Of Months and Days…Part 1

By Patrick Hall

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” Arnold Toynbee

There were just a few special days or holidays back then.  As a child of the 1950s, i.e., a baby boomer, my older 10 siblings and I, whom I refer to as the '30s and '40s kids, defined our childhood around such events as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, and July 4th.  Those were pretty much the national holidays that brought us together, first and foremost, as Americans.  Of course, there were exceptions, such as Labor Day, which was somewhat of a disappointment for us kids. It signaled the beginning of the school year, and as a Roman-Catholic, it meant returning to the pedagogic tyranny of the Catholic Nuns. Those ladies were tough, but effective, if not brutal at times. But I digress.

Yet something isn’t quite right today.  At the time of this writing, June, as you all know, was Pride Month. It recognizes the accomplishments, struggles, and specific aspects pertinent to the LGBTQ+ community. Additionally, during June, the celebration of Juneteenth has gained traction as a major holiday throughout the United States. It commemorates, among other things, the end of slavery in the United States. It reminds the black community of where they came from and what they have accomplished as Americans.

However, it conspicuously leaves out the hundreds of thousands of whites who died in the conflict known as the American Civil War. But don’t get me wrong! There is “or was” a value of highlighting this herculean struggle to end chattel slavery.  But far too many blacks have or are using Juneteenth more in the way of a pejorative, or cudgel with the underlying subtext of calling attention to look how bad America was (and still is in the thinking of far too many of the nation's race hustlers and organization like the NAACP, the National Urban League, Nation of Islam as well as the Rev Al Sharpton’s Nation Action Network (NAN). Their goal is to keep “racism” alive within the defamatory nomenclature surrounding the use of terms such as micro-racism, apartheid mentality, implicit race bias, neo-segregation, systemic racism, concurrent with racial propagandists, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black History and Social Science academics, who were (and are) the movers and shakers behind movements like Black Lives Matter and the suicidal idiocy underpinning Defund the Police idealogues.  

As a sidebar, during the height of the Black-lives-Matter movement following the deaths of George Floyd and Michael Brown, financial support of the keep-racism-alive efforts was partially funded by Byte Dance and Huawei, two tech giants heavily associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). You might ask, what in hell are two Chinese Tech companies involved with the socio-cultural dynamics of race relationships here in the United States? Many other NGOs and left-of-center PACs with ties to countries and individuals, such as the George Soros Foundation, funnel money not only to BLM but also to the NAACP, Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN), as well as a plethora of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) faculty and student organizations.  This funding is anything but benign.   The CCP and other bad actors, such as Putin’s KGB and the Muslim Brotherhood, don’t have our best interests as a Republic. Their intentions and goals are to divide us. Nothing more! What is even more tragic is that the Congressional Black Caucus, which I view as “the Conclave of the Severely Miseducated,” doesn’t appear to be cognizant of these foreign funding sources.

Once more, most Juneteenth and Black History Month activities serve as a cudgel that ignores the fact that hundreds of thousands of people (mostly white) died in our nation's fight to end slavery.  This has taken a backseat to the easier narrative, which feeds on the story, thesis, or cultural catechism that America is still a racist nation.  This is part of a greater secular dogma. It is a socio-historical polemic conspicuously taught in our school by the multiculturalist crowd, DEI catechumenates within the Liberal Progressive intelligentsia that dominate our institutions of higher learning. Most, if not all, Teacher Education Programs at our colleges and universities are governed by a “left-more left-most left” socio-political enculturation or pedagogy.   They reflexively blame the world's problems on Western man, the United States, and White People.  That ethos exists, for the most part, in many cultural and political celebrations, systemic among my baby-boomer cohort. It is the ubiquitous philosophy/cult of “anti-Westernism” injected into the cultural-political bloodline of the United States since the 1960s and probably before!

Over the last five decades, it has become fashionable, if not an established tradition, to dedicate a month or day to groups or causes that were once marginalized in America’s socio-historical experience. These days, or month-long celebrations have been working to quietly tear, undermine, and fracture the cultural and political cohesiveness of what is America.  Gay Pride Month, Black History Month, Native American Heritage Month, Women's History Month, Latino Heritage Day/Month, the World Day of Social Justice, Celebrate Diversity Month, National Muslim American Heritage Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, along with a host of other special holiday celebrations, don’t serve us well as “Americans.”  It is Factionalism, all dressed up with a smiling face. It’s the cultural left's most effective business model.