WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:08.199 Today is June nineteenth, or as is known in some communities, June teenth, 2 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:14.320 or now it's not just known as June teenth in some communities, now 3 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:21.960 it is the juneteenth National Independence Day. And I'm sorry, but we already 4 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:28.559 have an Independence Day that's July fourth. I think that's where people are having 5 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:36.640 issues with this new holiday of June teenth. It's not the fact that there 6 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:46.920 is an additional federal holiday. It's not the fact that this holiday has been 7 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.759 added to the calendar. Again, the black community has been celebrating it for 8 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.719 years. Maybe not as widespread in other parts of the country, but I 9 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.159 know in Texas, I believe it was first recognized in nineteen eighty, so 10 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:07.480 it's been something that some states have had this part of their agenda for a 11 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:15.359 long time. But it begs the question, why why are we creating this 12 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:21.480 and giving it the moniker of Independence Day when we already have an Independence day, 13 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.519 an Independence Day that is going to happen in just a couple of more 14 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:34.519 weeks. Again, this was all about politics. That's the only reason why 15 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.120 this gained federal status. And before you start to say, well, that's 16 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:45.359 just Joe Biden trying to buy votes, and it is. Let's not misunderstand 17 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.719 that he was by helping push this and getting Congress to push it through. 18 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.000 But let's not forget that Donald Trump made the promise to make this happen if 19 00:01:55.040 --> 00:02:01.319 he had been re elected. Anyway, it was all. It's all. 20 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:07.879 It still is a pandering game that is silly and its face, it's something 21 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:16.599 that we shouldn't have done in the first place. I don't understand why we 22 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.319 had to create one this close to the fourth of July. I understand the 23 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.000 significance of the day, and I understand and it was something that the black 24 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:31.879 community was celebrating. The African American community, it was theirs. Now you 25 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:38.039 make it a federal holiday. The liberals who loved to scream, you know, 26 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:46.000 racial appropriations is going to a cultural appropriation. I think it's the term 27 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:51.520 that they utilized there. Now they're going to be the ones doing that themselves, 28 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:55.400 because I guarantee you that white liberals everywhere are going to be celebrating Juneteenth 29 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:00.319 celebration. They're going to have their own little June tea in celebration. So 30 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:07.159 it's no longer the special little holiday just for the African American community. I'm 31 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.280 not sure that's what they wanted. I'm not sure that they wanted Juneteenth to 32 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:19.840 be something where some white guys running around holding up Juneteenth signs or having a 33 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:27.400 Juneteenth party or whatever it is crazy liberal white guilty people are going to be 34 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:34.879 doing on this day. It was a political pandering game. That's all it 35 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:40.800 ever was. That's all it was ever intended to be. And it's frustrating 36 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:47.199 because again, people should see through this type of stuff. I don't know 37 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:53.719 that they do. I don't know that they see through the nonsense that their 38 00:03:53.759 --> 00:04:00.039 politicians put forth for them. I have no problem with the junie teenth holiday. 39 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.520 I have no problem with those that want to celebrate it. I just 40 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:15.360 am questioning why we decided to turn it into a federal holiday, because again, 41 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.319 those holidays are supposed to be significant for all. This seemed to me 42 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:30.199 like it was a very special celebration for the African American community, and now 43 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:40.000 it has been culturally appropriated by liberal white people because they wanted you to vote 44 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:45.959 for them. I'm sure when it comes to the election time, you'll remember 45 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.879 they're the ones who got you a day off work. If your employer recognizes 46 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:56.040 this, because not all employers are going to recognize every federal holiday. Basically, 47 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.839 all it's done is may ensure the post office will be closed, the 48 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.839 banks'll be closed, which means if I need to go to the bank or 49 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:09.959 I need to go to the post office, now I'm inconvenienced. I'm gonna 50 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.000 have to go to work that day. I don't work for the federal government, 51 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.199 so I'll still be working the same way I would have been before they 52 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:27.680 did this political pandering. I also question how many people actually knew what June 53 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:33.399 teenth was before they started trying to prop this up as this major relevant holiday 54 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.879 that we need the federal government to recognize. I'm not sure many people did. 55 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.600 I'm not sure that there are that many folks out there that knew what 56 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:50.319 this date was, or its significance or anything to the such. The fact 57 00:05:50.360 --> 00:06:00.800 that it originated in Texas is because it's signified when the enforcement of the Emancipation 58 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:05.399 Proclamation came to be in the state of Texas. It's not even something that 59 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:13.759 should be recognized throughout the country because it doesn't hold a significance to the entire 60 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.839 country. But when Texas wanted to celebrate it and honor it because it happened 61 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:25.839 in Texas. That kind of makes sense, but on a national level it 62 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:31.240 doesn't because that day doesn't mean anything in other parts of the country. But 63 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.519 I guess it does now because again, we live in a time of revisionist 64 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:42.360 history. So now we'll rewrite it. Turned this into a massive holiday that 65 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.839 it never was. And the fact that it's so close to the fourth of 66 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:53.879 July, and the fact that they're giving it the same name as the fourth 67 00:06:53.879 --> 00:07:03.920 of July Independence Day, that leads to resentment from those who truly value the 68 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:14.600 real Independence Day on the fourth of July. It leads people to question, 69 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:19.519 are they going to try to replace our holiday with a new Independence day? 70 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:28.240 Will that happen again? If you had asked me that question fifteen twenty years 71 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.279 ago, what would have told you absolutely not, There's no way in hell 72 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:35.639 they'd ever try to touch Independence Day. But now I'm not so sure, 73 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:42.439 because we see them tearing down statues, we see them doing countless ridiculous things 74 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:53.720 to historical figures, to history itself. That I question, will one day 75 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:59.600 this be the only Independence day and the independence day that we have always celebrated, 76 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:07.160 we'll go away? I hope not. But nowadays I can't rule anything 77 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:13.519 out because we are in fact living in the dumbest timeline. This has been 78 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:20.040 morning coffee with the Right Side. I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and we're 79 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.519 a part of the Midnight Ride Network.