The struggle is that blacks continued to get used for political gain. There is racism holding black people down, but most of it is not coming from white folks. -You have a sitting black Supreme Court Justice who instead of being held up as a role model, is being called an "Uncle Tom." -The same holds true for a black neurosurgeon who was head of HUD. Why is he not a role model??? -Condoleezza Rice was the first black female Secretary of State, and the first female National Security Advisor. Do you recall anyone celebrating this milestone? Of course not. It's all politics. It's all destruction. She earned that position, it was not given to her so she could be beholden. Nothing but silence from other blacks. Here is a recent post on the website of the Museum of African American History within in the Smithsonian complex: See all the things the Smithsonian Institute calls "being white"? These are the basics that most anyone who succeeds in life adheres to, and the Museum of African American History in Washington DC tells black Americans to "not be this." This is endorsing at the highest levels the repression of blacks who dare to do well...in other words, who "act white." Only public outcry caused it to be removed. No one got fired. There's your repression.
In the history of mankind, there has been no race that hasn’t been enslaved at some time and somewhere in all of our ancestries we have someone who has either been enslaved or owned slaves or both. That said, for as much political BS going on about racism in the U.S., the U.S. was the FIRST country in the World to 1. Abolish the purchase of slaves then 2. abolish slavery altogether and 3. insure equal rights among the races AND genders via the Civil Rights Amendment. I do not read nor hear ANYONE on the left wanting to celebrate how magnificent this country has progressed in regard to going beyond skin color but yet the political Marxists and anarchists keep ginning up more and more tension among those who haven’t yet learned of our true history. June teenth, whilst it has some significance, should in no way overshadow the efforts and successes of what our forefathers had up to and including those who stood up to slavery in our own Civil War. So far as making June teenth a Federal Holiday? Like Memorial Day, how many people working in the Federal sector are going to take a taxpayer paid day off and give two thoughts of the significance of the day?
Never before in history has taking the role of repressor by one of the repressed over their "own people" been so damned lucrative.
Just another type of slavery if one thinks about it. The garbage that is presently being practiced is doing what enslaving the body could never do. It enslaves the mind. And yes, it is indeed very, very lucrative.
Are you serious ??? It's the "content of one's character" that should determine whether someone should be held up as a role model. What about Thurgood Marshall? . Numerous memorials have been dedicated to Marshall.
Those men are succeeding in a system that gets fundamentally rejected by "activists." The damage is not being done to those good men (because they and anyone with any sense knows the truth), the damage is being done to a mass of young men who are still being immersed in the "you don't play that game" crap, where "that game" is the state of being everyone else in this country has (per that Smithsonian Institute graphic.) It's so [intentionally] destructive. edit to add: I was gonna attach vids of Thomas being referred to this way, and the apologists "clarifying the meaning," but there are only longish vids. Searching on "clarence thomas uncle tom" brings up results. It is disgusting, and it's disingenuous.
Where we live, with the demographics of less than 1/2 percent Black, it wasn't celebrated very much. Just like Martin Luther King Day isn't either. We did watch The Green Book yesterday afternoon. Have watched that movie a number of times and have always liked it. Just like the movie, Hidden Figures. Both terrific! We love all of the old Motown groups. Actually, my wife got me into listening to them. She was raised with Motown, whereas I wasn't. Then, there is the bands, Kool And The Gang and Earth, Wind and Fire.
He was indeed a crucial key in the search for civil rights and just off the top of my head, it’s too bad he didn’t live to see the Mandated integration of our school system. At some point I believe it was he who said that black people (or it might have been Negro) had enough handicaps that they shouldn’t have to pay taxes to support the education of white people to learn how to suppress them. When I first read that it brought some confusion because when I went to school, we were integrated and I went to a lot of schools most of which are located in the south. So, why shouldn’t people of color pay taxes the same as white people? It was only in the 60’s that I learned of scholastic segregation so it made a little more sense. Not that I was blind to “colored” restrooms or “colored” water fountains, but I didn’t know until George Wallace made his big debut that there were schools for whites and schools for blacks.
No Lon, I did not and will not celebrate Juneteenth and do not respect the fact that biden made it a federal holiday. Because I believe the reason he did it was just more of him bowing to the woke, cancel, and politically correct nonsense/groups. I also do not believe that slaves descendants have struggled anymore then many of us, of any and all colors and life circumstances.
I strongly disagree. Blacks have had to struggle much more than white people to get ahead. There are many examples that verify this fact.