The premise behind Juneteenth argues that 1776 is flawed and insufficient It ignores 9 out of 13 colonies that already abolished slavery by the time of the 1787 constitution. It ignores the brilliance of The Founders. Don’t fall for it.
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Don't fall for what?
It's obvious that the original Constitution was flawed, it allowed for slavery to exist. We fought a war over this. We had to have practically a second social war in th3 form of the Civil Rights Movement over this.
Black people were slaves, and while Juneteenth isn't a particular date of complete emancipation, it's been adopted as the day to celebrate Emancipation from slavery.
Who cares if 9 out of 13 colonies were slavery free? 4 of those were, and by the time of the Civil War, 11 states were ready to secede from the union and kill for the "right" to own people as property. Even with most of the Founders being really bright, they still allowed slavery. People can celebrate being freed from slavery.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
It ignores 9 out of 13 colonies that already abolished slavery
That’s not 13 out of 13, much less 34 out of 34, pinface.
It ignores the brilliance of The Founders.
The brilliance of allowing slavery into the Constitution?
Don’t fall for it.
I spent my entire life before Trump was elected appointed falling for the garbage that this country wasn’t akshully founded in the interests of upper-class white cishet male privilege. While that may have been progressive in the eighteenth century, it sure as hell ain't something to brag about in the twenty-first. If any silver lining came from Trump's being in office, it’s that it shifted a lot of us leftward enough to start seriously entertaining profound criticisms of capitalism and other hierarchy-forming social constructs on a fundamental level.
Yeah, no. Only Massachusetts had implemented complete abolition, three others had begun gradual abolition. Even by the 1860 census shows people (maybe less than 100) recorded as enslaved living north of the Mason Dixon Line.
Don’t fall for it.
“The premise behind Juneteenth argues that 1776 is flawed and insufficient”
In the Cornerstone Speech, the vice president of the Confederacy stated “Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated [slavery], as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact.”
flaws in the Constitution were directly used by The South to justify the Civil War.
so they could "…put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.”
so, no shit there were flaws. you don’t even have to be black to see them.
So, because 9 out of the 13 original colonies abolished slavery, we shouldn’t celebrate the end of slavery?
Uh…was he dropped on his head repeatedly when he was a baby, or something?
Maybe the Founding Fathers thought slavery was a dying institution and a rot which would be abolished soon enough.
Unfortunately, the mule-jenny made cotton cultivation way more profitable, thereby giving a new lease in life in slavery.
And it’s OK to admit people have shortcomings, just like Malcolm X did when he learnt his mentor slept with underage secretaries.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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