Juneteenth

[VolsSportsFan]

Boy, this thread didn't disappoint - barely three pages in and the usual suspects are predictably whining.

Brought to you by the same side that loses their s*** if everyone doesn't say Merry Christmas and considers that persecution.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Oh yes, poor white people. Stop bringing up the sh** they did for hundreds of years because damn it they are sure tired of hearing about it! THINK OF THE WHITE PEOPLE!

Man you are sure butthurt.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Not really. Before last year, very few people actually celebrated accept a few in a couple of states. Let's ease up on the hyperbole.

Citation please.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Brought to you by the same side that loses their s*** if everyone doesn't say Merry Christmas and considers that persecution.

No, it's the other side that gets their panties all twisted. Guess what. I will still say Merry Christmas. If it offends you then I am sorry, but you really need to grow up.

 

[SamRebel35]

BIDEN: Juneteenth is "a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country—and continues to take." which can be exploited for my own political gain

Yeah, I can't see how this holiday could ever be used as a political weapon... JFC

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Citation please.

Just going off of my personal experience.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Just going off of my personal experience.

ROFL.

Never fails.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Just going off of my personal experience.

No one every heard about this until a year or maybe two ago. Just like the Tulsa thing.

I still don't care about either.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

ROFL.

Never fails.

I can't be everywhere, I do realize using personal experience can be flawed.

 

[RavinDave]

I won't gaf anymore about this than I do Kwaanzaa. I won't be celebrating anything unless there is some government office I need and it is actually open. But that is way too much to ask.

Edit: Well that was fast

Federal employees to get Friday off for new ‘Juneteenth’ holiday

And why is it called the "National Independence Day Act"?

I actually enjoy telling people Happy Juneteenth!

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

No one every heard about this until a year or maybe two ago. Just like the Tulsa thing.

I still don't care about either.

That's partially true.

You really seem to underestimate how many people know about Tuskegee and Tulsa. Tulsa got a bunch of buzz about 20 years ago when the movie Rosewood came out. Now I'm sure before that movie came out, you might not have had a lot of people that were aware of what happened in Tulsa.

With regards to Juneteenth, LOL, yeah, this is some over hyped nonsense that is being thrown out here.

 

[n_huffhines]

Time heals all wounds? Unless people keep picking at the scabs to keep it going.

That's not really the point I was making. A lot of us see ourselves as part of a victimized group, whether we think there is a war on Christianity or that we're the target of racial discrimination. I chose not to be Mormon and that's got to have something to do with the reason I don't carry it. Slavery was infinitely worse than what happened to my Mormon ancestors, and they can't just stop being black.

So the point is, it's actually pretty understandable that a large part of the black community still carries it in a very heavy way. White Christians will line up to tell you that blacks interested in criminal justice reform need to stop being victims, but they'll just nod their heads when their pals talk about how unfair media is to Christians.

It's in our nature to be victims and/or to be more tolerant of the victims with whom we identify.

 

[C-south]

Do we have a national hymn? I mean before this? Seems at odds with the no religion bit.

Do we just hum words?

 

[LouderVol]

Multigenerational trauma is a real thing.

Only if you let it.

@Orangeslice13

 

[YankeeVol]

I'm all for days off.

 

[wmcovol]

How would you like the demand to be packaged? Like you just want Biden to publicly call for the end of sex slavery?

What makes you say they are ignoring it? Have they diverted funds away from existing programs for combatting sex trafficking, or something?

Acknowledge & address it with the other leaders in the world would be a start.

Yes, diverting funds from border security promotes it. Biden’s open borders policy supports the Cartel that promotes child sex trafficking. Many of these children are sold by their parents in Central America to mules who act as parents to bring to the US. We only catch a fraction of children smuggled in during this crisis. The cartel can only sell a drug once but they can sell children multiple times. It’s a sick world out there.

 

[508mikey]

Do we just hum words?

Kneel

 

[n_huffhines]

Acknowledge & address it with the other leaders in the world would be a start.

Yes, diverting funds from border security promotes it. Biden’s open borders policy supports the Cartel that promotes child sex trafficking. Many of these children are sold by their parents in Central America to mules who act as parents to bring to the US. We only catch a fraction of children smuggled in during this crisis. The cartel can only sell a drug once but they can sell children multiple times. It’s a sick world out there.

