It’s June 19th tomorrow, and that means it’s only about two weeks until the Fourth of July, which John Adams said should be ”solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations.”
That’s not good enough for America’s black population, though.
They tend to consider the Fourth of July to be “White People’s Independence Day.”
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks
— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) July 4, 2012
Blacks have their own Black Independence Day—“Juneteenth,” today as prominent a national holiday as Martin Luther King’s Birthday is and as George Washington’s Birthday… isn’t. (We’re supposed to call it “Presidents Day.”)
A while back, I asked “What, To The Historic American Nation, Is Your Juneteenth?” based on a similar question asked by black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass before the Civil War.
I concluded that it wasn’t very important historically and is basically an anti-white hate fest.
What Juneteenth means in practice, however, even before it was an official Federal holiday, is a huge summer street party in black neighborhoods. And what that means, this year as much as last year, is rioting and gunfire. Badly aimed gunfire, true, but frequently lethal.
So what is Juneteenth to you and me? A day to stay inside, or if not, at least to avoid large crowds of blacks, obeying Derbyshire Rules (10a) through (10e):
10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally. (10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods. (10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot). (10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks. (10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
And remember, only fifteen days to the Fourth of July, which I called in 2020 Juneteenth For The Historic American Nation.
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