Have to admit, and might have to be the itchy butthole here, but I simply do not get Juneteenth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeh yeh folks in Galveston, Texas received news from Union soldiers in June of 1865 that \u2013 oh lookee here <\/em>\u2013 their labor could no longer be stolen for the sole benefit of \u2026 ahem \u2026 others<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mewonders if those folks even knew a war was going on, or if that news was kept secret as well. BUT, however, nevertheless, despite this \u2026 America continued to constitutionalize the torture of human beings for fun and profit for another six months or so after June 1985, until the Georgia ratified the 13th<\/sup> Amendment (Go, Georgia!!<\/em>) and the US officially outlawed its peculiar institution in December 1865. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Decemberteenth? Well, there\u2019s a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except of course as punishment for the commission of crime \u2026 oh-ho-ho loophole<\/em> more to come digress<\/p>\n\n\n\n And to give those old, dead white guys a significant amount of credit, they did a truly remarkable thing just in drafting the 13th, never mind getting it before the state legislators, and ratified, and added to the Constitution, considering the times of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfun fact: some argument (go internet!!<\/em>) indicates the term \u201cslave\u201d originates from \u201cslav,\u201d which describes the Slavic people of Middle Europe, who apparently were \u201cconquered\u201d from the Ukrainianism places and forced into \u201cslavery.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although that particular state of servitude exists from long before, because humans generally suck, its form was dependent upon the society practicing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Greco-Roman times (yehyeh<\/em>) if a person was a \u201cslave\u201d for a wealthy household, then a \u201cslave\u201d was a kind of status symbol, both in being one and having one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Same in ancient China and other parts of Asia. Hmmm \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n As well as parts of the Middle East, altho\u2019 Muslims tended to castrate the males \u2026 ewwwwowwww<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, another totally unfun fact: here in the States, slavery created wealth \u2026 easy to get rich when payroll is not a business expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comically (not really, more ironically) fratboy King Roophie Hawley twitted something along the lines of America is the place slavery died, or some such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Highly educated, totally stoopit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Early American Ishtains (\u2018cos that ain\u2019t Christian) used the Bible to justify slavery in the states \u2014 called it the Curse of Ham (should have been Canaan, if reading that right {Genesis 9:25<\/em>}) \u2014 and even enshrined the practice in the Constitution back in 1791 \u2026 see, to wit: Article 4, section 2, clause 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Which is proof they didn\u2019t know the Bible, or GOD. {Deuteronomy 23:15<\/em>} Pick and choose, you early espousers of democracy, liberty, and justice for all Which leads us to debt, and what is owed, and by whom, and to whom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Place Where Good Sense Goes to Die \/ the Crazy Woke Abyss of California (land of fruits and<\/em> nuts) is offering up cash the state doesn\u2019t have to give lump payments as reparations to the Ice Cream Social. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Truthfully? Methinks reparations, at least with that approach, is all wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Doesn\u2019t really fix the systemic problems and will simply be a boon to rim shops, beat installers, weave purveyors, and Best Buy (sell more big screens than Super Bowl Sunday). Thass ray-sis!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nah, methinks more long term would be more effective \u2026 the harm of America\u2019s peculiar institution lasted for over two centuries, so the remedy should extend just as long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How to do that? So glad you asked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mentioned somewhere around these parts that a tax exemption would work nicely \u2026 no capital gains tax, no income tax, maybe even no property tax, if a person can prove ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oops. Methinks the Horsemen will go on another night ride but thass ray-sis!!!<\/em><\/strong> Saw a bumper sticker: \u201cIf I\u2019da known, I\u2019da picked my own dang cotton.\u201d Honestly? Methinks that particular debt is just too big, too fraught, too expensive, to ever repay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After all, it wasn\u2019t just the US that profited, but the entire world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No tax on anything, anywhere? At least Haiti could get out from under. $21B could help with that. But maybe so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Would be interesting to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After all, we do live in interesting times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But I doubt mankind even has another 200 years \u2026 it was 105\u00b0 in Beijing, when the national average this time of year is typically under 80\u00b0, Texas is currently on fire, and one of those Arctic ice shelves is melting faster than the sciency types ever thought possible so methinks no real danger of actually providing a full remedy to the entire Ice Cream Social. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Which in itself is reason enough to try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have to admit, and might have to be the itchy butthole here, but I simply do not get Juneteenth. Yeh yeh folks in Galveston, Texas received news from Union soldiers in June of 1865 that \u2013 oh lookee here \u2013 their labor could no longer be stolen for the sole benefit of \u2026 ahem \u2026 … <\/p>\n
Hard to believe, what with how people talk, but perhaps gossip only travels so far \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe they rationalized that they weren\u2019t Hebrews, so GOD\u2019s Word didn\u2019t apply, and most definitely not in that context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(except you people, over there \u2026 we have a whole economy to consider). Anyhoo \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can\u2019t\/won\u2019t\/don\u2019t expect rational thought from inbred ignorance. Shouldn\u2019t raise the bar that high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Millions I’m sure would have preferred that you did but you ‘n yourn likely would have perished from skin cancer digress \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n