"JUNETEENTH: What a Difference a YEAR Makes!!"

 Top: LAST year 's Facebook post I did on June 19th. 

Bottom: THIS year's.

What a difference a YEAR makes, eh??

YES, MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS CELEBRATING “JUNETEENTH” HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST YEAR (compare the two memes)!! Of course I still celebrate the end of slavery (top meme, from one year ago) BUT....the nationwide riots, looting, beatings of white people, crude conduct of many (not all) BLM supporters and idiotic calls to defund Police have led to the perspective I shared on Facebook YESTERDAY, in the BOTTOM meme.

I’m just sick of all the reminders of things I never did but am being blamed for!! In January, whites are reminded of racism THEY never committed, on Martin Luther King Day.

In February, it’s Black History MONTH.

In April, baseball fans like me have to hear about Jackie Robinson’s suffering over and over and over and OVER.

And I’m expected to embrace “Juneteenth,” in JUNE now?? A little hard to do having seen the CHAOS and CARNAGE that has happened in the last year, and all of the OTHER stuff I’ve had to listen to all of THIS year so far (oh, I forgot “Loving Day,” a week ago today....white people had to have a deluge of guilt dumped on them for that, ALSO.....even though most of us have NO problem with interracial marriage, and never did)!!

After seeing the riots last year (and I don’t care “WHY” they started), I no longer think “Juneteenth” can be a healing thing for blacks and whites. I see it now, rightly or wrongly, as another attempt by some to remind us of our past issues and to DIVIDE us, not UNITE.

And I know I’m not alone with these perspectives, I’m just the guy who actually SAYS what many (white AND black) people are saying and feeling!!