George Rebane
As most Americans know, today we are a nation fractured into tribes of various victimized and victimizer identity groups. This new social order started gelling in the national consciousness under Barack Obama, hardened during Trump’s contended presidency, and is on schedule to become a fully petrified structure of America’s society under the pro-Marxist policies of the Biden/Harris/Pelosi presidency.
A contributing policy for realizing that anti-American future will require a constant and heightened flow of reminders in the public news, entertainment, sports, and social media for which our lamestream is now experienced and fully prepared to support. To that end, and as of today, we have started adding national holidays to remind everyone of our history’s warts, each of which will be designed to maintain the sense of ongoing victimhood for every tribe to which an individual can claim membership and find meaning.
Biden signed into law ‘Juneteenth’, the newest federal holiday that will annually celebrate June 19th as the real day of freedom from slavery for the nation’s blacks. It will fly in the face of our historical July 4th Independence Day which has already been losing its luster in the minds of the various progressive cohorts.
And now we may look forward to other aggrieved groups with heightened consciousness, in the name of equity arising to remind us of their milestones and demand that more days be set aside for their particular observations, celebrations, and remembrance. I can see our Latino, Asian, women, LGTBQ, …, and European (aka white supremacist) contingencies, all demanding equal recognition and opportunity to remind us of America’s historical blights and blemishes, to provide frequent recounts throughout the year that the only thing exceptional about the United States is its provenance of evil.
So, we start with Juneteenth today to celebrate when the blacks of Galveston, Texas were told that they were no longer slaves on 19 June 1865.
Our Latinos can claim the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on 2 February 1848 that made Mexico cede most of today’s American west to the US. February 2nd would be a day of remembrance and mourning the beginning of an epoch during which Mexican-Americans and other Hispanics were relegated to second-class citizenship as newly minted Americans. (It would also serve to keep the fires of Reconquista burning.)
Asian-Americans will demand December 17th as their special day of recognition and liberation from second-class status, and a time to remind all of ongoing discrimination against Asians. On 17 December 1943 Congress passed the Magnuson Act which did away with all exclusion acts that primarily focused on denying Asians immigration rights, which began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Women of all shades, shapes, and biological origins will want to have August 18th be designated a federal holiday. For it was on 18 August 1920 that women’s suffrage ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. It will be a day of marches and speeches reminding us, not only of the past, but of the here and now when women still have to fight ‘glass ceilings’, unequal pay, and the right to be masters of their own bodies.
And of course, the LGTBQ tribe will want its annual place of pride in the federal sun. They can militate for September 21st as a national holiday, for it was on 21 September 1996 that DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) was passed by Congress and became effective. This started a period (1996-2020) during which SCOTUS passed five landmark rulings to the benefit of our LGBTQ group.
We can go on, but let’s just finish with a new national observance of the evils of European culture in America. Actually, this federal holiday will not be demanded by Americans of European descent. Instead, it will be established by a woke Congress as a day to recognize and never forget that white supremacy continues as the nation’s foremost threat and abiding enemy. It is the ever-present possibility of a white supremacist insurrection against which our government must always be prepared to defend with new laws, regulations, processes, procedures, and agencies. That day of national vigilance will receive an appropriate name like ‘Democracy Preservation Day’ or ‘Insurrection Day’, and will, of course, be celebrated on January 6th, during which we will be regaled and reminded by demogauges of all stripes of how close we came to ‘losing our democracy’ on 6 January 2021.
[Addendum] A reader sent me the most appropriate Juneteenth graphic shown below.
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