What Should We Think About on Juneteenth?

Before I get into my comments about what Juneteenth means to me, I just want to remind my readers that after Trump cancelled a campaign rally that he was going to hold in Tulsa on Juneteenth in 2020, he had the fucking nerve to say that he made Juneteenth famous, whereas nobody knew about the holiday until he came along.

This piece of shit got 8% of the African American vote in 2016, again got 8% in 2020, so even if the Fake News media wants to continue taking him seriously, at least he’s not fooling many Americans who happen to belong to the black race.

I happen to think that Juneteenth should be celebrated on May 17, because that was the date in 1954 that the Supreme Court announced its Brown v. Board decision, the event which gave the African American population in this country a public presence they never experienced before.

I was born and raised in Washington, D.C.; my parents having moved down from New York when my father got a job with the government program (run by General Hap Arnold) to map the transition from a peacetime to a wartime economy. The group worked in the old Post Office building which later became the Trump International Hotel. Dad once told me that when he worked there, the roof leaked.

Anyway, back to Brown v. Board.