Gimme a break.

 

[golfballs]

For shallow emotional idiots yes. Me I could care less what my ancestors had done to them 500 years ago

There are atrocities that have occurred in a lot of countries but we’re the only ones who self-flagellate

They caved for casinos & ending college and pro mascots

lmao

 

[AshG]

That's not really the point I was making. A lot of us see ourselves as part of a victimized group, whether we think there is a war on Christianity or that we're the target of racial discrimination. I chose not to be Mormon and that's got to have something to do with the reason I don't carry it. Slavery was infinitely worse than what happened to my Mormon ancestors, and they can't just stop being black.

So the point is, it's actually pretty understandable that a large part of the black community still carries it in a very heavy way. White Christians will line up to tell you that blacks interested in criminal justice reform need to stop being victims, but they'll just nod their heads when their pals talk about how unfair media is to Christians.

It's in our nature to be victims and/or to be more tolerant of the victims with whom we identify.

Sociology and behavior studies don't go over well here. Too many people who hate the marketplace of Ideas but are hiding in their own ideological silo.

 

[wmcovol]

Gimme a break.

 

[LouderVol]

The only real con to this is referring to it as Juneteeth. That's some straight up uneducated hood rat jive talk.

"National Independence Day" is stupid too, but I wouldn't really expect anything else from PedoJoe signing something that was rushed faster than his prune juice barreling towards his colon...but its just semantics.

Hopefully the PedoJoe administration will keep its focus on eliminating the racially based federal holiday disparity in this country so we can all begin to heal.

Sigh. Straight up DA to refer to a 150 year old phrase has hood rat jive.

Just because you are too uneducated to know our nations history doesnt excuse you making bad assumptions about things you have no clue over.

 

[LouderVol]

Maybe Trump's tenure was more about what wasn't done to us than what was done to us. A lot of this nonsense went away while Trump was president - probably because the dems were too busy trying to impeach him. I think perhaps you are forgetting that congress legislates - a president can prompt them to act - maybe they will and maybe they won't. Republicans didn't hold majorities in both houses of congress and lock dems out to carry out a Trump agenda - like dims did obamaCare. The truth was Trump wasn't an insider and nobody in congress was particularly fond of him - we need more of that. The simple fact is there are plenty of real things to deal with - pandering to groups to curry favor is wasted time ... and money.

Presidents always get the blame and the praise. Was Reagan great or his congress? Was Carter bad or his congress? Bush 1 or 2? Clinton? Obama? Ready to make those same excuses for each?

Willing to bet you arent.

Who is in charge matters. There is a reason the presidency is considered the highest office.

And no it didnt stop under trump. Remember the riots last summer? Worse than anything under Obama. Or what about the bump stock ban, was that a pause in the gun grabber scheme?

Trump sucked, stopped pretending otherwise. And the otherwise lame excuse of the guy sucking more. Has nothing to do with how much Trump sucked.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Presidents always get the blame and the praise. Was Reagan great or his congress? Was Carter bad or his congress? Bush 1 or 2? Clinton? Obama? Ready to make those same excuses for each?

Willing to bet you arent.

Who is in charge matters. There is a reason the presidency is considered the highest office.

And no it didnt stop under trump. Remember the riots last summer? Worse than anything under Obama. Or what about the bump stock ban, was that a pause in the gun grabber scheme?

Trump sucked, stopped pretending otherwise. And the otherwise lame excuse of the guy sucking more. Has nothing to do with how much Trump sucked.

well OK then

 

[wmcovol]

Presidents always get the blame and the praise. Was Reagan great or his congress? Was Carter bad or his congress? Bush 1 or 2? Clinton? Obama? Ready to make those same excuses for each?

Willing to bet you arent.

Who is in charge matters. There is a reason the presidency is considered the highest office.

And no it didnt stop under trump. Remember the riots last summer? Worse than anything under Obama. Or what about the bump stock ban, was that a pause in the gun grabber scheme?

Trump sucked, stopped pretending otherwise. And the otherwise lame excuse of the guy sucking more. Has nothing to do with how much Trump sucked.

75 million say you’re wrong.