The Real Meaning Of Juneteenth - The Destruction of the Proud History of the American Republican Form of Government
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 10 months ago to Politics
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Another holiday overshadowed Independence Day this year. Black Independence Day, also known as “Juneteenth,” took center stage at PBS’s annual televised Fourth of July celebration, as singer Vanessa Williams performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the de facto Black National Anthem.
“It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth,” she told the press while promoting the PBS show, in which the 19th overshadowed the fourth throughout.
Juneteenth, in truth, marks the death of the old American nation and the birth of a new one, clawing out from the chest of the Republic in a nightmarish vision that would make Ridley Scott squirm.
The new holiday emerged from the mists of June with feeble opposition from Republicans, who spent months railing about the evils of anti-white critical race theory and the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” only to turn around and inaugurate a national holiday to honor and validate the basic narrative underlying those things.
Just 14 Republicans voted against federalizing the holiday. It didn’t matter to the GOP that a paltry 7 percent of Republican voters wanted it as a new holiday and that more than 60 percent of Americans know “nothing at all” or only “a little bit” about Juneteenth—though that will surely change now. Nationwide, just 35 percent of adults agreed Juneteenth should be a federal holiday, even after months of sustained propagandizing against the backdrop of last year’s riots.
The GOP’s most opportunistic characters were the swiftest to pledge allegiance while dismissing and even browbeating those opposed. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, fresh off vetoing a bill that would have limited transgender participation in women’s sports, hailed Juneteenth as honoring Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy declared every June 19 from now on “is about … the ongoing pursuit of building a more perfect union.” Former Vice President Mike Pence along with Republican Sens. Roger Wicker, Rand Paul, and John Cornyn also praised the holiday in tweets containing Juneteenth hashtags.
Prominent conservative think tank leaders also jumped on board. On the eve of the holiday, Kay James, president of the Heritage Foundation, took shots at critics of the holiday. Former Trump White House deputy advisor Ja’Ron Smith said that Juneteenth was a victory, but “the work is still out there, culturally, to change our country.” Smith represents the America First Policy Institute, the official think tank of Donald Trump.
The only thing more absurd than GOP virtue signaling was the sight of women twerking atop ambulances as medical technicians attempted to access the scene of a shooting amid Juneteenth festivities in Oakland, California. One was killed, and seven were wounded as a crowd of a thousand danced like dervishes for what the opinion page of British left-wing daily newspaper The Guardian called “the real Independence Day.”
The sentiment from the establishment right in America was just as reverent, with neoconservative pundit Jonah Goldberg calling Juneteenth the “American Passover.” “If you honestly think that Juneteenth will supplant the Fourth of July as ‘Independence Day,’ I have good news: You’re wrong,” Goldberg snarks.
Near the publication of Goldberg’s article, it was reported that Evanston, Illinois, had approved Juneteenth festivities and LGBTQ pride parades this year but opted to cancel its Independence Day events. And, the day before Goldberg scribbled down his happy thoughts, Singer Macy Gray declared that a new national flag is required to honor the new independence day. Of the Stars and Stripes, she wrote, “Like the Confederate, it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect. It no longer represents democracy and freedom. It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it.”
Through political stupidity, the GOP and its stooges have allowed the poisoning of America’s cultural waters, claiming good intentions and calling for calm witnesses to our national slaughter. But the people clawing down Independence Day and hoisting Juneteenth as its replacement were quite honest about the true meaning of the new holiday.
There is a historical precedent to Juneteenth: President Ronald Reagan’s signing of Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law, an event which Samuel Francis wrote about in the May 1988 issue of Chronicles. Francis accurately predicted that the logic behind destroying Confederate symbolism would extend to virtually every other symbol of the historic American nation in the shadow of the King holiday. He also perceived King’s entry into the national pantheon, towering over the likes of George Washington, as marking the consummation of a new order that grew out of the smoldering ashes of the old. “We forfeited the right to revere the Constitution, the governmental principles and mechanisms it established, and the men who wrote it when we put Dr. King into the pantheon,” Francis wrote.
“The federalism, rule of law, states’ rights, limits on majority rule, checks and balances, and separation of powers that characterize the Constitution,” Francis explained, “all are incompatible with the full blossoming of the egalitarian democracy that Dr. King envisioned and which is the completion of the radical reconstruction to which his holiday commits us.”
In The Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell similarly identifies the engine of this radical reconstruction as the “rival Constitution” effectively created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As with Juneteenth now, the King holiday then, writes Caldwell, “marked not the end but the beginning of shame, of an official culture that cast their country’s history as one of oppression, and its ideals of liberty as hypocrisies.” Thus, the only acceptable moral outcome was for the old constitutional order to give way to the new—and it did.
