by Carl Scott, faculty; first published in The Dissident Conservative
Well, my fellow Americans, I hope you had a day off for this year’s Juneteenth, and maybe even the good fortune to make a four-day weekend of it.
But can you tell me what you were celebrating?
Oh, you don’t quite know? Or, you say it’s about the end of slavery, but in a special way, that doesn’t so-much involve Abraham Lincoln?
Oh, and you also want to say it’s about black heritage, but again, in a unique way, one distinct from our celebrating the civil rights movement and its greatest leader, on MLK Day, and from what our school districts do with Black History Month?
Oh, and what’s this? We all must understand that some blacks will say Juneteenth is a capital-B Black Thing, which whites Won’t Understand, but, which all whites ought to celebrate anyhow?
Well, here’s something approaching the official explanation: