[narratives1]

This attitude is my problem with this day. If this is a day celebrating the nation and how we overcame the evil of slavery to create something better, emancipating millions of fellow Americans, I’m for it.

If this is a federal holiday to “center blackness” and “put our attention on black folk”, then that’s state sanctioned racial factionalism and perpetuates an arrogant race centrism that’s already all too prevalent among some segments of black Americans. That I will not celebrate.

We should be creating a society that celebrates Americans, regardless of their skin color. Emancipation day is a great thing, over half a million Americans (many white) died to correct an evil that denied freedom to millions of our fellow Americans - it’s a tragedy so many had to die, but their sacrifice made a better country for all of us.

[blackqueeriroh]

Yeah, the problem is that we don’t have a society like that and the only way white people know how to do that is to erase the contributions of Black people AFTER they’ve stolen everything from us and literally treated us as property. So excuse me if we think it’s okay to center Blackness for a month and a day when white folks (which is what you are even if you aren’t) are centered the rest of the year.