This new order is incompatible with the traditional constitutional order conservatives pretend to cherish even as they shout the glories of King and Juneteenth from the highest steeple. At every pivotal moment in America’s culture war, the Republican Party has used its economic policies to distract its voters from the fact it was either ceding cultural ground or selling it wholesale to the enemy. The price of gas gets cut—but so does the throat of the order they claim to defend [Average gas prices in the U.S. were about $3.20 when Pedro wrote this last year].
Both Francis and Caldwell understood that the reason the left relentlessly pursues holidays, flags, and other patriotic symbols, replacing them with their own, is because they are in the business of nation-building. Changing the things from which people draw identity and meaning is how a new nation emerges from the old. The Republican Party has served an important role in the left’s plan, by reconciling Americans to their new gods while deluding them with ephemeral electoral victories, using their last bit of political capital to construct a noose around the neck of the nation.
Another holiday overshadowed Independence Day this year. Black Independence Day, also known as “Juneteenth,” took center stage at PBS’s annual televised Fourth of July celebration, as singer Vanessa Williams performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the de facto Black National Anthem.
“It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth,” she told the press while promoting the PBS show, in which the 19th overshadowed the fourth throughout.
Juneteenth, in truth, marks the death of the old American nation and the birth of a new one, clawing out from the chest of the Republic in a nightmarish vision that would make Ridley Scott squirm.
The new holiday emerged from the mists of June with feeble opposition from Republicans, who spent months railing about the evils of anti-white critical race theory and the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” only to turn around and inaugurate a national holiday to honor and validate the basic narrative underlying those things.
Just 14 Republicans voted against federalizing the holiday. It didn’t matter to the GOP that a paltry 7 percent of Republican voters wanted it as a new holiday and that more than 60 percent of Americans know “nothing at all” or only “a little bit” about Juneteenth—though that will surely change now. Nationwide, just 35 percent of adults agreed Juneteenth should be a federal holiday, even after months of sustained propagandizing against the backdrop of last year’s riots.
The GOP’s most opportunistic characters were the swiftest to pledge allegiance while dismissing and even browbeating those opposed. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, fresh off vetoing a bill that would have limited transgender participation in women’s sports, hailed Juneteenth as honoring Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy declared every June 19 from now on “is about … the ongoing pursuit of building a more perfect union.” Former Vice President Mike Pence along with Republican Sens. Roger Wicker, Rand Paul, and John Cornyn also praised the holiday in tweets containing Juneteenth hashtags.
Prominent conservative think tank leaders also jumped on board. On the eve of the holiday, Kay James, president of the Heritage Foundation, took shots at critics of the holiday. Former Trump White House deputy advisor Ja’Ron Smith said that Juneteenth was a victory, but “the work is still out there, culturally, to change our country.” Smith represents the America First Policy Institute, the official think tank of Donald Trump.
The only thing more absurd than GOP virtue signaling was the sight of women twerking atop ambulances as medical technicians attempted to access the scene of a shooting amid Juneteenth festivities in Oakland, California. One was killed, and seven were wounded as a crowd of a thousand danced like dervishes for what the opinion page of British left-wing daily newspaper The Guardian called “the real Independence Day.”
The sentiment from the establishment right in America was just as reverent, with neoconservative pundit Jonah Goldberg calling Juneteenth the “American Passover.” “If you honestly think that Juneteenth will supplant the Fourth of July as ‘Independence Day,’ I have good news: You’re wrong,” Goldberg snarks.
Near the publication of Goldberg’s article, it was reported that Evanston, Illinois, had approved Juneteenth festivities and LGBTQ pride parades this year but opted to cancel its Independence Day events. And, the day before Goldberg scribbled down his happy thoughts, Singer Macy Gray declared that a new national flag is required to honor the new independence day. Of the Stars and Stripes, she wrote, “Like the Confederate, it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect. It no longer represents democracy and freedom. It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it.”
Through political stupidity, the GOP and its stooges have allowed the poisoning of America’s cultural waters, claiming good intentions and calling for calm witnesses to our national slaughter. But the people clawing down Independence Day and hoisting Juneteenth as its replacement were quite honest about the true meaning of the new holiday.
