On July 5th, 1852, almost 13 years before slavery was completely abolished in this country, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech at an Independence Day celebration, pointing out the hypocrisy in the holiday and in the Founding Fathers’ ideals. OK, so he didn’t exactly make the speech on July 4th, but he was shitting on July 4th up and down the speech, so we celebrating the speech today, gawd dammit....
Slavery
I will never forgive this country’s suppression of black bodies, black souls and black minds. Never. Every year, Juneteenth reminds me to never forgive y’all. To celebrate the end of something so horrific and unimaginable. Is that really a celebration? Or is it relief? Relief that black bodies are no longer forced to legally be considered chattel. Relief that black souls are no longer forced to be driven out...
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a lying mf. But this has been well established. And this lying mf also seems to be an ignorant mf, at least when it comes to U.S. History. Now, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, so if he is ignorant, then the mf is willfully ignorant, because those two programs are worth at least 300K, and I find it hard...
