Juneteenth was celebrated yesterday as it was signed a federal holiday back in 2021.
And because of something celebrating people other than white Americans,
conservatives had so much to say about it.
So let's start with the tiny faced man himself, Charlie Kirk,
whose little picture on Twitter I can't even believe is not a photoshop to shrink
the size of his facial features, enlarge the size of his head.
Tweeted out you should be working today, not taking today off for
a CRT-inspired federal holiday that competes with July 4.
Although it's almost like that July 4 was not a day of freedom and
independence for black people living in America at that time.
I wonder why some people might wanna recognize a day that actually
celebrates the freedom of black people in this country.
One of those people who definitely doesn't want to celebrate that is
Candance Owens herself, who tweeted out, Juneteenth is still ghetto and
made up, hope everyone enjoys it.
Although I'll say she got quite a bit of backlash on Twitter for tweeting that out,
as did Charlie Kirk.
But with her logic.
If Juneteenth, which is the anniversary for
anyone who doesn't know it's the anniversary of the final enslaved persons
being freed in Texas after the civil war, aka Emancipation day.
If that's a made up holiday, every holiday
is a made up holiday, July 4 is a made up holiday.
And republican Senator Josh Hawleyy surprisingly attempted to be supportive of
Juneteenth question mark, but it really just proved how out of touch he is.
So let's pull up the tweet from Josh Hawley, he said,
today is a good day to remember Christianity is the faith,
and America is the place slavery came to die, which is so,so not true.
And Laura Bassett, writing for Jezebel, wanted to just
prove how untrue his sentiment was mind blowingly stupid.
So let's get into that, she wrote, in reality, the United States lagged decades
behind most other countries in the Western hemisphere in abolishing slavery.
England, Mexico, France, and
Denmark had all ended slavery before we adopted the 13th amendment in 1865.
And while it's unclear from a logical or even syntax perspective what, quote,
Christianity is the faith it's supposed to mean in that tweet.
Hawley also seems to be whiffing on the irony that Americans used
Christianity to justify slavery in the first place.
For white people, June 19th is a great day either to read and
amplify black voices and black history.
And consider the racist underpinnings of this nation, or
at least shut the f up if you're uninterested in doing the aforementioned.
Unfortunately, many white people, particularly republican white men,
find themselves incapable of any kind of self reflection on this day and
instead vomit their fragile defensive feelings on Maine.
Exhibit A, senator Josh Hawley, and this is all evident by this C-Span caller.
>> Hi, good morning.
I really appreciate your show, it certainly
enlightens me how democrats think I have not heard
one white democrat apologize for slavery.
I haven't heard any black person say
thank you to the over 300,000
white men who died to free those
black slaves, I'm astonished.
I realize we're focusing on slavery, but
my descendants are from Scotland and Ireland, we never own slaves.
>> Jesus age Christ, I'm begging other Irish Americans to stop making
us look bad, stop claiming that we're the original slaves, it's not true.
Servitude is not nearly the horrific monstrosity on civilization that
was chattel slavery, and
the impact of it has not been lasting like the impact of chattel slavery.
Shut the hell up, man, just shut the hell up.
I mean, Cenk, these people are so
racist that they're mad that they got a day off work.
To me, you got to be a professional racist to be angry about that.
>> I know, right?
Okay, so I'm a first generation immigrant when I came here when I was eight, so
my family certainly had nothing to do with slavery here in America.
That doesn't mean that I'm opposed to black people
celebrating liberation from slavery, why would it mean that?
Why do you go in that direction?
The only reason to go in that direction is if you're telling on yourself,
you caught feelings, like, yeah,
now they want a day off, just because they were liberated.
Why are you upset by that, what a weird thing to be upset about?
Are you upset that America was liberated, that Mexico was liberated, Canada?
Like all these countries, have different days of celebration and sometimes, yes,
for a minority within the country, why does that bother you?
It's weird that it bothers you.
All right, now let's break it down one by one, the comments.
So, Josh Hawley, where slavery came to die.
Well, there's actually some ironic truth to that,
because we were one of the last countries to stop doing slavery, so
it lasted until we were among the last to kill it off.
Right, England and Denmark and France and
Mexico had all ended slavery way before us.
No, we hung onto it, hung onto it all the way till its deathbed.
The only part that I agree with, even slightly, not in the framing,
not in how he said it is, look, the Union soldiers gave their lives and slavery,
that's great, that's why I love the Union.
You know the other name for the Union?
America, the other name for confederates, traders.
And by the way, Josh Hawley, who said that comment,
also voted in opposition to renaming military bases after confederate generals.
He thought these confederate generals that betrayed the country committed treason,
led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and all so
that they could keep slaves.
We should celebrate them by naming our American
military bases after these traitors.
I'm sure that Josh Hawley would like to do likewise for Osama bin Laden and
some other people and maybe Guerrini and others that have also attacked America.
Now we go to Candace Owens, it's a made up holiday.
Of course, Rayvana's, right?
All holidays are made up, Benny I wondered, wait,
when did they start celebrating these holidays?
So, for example, I have never seen Candace Owens or Charlie Kirk or
any of these folks question Father's Day.
Got news for your Father's Day, entirely made up, okay?
And not made up to celebrate fathers because, man,
their lead day of liberation for fathers.
No, that was made up to sell more cards and flowers and nonsense, okay?
It's an invention of American marketing firms, okay?
And by the way, it turns out the first holiday, Father's Day, was celebrated
in 1910, whereas Juneteenth was celebrated almost immediately after liberation.
So between 1865 and 1877 is when it began.
So it's older than Father's Day, but
I'm sure which just a couple of days ago was Father's Day, right?
Before June 10, I'm sure you'll find Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk so
mad about it, right?
No, they're paid to attack black people for a living and gay people and
others, but Candace is black, so she gets paid more to be a sellout.
Are you going to cry, Candace?
Are you going to cry about that?
I'm sure you got a very comfortable house to go cry in for being that sellout, but
that's her job, is to attack other black people and call them ghetto for saying,
hey, you know what?
Maybe it was a good thing that slavery ended, maybe we should celebrate
that a little bit, we didn't have freedom in 1776, we had it in 1865.
No, that's apparently ghetto, Candace, we all see you,
man, you think we don't see you?
And it's not working for the idiot billionaires funding Candace Owens,
she's not convincing any other black people to cheer on, like, yeah,
this damn holiday you're celebrating that into slavery.
What was wrong with it in the first place?
It's not working, nobody thinks that you're paying her for
just the you know what?
You're the actual the billionaires funding her, you're the suckers at the table,
she's totally ineffectual, all minorities laugh at her and
think she's a laughing stock sell out like embarrassment.
But you morons keep giving her money, go attack black people,
go attack their holidays, go attack everything about her, and
the number of voters she switched over is zero.
>> I can't even wrap my head around being mad about a day off work,
I guess if you're Charlie Kirk, though, you don't want to have to pay your
employees time off work, maybe that's where he's coming from.