There is a historical precedent to Juneteenth: President Ronald Reagan’s signing of Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law, an event which Samuel Francis wrote about in the May 1988 issue of Chronicles. Francis accurately predicted that the logic behind destroying Confederate symbolism would extend to virtually every other symbol of the historic American nation in the shadow of the King holiday. He also perceived King’s entry into the national pantheon, towering over the likes of George Washington, as marking the consummation of a new order that grew out of the smoldering ashes of the old. “We forfeited the right to revere the Constitution, the governmental principles and mechanisms it established, and the men who wrote it when we put Dr. King into the pantheon,” Francis wrote.
“The federalism, rule of law, states’ rights, limits on majority rule, checks and balances, and separation of powers that characterize the Constitution,” Francis explained, “all are incompatible with the full blossoming of the egalitarian democracy that Dr. King envisioned and which is the completion of the radical reconstruction to which his holiday commits us.”
In The Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell similarly identifies the engine of this radical reconstruction as the “rival Constitution” effectively created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As with Juneteenth now, the King holiday then, writes Caldwell, “marked not the end but the beginning of shame, of an official culture that cast their country’s history as one of oppression, and its ideals of liberty as hypocrisies.” Thus, the only acceptable moral outcome was for the old constitutional order to give way to the new—and it did.
This new order is incompatible with the traditional constitutional order conservatives pretend to cherish even as they shout the glories of King and Juneteenth from the highest steeple. At every pivotal moment in America’s culture war, the Republican Party has used its economic policies to distract its voters from the fact it was either ceding cultural ground or selling it wholesale to the enemy. The price of gas gets cut—but so does the throat of the order they claim to defend [Average gas prices in the U.S. were about $3.20 when Pedro wrote this last year].
Both Francis and Caldwell understood that the reason the left relentlessly pursues holidays, flags, and other patriotic symbols, replacing them with their own, is because they are in the business of nation-building. Changing the things from which people draw identity and meaning is how a new nation emerges from the old. The Republican Party has served an important role in the left’s plan, by reconciling Americans to their new gods while deluding them with ephemeral electoral victories, using their last bit of political capital to construct a noose around the neck of the nation.
Edit add: I just thought of a scene in the movie "Gladiator" where Maximus is told the emperor has to kill his name before finally killing Maximus. America's good name has to be killed before killing America.
What we all can clearly see now is because the left has lost the narrative. No one is buying their garbage any longer. The Deep state are desperate because the house of cards is collapsing under the weight of reality and the truth. France rejecting Macron. Russia taking out the neoNazi’s In Ukraine. The major battle is election fraud and the foreign interference . The facts and data are collected. The presentation is vital.
Side note example: The war going on in the schools for the minds of our children is becoming front and center. Yes, there are places where some parents and citizens are pushing back against the left, but how many places are not pushing at all? How many people are seeing the crushing those people are getting from government and the media and are opting out of the battle or are just adopting "wait and see"? How many children come home from school hating America and themselves? Hard to tell who's winning.
Dark to light. Openly grooming kids is not good optics. Taking down the whole corrupt temple on to their fuQing heads is not going to be smooth sailing. I posted a few days ago about Trump trapping the deselect J6 partisan which hunt. The law states Trump will get EQUAL TiME on the networks to refute the attacks. It is hours of prime time truth sessions. NCSWIC . Boomerang.
I truly DO hope Trump takes his equal time and slaps them silly - as you say, "Taking down the whole corrupt temple on to their fuQing heads..."
LOL, points total is irrelevant to a good discussion!
It does seem to me that what really marked the abolition of slavery in this country was the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, passed by Congress in 1865, and ratified at about the end of that year.
It seems to me that a Constitutional Amendment is more to be celebrated than an executive order.
Tyrant Abe didn't want that result. He wanted power and like many tyrants, he saw war as the method
to achieve power.
The people of the confederate states did not have any representation so the 13th
amendment was not approved by enough states to be ratified. The US has been a tyranny ever since 1860.
As Rand stated in her books, the most underrepresented minority is the single individual "man". The Bill of Rights protected "him". Every single individual possessed the same authority as the many others. It provided power to all, individually. Now, the power brokers that control the black vote as a collective, control the weak political leaders that rely on the vote support of sheer numbers. Does anyone out there in the Gulch know a single political character that is dedicated to their carbon core the adherence to the Bill of Rights?
As a matter of fact, I finally know why I am here at this moment, to be a Patriot!
I have removed myself from the bankrupt defacto corporation and come home to being a woman on the land and soil. We The People!
Tasa.americanstatenationals.org
Check out the flag America should be flying, the civil peacetime flag. The horizontal stripes signify we are at war.
I have been advised by someone I regard as an expert on the subject that the approach has contradictory assertions and bogus legal authority.
I want to see this split happen, and in such a way that they wind up with all the migrants meant to replace us.