The word "Juneteenth" sounds ignorant and uneducated. I thought that the first time I heard it and I still do. Like you can't say "June 19th" for some reason? It would embarrass me. Not only that, it memorializes when a president of one country "freed" the slaves in a completely different country, but not in the country he ruled. But any excuse to shut government offices for a day is fine with me.
“Not only that, it memorializes when a president of one country "freed" the slaves in a completely different country, but not in the country he ruled.”
ReplyDeleteExactly. To officially “memorialize” a self-serving empty gesture that was no more than an act of political hypocrisy is a joke in very bad taste.
Why is that so hard for people to grasp?
DeleteI can only think it is a further manifestation of the phenomena that Ron Paul commented on; that “truth is a crime in the empire of lies”. Regrettably the use of reason, and the truth it can reveal, is becoming less and less common among the human race and is increasingly denigrated and condemned in the instances when it still is.
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