5 things white people should hear on June 11

I like Juneteenth.

I do not mean to brag, but long before white America discovered the 159-year-old celebration of ending a constitutionally imposed, race-based system of forced labor and mental theft, I used to be six attendees on the annual Household of Faith June Bazaar. the temporarily undefeated champion of Biblical Pursuit (I’m pretty sure he’s within the Guinness Book of Records).

While preparing for my unprecedented championship run, I learned that the name “June 11” doesn’t appear within the Bible. The conversation between “June” and “XIX” was also not the work of my mother, who was famous for coming up with terrible names (HYPU, for instance). When I learned that June 11 was the day to rejoice the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, I could only imagine the words that flowed from the mouths of newly emancipated freedmen on that glorious day.

On June 1, these former slave owners received the suppressed, pure, unadulterated truth. Besides learning what they smell like after the rain and hearing the word “mother” paired with a swear word for sex for the primary time (I didn’t do any etymological research), these former slave masters probably learned a couple of things concerning the lazy, brutal, uncivilized country called America.

That’s what Juneteens means to me.

If white people really need to rejoice June 11, what higher strategy to rejoice America’s actual Independence Day than by hearing some uncomfortable truths? Instead of quoting Abraham Lincoln or wearing a dashiki manufactured from safety pins, why not follow some sage advice from the people who made America great the primary time?

To be clear, I’m not insinuating that Black people lied to you the remaining 364 days of this yr. But we know the way you’re. After experiencing nationwide pearl-clutching over subtle African American suggestions like civil rights, democracy, and paying people to work, we are inclined to keep our crazy ideas to ourselves. So perhaps on this June day, our Caucasian brothers will find a way to provide the best Juneteenth gift of all:

Listen to Black people.

Here are five things white people should hear on June 11.

5. The national anthem sucks.

Look, I do know there’s “The Star Spangled Banner” with an incredible Taylor Swift song about her ex-boyfriend and a Beatles song for his or her homie Jude. I just think we are able to do higher.

First of all, when was the last time you heard someone use the term “spangled”? I assumed starlight was some weird sexual fetish for astronomers until I learned that is how white people say “bewildered” (the one query I got fallacious in my near-perfect 1988 Bible Chase series). Not to say the proven fact that it’s a complete poem about slavery. You cannot be mad at Colin Kaepernick for not wanting to place in a lullaby for the slave master each time he went to work. And I won’t go into the violence a part of the song. I do know hip-hop is pretty brutal, but the present anthem doesn’t even hit. You cannot even dance to it!

Aside from the proven fact that Francis Scott Key is a one-hit wonder, consider the marketing opportunities you are missing out on. Think about it. You live in a rustic stuffed with people who’ve created the preferred and profitable music on your complete planet, represented by a song with no bass line. Royalties on the national anthem produced by Pharrell, written by Stevie Wonder and sung by Beyoncé could cancel the national debt.

Or, since all American music is “borrowed” from black artists, perhaps we could just claim eminent domain for an already existing song. Think how cool it will be to hear a complete baseball stadium singing “Not Like Us.” This is how soldiers are honored.

Every time I hear “Mustard on the beat ho” I feel a bit of patriotic.

4. Stop being so gentle.

Why, after several centuries of free work, are you so afraid to compete on equal terms?

I do know you think that affirmative motion is anti-white, but in case your people cannot make the most of privileges like head rights, slavery, Jim Crow, separate but equal, redlining, better-funded schools, older enrollments, higher wages, school- pipeline of white privilege, police restraint, judicial preferences, employer preferences, voting rights and control of each political, economic and social institution in America, then perhaps that is your culture.

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim role and pull itself up by the ropes you got at birth. If you stop admiring depraved, brutal savages like Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump, people should want to embrace you. After experiencing genocide, oppression, internment, exclusion, and demonization, you can’t blame Native Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, Muslims, Jews, Mexicans, or anyone else for not wanting you of their neighborhood.

Instead of taking responsibility on your actions, you blame everyone else. You didn’t own slaves, you just profited from the slave economy. You didn’t massacre the indigenous people, you only received free land after they were removed. You didn’t create segregated schools, you just used stolen tax dollars to teach yourself and create generational wealth. It’s never your fault.

So stop crying about oppression. We are uninterested in hearing you complain about nonsense like DEI, wokeness, CRT, trans bathrooms, the gay agenda, the war on Christianity, Black Lives Matter, the good substitute theory, black sirens, Mexican caravans, sharia law, stolen elections, jack-booted bandits, masks, vaccines and democracy.

If you do not like it, perhaps you should return to Europe.

(*11*)3. America is doing well.

Stop accusing every non-heterocentric, non-white and non-Christian group of hating America.

June

If black protesters, Muslims, immigrants, multiculturalists, and leftists are unpatriotic because they criticize their country, what about all of the white people who fought to make America great again? I’m not only talking about current MAGA Republicans; I mean the Confederate flag bearers who’re still committed to a lost cause. How can someone who loves his country break away from it? What concerning the racial terrorists during Reconstruction who used violence to remove the rights of their fellow Americans simply because they were black? When the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional, why didn’t you call out anti-American segregationists?

If you are going to make America great again, doesn’t that mean it isn’t great now?

I’m not saying I like or love my grandma or sweet potato pie. America is doing well. All it needs is a bit of spice – a couple of drops of justice and equality – and it can have something to be happy with. Even though I’ve never seen a purple mountain (except that one time when the Ques went to Colorado), I just like the 4 American spaceship boys and Broadway cocaine (I feel). America is gorgeous. To be clear, this doesn’t suggest I hate my country any greater than mentioning a leak in my roof doesn’t suggest I hate my house. As with my home, I understand that no country is ideal. But since I decide to live here, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it higher.

America is the highest fixer.

2. The Constitution isn’t that great.

Look, I’m not going to say the three-fifths clause or the fugitive slave clause. I’m talking concerning the remaining parts. But if we were to construct a rustic from scratch, there isn’t any way we’d use the identical structure. So I actually have a couple of fixes:

1. Democration: Even if we retained the Electoral College, why not let everyone vote for president after which count the votes? The one who gets probably the most votes will turn out to be president. Here’s one other idea: The the best to vote should be guaranteed within the Constitution.
2. Supreme Court: Besides emperors, kings and Messiah Lakers, who else can keep a job for all times? Two current Supreme Court justices are actually sufficiently old to recollect when our beloved banner only had 48 sequins. Some of them were educated partly under Jim Crow. If we won’t throw them out for selling their souls to the Nazis, how can we expect justice?
3. Equal Rights Amendment: I feel that explains itself.
4. Congress: the foundations governing Congress should be included within the Constitution, including the filibuster, presidential vote ratification, and judicial confirmation. How can there be no law governing the people who create it?

The one we now have now was cool in the times of muskets, slaves and horse-drawn carriages. But it’s 2024. It’s time.

1. Freedom free.

Because in case you regain your freedom, you owe us some compensation.

I’m just saying.