Happy Juneteenth!--a Footnote

Happy Juneteenth!

a Footnote

Eric Paul Nolte

I celebrate the end of slavery in the US, but Juneteenth is now being tied to critical race theory, which is as racist as the KKK.

Last year I posted a link to Chris Campbell's article on celebrating Juneteenth, which I am reposting on Facebook. While I continue to believe that we should celebrate the end of slavery in America (and remember that slavery was practiced everywhere in the world throughout human history!), and while I am happy to have this day named as a holiday, I am troubled to hear some voices who are using this occasion to advocate critical race theory.

By the philosophy of critical race theory, whites are inherently oppressors, and blacks are inherently victims. The essence of the matter is the color of one's skin, which is obviously racist!

Critical race theory derives from critical theory, which arose with the German Frankfurt school, wherein thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno came to the US after WW-II and devised strategies for promoting outright Marxism for the purpose of dismantling capitalism.

Racism is evil, outright evil. It is not the only evil. Moreover, racism is clearly insane, given that all of our ancient ancestors came out of Africa. Therefore we are all essentially the same species! The significance of the color of your skin, metaphysically and morally speaking, is equivalent to the color of your eyes.

Celebrate the end of slavery! Happy Juneteenth! And utterly reject critical race theory!

E P N

2021.0619

(.0901, "eyes"

instead of "teeth.")