Friday, June 19, 2020

Thought For The Day


Black Lives Matter
June 19, 2020
Juneteenth 2020. Under the orange gas cloud of the most racist American president in a very long time.
On June 19, 1865 Union army general Gordon Granger exposed a dirty little secret in the city of Galveston, Texas. On that day the last slaves in America learned that they had been freed almost two and a half years earlier thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. That of course came after the defeat of the treasonous Confederacy, whose “heroes” are finally receiving their just desserts. Statues of these enemies of the United States are finally being, in many cases unceremoniously, removed from public view. Probably not a bad idea to put monuments to these hateful bigots to rest – somewhat more than two and a half years after they officially became the vile losers they always were.
Billie Holliday – Strange Fruit
Now we just need to remove one more monument to racism, a living hateful bigot, a heinous enemy of the United States, from the highest office in the land and from the People’s House. Hopefully, not by another war between the states, but at the ballot box.
Gil Scott-Heron – Winter in America

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