June 19, 2025
On this day in 1865 word finally reached Galveston, Texas, a state that was home to 250,000 slaves, that there had been an Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier. These were the last of the enslaved Black people to learn that their enslavement had at long last, at least technically, ended. For many Black people in America, this is their Fourth of July, their real day of independence – Juneteenth. This of course ended racism in America for all time. No?
Well, at least racism finally ended in America
after we elected a Black president. No?
In a
conversation with political writer John Stoehr, posted on Alternet, a woman with the Bluesky
handle The Angry Black Woman had some
trenchant comments. The topic was whether our current racist-in-chief was “a
dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American
democracy.” A majority of every racial demographic, save one, responded in the
affirmative. Guess which one.
From
the article:
“That
concept of ‘hope’ sits with the white community,” The Angry Black Woman told
me, “and I know they will blow up the world before they admit they were wrong
or actually try to save our country.”
Sounds
pretty fucking accurate.
TABW:
I think that if you bank on white people saving democracy, you should just say
goodbye to it now. They aren't built that way. While I understood why Harris
reached out the way she did, I knew that it was pointless. White people will
choose destruction over equality every single time. So if that is where the
Democrats want to go, good for them. It doesn't mean we won't vote, if we still
can, but that energy that is the base of the party won't be there. Those white
voters are never going to come back and, if they do, they won't be loyal. So
this is just another way that America is showing how little they value us.
Let us all celebrate Juneteenth while it’s still legal.
(seen on No Kings Day) Maybe some day?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For Juneteenth.
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