Juneteenth Is Now A Federal Holiday, Deal With It

Juneteenth is a holiday celebrating the late learning of slave’s freedom, post emancipation. in Texas 1865, they were gaslit, technically free and could leave the plantations but, didn’t believe it until they started seeing other Black people frolicking around without duress. Growing up, it only stopped being celebrated when we moved from regions that didn’t have large Texan transplants. That was THE BBQ picnic day.

We never stopped celebrating when we moved but, I remember explicitly being teased as a kid for discussing it and my parents making me stay home for that, veterans day, and the entire week for Thanksgiving. All “dates” connected to pre-generational citizenship in America (and our family) history.

Around 2017, it started being a thing during the diaspora wars and a lot of people started getting offended at other nationalities using it as a way to have a party. Well now it’s a federal holiday and people who avoided the holiday for decades are now in their feelings because others get to celebrate it. Not celebrating is actually a bigger disrespect but that’s the next conversation.

Why It Wasn’t Acknowledged

For the people now in their feelings, seeing non Black, immigrants, and African’s celebrating, they have to ask themselves why they didn’t know about the holiday before. The reality, when I was teased for celebrating it, instead of the proverbial teasing of being an “African Booty Scratcher” I was called a “cotton picker” and colonized for the acknowledgement for removing Black people”s ROYAL lineage from Africa. And I’m like damn, I just wanted some BBQ. Fast-forward, now Africans ain’t shit for celebrating Juneteenth but pro-lineage groups get to appropriate African culture for confidence, got it.

Pan Africanism was THE identify for Black pride in America, post emancipation. So if you were Black, there was an automatic affiliation with King this, Queen that, red, black and the green and the pride of not coming from slaves but kings. Once that mindset spread, it was hard to even discuss anything slavery related in a healing light. And for many Pan africanist, it was the Cardinal sin, as much as having a White Jesus in the house to celebrate being American. Especially with the notion of being stolen from the same Africa they’re complaining about today.

King Shit, Meant Free Shit

For Pan Africanist, it started a disgusting trend of feeling the need to not have to pay for services. Coming from Africa, they felt Royalty meant they were exempt from petty shit like, paying. Despite Juneteenth highlting the real justification for restitution. The point of slavery was the US being provided pre-inflation billions of country building work with no compensation. Many of the people who talk all this Black American lineage BS, became the same one’s who rarely paid other Black people for work, the same work they’d ironically pay Whites and Mexicans for.

Suddenly, being a King or a Moor, or a Hebrew meant, you’re Black ass was beneath them, and therefore they didn’t feel they needed to pay for things every other race was paid for, in America. If you were from the South, or dark skinned, believed in God, even had a look that hinted as having “Indian in your family,” there was a sense of ownership of that brand of Black. That those who identified as that, were to give others free access and have lack of personal ownership.

So it’s ironic now that when “reparations” started coming up, the same people who expected free work from other Black Americans, now want to police Americaness for access to this imaginary revenue, tethered to an identity they denounced decades ago. That when a agenda arises, it’s a requirement to simply obey.

Juneteenth Is The REAL Workers Holiday

Screw the Chavez Day, that recently turned into immigrant “worker’s day” and that Nazi ass flag they push. Screw May Day for White immigrants, harassing Black Americans through subversive Socialism, imported in the 1900s when they couldn’t overthrow their own government.

Despite all the BS, the only real American workers holiday is Juneteenth, and it’s something everyone needs to acknowledge, celebrate and respect. It is a day that made the US abide by a legal requirement to pay people for work. A day that was put on the books before other countries, primarily White immigrants came and decided American needed to try softer side of East Germany.

And if you’re Black expecting other Black people to do thousands of dollars of work for free, then your a slave apologist. You also shouldn’t be in your feelings that people in America are celebrating Juneteenth, like Cinco De Mayo, St. Patrick’s Day or any holiday used to celebrate hot weather, BBQ, and the doing the bustop.

It’s America’s Economic History

Juneteenth is a day we always celebrated for getting through it. A day that reminds us, when we somehow still don’t get paid, while others enjoy the fruits of America’s value. Getting through it, when we couldn’t have a Bank account, access a business license, or a loan to become legally enterprising. When “it” wouldn’t allow us to be visable, it’s was our own mental reset.

So to hear the Pan africanist suddenly “own” a holiday they rejected, or a Black Neo-conservative feel the day is all the sudden, “woke,” if you’re so proud to be American, then you would’ve already understood, y’all’s first “tether” were the same White people who came after British restitution. It existed before Woke was bastardized, by Socialist White immigrant-decendants that made themselves the “only” change for America.

Black American history is over 300 years old. That’s longer than most flags lasted. So fck ya feelings. The facts are, you’d already understand paying for Black American services, when the job is done is a requirement to NOT being a tether. Besides, you can’t get reparations from the same Whites that don’t have the authority to access the gold in Fort Knox.