Juneteenth Is An In-Organic Holiday For Black Americans

The holiday known as "Juneteenth" celebrates the day - June 19, 1865 in which the Union Troops made their way to Galveston Texas and notified the White slave master and the enslaved Black people who were his property per the laws of the time that such a violation of human rights was no longer permissible per the victory in war that the Union troops had won over the Confederates in the South.

Wikipedia entry for Juneteenth:

June 18 is the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves. On June 19, 1865, legend has it while standing on the balcony of Galveston’s Ashton Villa, Granger read the contents of “General Order No. 3”:

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

If there is a time where I would love to hear a "Black Conscious" person question the logic of saying "Thank you for ceasing your rape of us" it would be now.

It would be more logical for the Black community to thank:

• President Lincoln
• General Granger
• General Howard
• General Grant
• The Rest Of The Union Army

on this day, thanking them for affording this day of merriment than to celebrate "FREEDOM" without any connectivity to how it was actually accomplished.


The Need For Organic Competency Development In Our Consciousness


To some people this is me attacking yet another "Black institution".  Few people will question if in fact this is a "Black institution" in the first place.

Yet these same people accept the words of Fredrick Douglass in his speech: The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

Now more than ever our community needs to transform itself by adopting cultural anchor points that accentuate accomplishments that have come from movements that have two fundamental points:

1. The accomplishments are the fruit of 'directed outcomes' in which members of our community were focused upon a certain end and did the necessary intermediate steps which brought forth the accomplishment
2. That the accomplishment in question had direct and tangible benefit to our community in the "Community Cultural Consciousness & Competency Development Domain" instead of the "American Political Domain".

#2 is critically important.  Too often "advancements" for America are seen as advancements for the Black Community.  While indeed there is the occasional overlap - more often than not many campaign victory rallies take place in the context of a great depression within the Black community.

I am personally cutting off my donations to "Slave History" and institutions that are still fighting the "Civil Rights" movement, switching instead toward investments that will insure that June 19, 2085 will be a time when there are an abundance of accomplishments that can be identified as having originated from the "directed outcomes" of our community because the balance of us agreed that such a move was necessary.