not to find a woman of color to assist him do what exactly?