just cause we won't give them whatever it is that they want, but they can't identify; 

 

Last weekend, we celebrated our newest national holiday, with brawls and fisticuffs, and the rattle of gunfire. But Juneteenth is a lot more than that. It is an annual reminder that blacks don’t really see themselves as “Americans.”

Yes, there was violence, but that’s just what happens when you get enough young blacks together in one place. The largest Juneteenth celebration in South Carolina, in Finley Park in Charleston, was shut down before the headline musical groups could even take the stage.

In Baltimore, on the second day of the AFRAM festival that coincided with Juneteenth, so many young blacks attacked police and ran wild that the city declared a civil unrest zone, sent in the reserves, and even flew a helicopter low overhead to intimidate rioters.

In Kansas City, six people were shot and one man was killed at the Juneteenth party after security went home for the evening............more.........