Whenever I see the words “What to know” in a headline, I get the feeling that the reporter has some things we’re supposed to know, that she’ll tell us, and there are other things not to know, which she’s keeping from us for our own good.

More often, the phrase that preys is, “What you need to know about … .” The journalist, in secular Pope mode, isn’t just reporting factual information; he is (sorry, “they” is) making sure you understand The Narrative. And you’d better understand and repeat it if you know what’s good for you.

As for Juneteenth (incidentally, the spell checker doesn’t recognize the word and puts a squiggly red line under it — the programmers need to get with the program now! or face the consequences), I thought St. Martin Luther King Day would be enough of a bone tossed to the 13 percent. How naive. A force set in motion tends to stay in motion …

Like the ancient 35 year old tradition of Kwanza

A holiday spawned by Saint George Floyd, a career criminal, ex-convict, habitual hard drug user, a violent degenerate. Hey, what could go wrong? He’s a helluva role model for da yuts out there. Just don’t find yourself in the vicinity since some bullets may go flying around indiscriminately. Any other group do this when they get together? Its bad enough being subjected to their music which all those tax eaters always seem to want to blast at everyone else.

Interesting how the primitive simian appearance of these blacks & mulattoes strangely & directly corresponds with their bizarre retrograde primate behavior & animalistic actions.

Just one day to beware of large gatherings of blacks??? O no no no. 365 days a year around the clock beware. I’ve heard jokes from “colored” comedians on stage with their quips “ya know if a few black people are walking down any downtown street and notice a group of white behind them they get ignored. But if a group of other blacks are in a pack coming behind them well then shit is about to start and time to RUN!!!” And the audience laughs because they know damn well that’s true. So, it’s not just one day to beware it’s rather ALL DAYS AND NIGHTS to beware. Even the “colored” folks will attest to that.

Juneteenth seems to have gone unnoticed by the general public at the time. I’ve reviewed microfilmed issues of Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune from June 20, 1865 and thirty days afterward and found no mention of it at all. In the chaos of the immediate postwar period, it took the news from Texas about a week to appear, but there is nothing about Grainger or his proclamation reported in the loudest antislavery mainstream voice. The claim is made that Texan slaves did not know they had been freed, but that is highly unlikely. There was word of mouth and there were newspapers and telegraph lines. I found a detailed report of Lee’s surrender in a Galveston paper printed four days after the event. Kirby Smith and his rebel army were in control of Texas until they surrendered in Galveston to US forces on June 2 and mostly headed for Mexico. They knew the war was lost, as did other Texans, white and black.

In any case slavery ended in America on December 5 of that year, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. If the slaveholders had accepted Lincoln’s “olive branch” offered in the 1862 State of the Union address they could have retained the institution until 1900, and received full monetary compensation for the value of their human property, for whose repatriation to Africa a federal bond issue was proposed, but that is perhaps another story. It may be appropriate to quote the following from a prominent black leftist site, “Any effort to make Juneteenth a national holiday should be viewed with caution. Such a designation would only continue the telling of false tales. It would allow the bad actors of the present day to get away with cheap theatrics … Corporations which work against the people’s interests should not be allowed to absolve themselves by engaging in performative acts. Politicians who aid them at every turn should not be permitted to utter Juneteenth platitudes and create a new public relations farce. An opportunity to discuss resistance against oppression has been turned into a substance-free feel good day.”

Sure enough, Senile Jo and the Nut-Brown Maid both used the occasion to stridently urge blacks to vote Democratic, although Trump’s popularity in than demographic has tripled since 2020.

As far as I know there has never been an American Negro Parade along the lines of The Puerto Rican Day Parade, The Salute to Israel Parade, Von Steuben’s Day Parade, an Orange March, Saint Patrick’s Day Parade nor Gay Pride Parade. Neither Mardi Gras nor the Mummers have African themed floats or costumes. This would indicate to me Bl@cks have no interest in this type of commemoration or celebration.
Juneteenth seems to me like King Day and Kwanzaa made up holidays which are essentially meaningless to most American Bl@cks.

My Juneteenth is April 1 – Mitchell Day – because I don’t like working more than eight hours a day if I can help it. Thank you John Mitchell.

‘Just one day to beware of large gatherings of blacks??? O no no no. 365 days a year around the clock beware. I’ve heard jokes from “colored” comedians on stage with their quips “ya know if a few black people are walking down any downtown street and notice a group of white behind them they get ignored. But if a group of other blacks are in a pack coming behind them well then shit is about to start and time to RUN!!!” And the audience laughs because they know damn well that’s true. So, it’s not just one day to beware it’s rather ALL DAYS AND NIGHTS to beware. Even the “colored” folks will attest to that.’

Be fair. A black comedian could read the weather report and people would laugh. Blacks are very amusing.

…until they forget their place.

‘…Juneteenth seems to me like King Day and Kwanzaa made up holidays which are essentially meaningless to most American Bl@cks.’

Nu? Create a holiday for your dog. See if he notices.

The reference to Puerto Rican Day reminds me, though. One of the trivial tragedies of recent years (immediately erased by the media) occurred when some young Puerto Rican couple participating in a car parade celebrating the day in Chicago (wave the flag, honk your horn, I won’t attend, thank you, but okay…) were dragged out and killed by our favorite minority.

Not my people, but they looked like nice youngsters. Maybe the male half got uppity or something.