1/ This is one of the best investigative pieces I have ever written, as fresh today as when I first published it three years ago.
It's a story of corrupt Democrats and cowardly Republicans who worked hand-in-glove to inscribe anti-whiteness in our holiday calendar.
Buckle up.
2/ The public (exoteric) meaning of Juneteenth couldn't be more benign.
Who could object to honoring the end of slavery, an event that all Americans celebrate.
3/ But the REAL reason Juneteenth transformed itself from a semi-obscure local holiday in Texas to a national commemoration was not about slavery.
It was about Post-George Floyd moral panic, and how cowardly GOP leaders succumbed to it.
4/ Today's far-left racial politics, not a celebration of slavery's end, explains why statues of Floyd were unveiled on the first Juneteenth holiday.
“It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it,” Trump said with his typical bluntness.
5/ He wasn't exaggerating:
Joe Biden never tweeted about Juneteenth in his decades as a Senator or VP until 2019-- when he was already running for President.
He wasn't alone in his ignorance:
6/ On the eve of Juneteenth being declared a national holiday in 2021, 60% of Americans confessed to the respected pollster Gallup that they knew "little to nothing" about it.
As late as 2002, only eight states had *any* recognition of Juneteenth.
7/ The "father" of Juneteenth was former Texas State Rep. Al Edwards.
Left-leaning Texas Monthly described Edwards in 1983, three years after he passed a bill celebrating Juneteenth, as one of Texas' worst legislators:
8/Barbara Rose-Collins, the Detroit Congresswoman. who first proposed a federal acknowledgement of Juneteenth was arguably even worse:
9/ It's not an accident that some of the worst, most corrupt race-baiters in public life were pushing Juneteenth.
The left sees Juneteenth it as an excuse to excoriate whites and do race-based shakedowns. (Here's a headline from today's Juneteenth)
10/ Obviously, anyone stupid enough to fall for the tricks of race-hustling Dem charlatans should nowhere near GOP leadership.
11/ But it was @JohnCornyn, a Texas Senator who wants to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP leader, who introduced the legislation in 2021 to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
We can't allow cowards like Cornyn who bow before the altar of anti-whiteness to lead the GOP.
12/ There *is* a good solution.
We could combine Juneteenth with MLK Day into a single federal holiday (as Washington and Lincoln's Birthdays were eventually combined into the President's Day holiday) saving billions of $ and reducing opportunities for Dem race-baiting.
13/ To read the whole sordid history of how a pleasant local commemoration became a national anti-white shakedown, read my article in @amgreatmness.
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