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re: Spurs rookie Lonnie Walker: ‘Will never celebrate 4th of July. Know your history’
Posted on 7/5/18 at 4:04 pm to FieldMink
Posted on 7/5/18 at 4:04 pm to FieldMink
It just seems like new generations of people who deal with prejudice in increasingly isolated instances are nonetheless focusing on injustice and letting it color their entire worldview.
I find it hard to judge people of a certain time period, like John Lewis (who I think is race-obsessed and a bad congressman), because he has every reason to see the world through the prism of injustice, even if that leads to some irrational positions.
Seeing 25 year olds do it is just awful, IMO. Obviously I don't object to Juneteenth, but black Americans are Americans, and the 4th celebrates America (including them).
I find it hard to judge people of a certain time period, like John Lewis (who I think is race-obsessed and a bad congressman), because he has every reason to see the world through the prism of injustice, even if that leads to some irrational positions.
Seeing 25 year olds do it is just awful, IMO. Obviously I don't object to Juneteenth, but black Americans are Americans, and the 4th celebrates America (including them).
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Posted on 7/5/18 at 4:10 pm to Pettifogger
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Seeing 25 year olds do it is just awful, IMO. Obviously I don't object to Juneteenth, but black Americans are Americans, and the 4th celebrates America (including them).
That is why I celebrate the 4th. I am American, 100%. Just as much as anyone else here.
I just don't want to get to a point where we remember all the good things and simply forget all the bad. I want everything to be remembered for what it truly was. Not to place blame or to make anyone feel guilty. But I feel it is important to not overly romanticize things.
Posted on 7/5/18 at 4:24 pm to Pettifogger
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Obviously I don't object to Juneteenth, but black Americans are Americans, and the 4th celebrates America (including them).
I agree with you. It's just a manner of looking at it from a black person's perspective as well. In one way its like being forced to the party and having to endure this and that for years until it was "okay" to be at the party. And even then, being sent back "home" after X amount of years to a culture and a country you know nothing about.
On the other hand, one way i see it, its celebrating the birth of this nation. One that is better than the others throughout this world with liberties that other people and countries do not have.
Of course i can only speak from my history and what i know and the time i live in today. Some will hold the past over their head and carry it to the future and into anything and everything. But i believe its best to at least know "your" whys and whens in history and take from it what you can.
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