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.”
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?