Juneteenth also serves as a warning. Millions of Americans want to go backwards.
There was something that happened recently that may not seem like it’s relevant to Juneteenth but it is. You’d be making a mistake to ignore it.
The far-right group Turning Point held its convention in Detroit. The optics of such a group meeting in a majority-Black city is interesting in itself but this meeting took on a special sort of racism. At one point, on the stage, several people unfurled a flag that read “White Boy Summer” and threw out hats with the same name.
That phrase started out as an innocuous one but has since been appropriated by white supremacists. Writes the Anti-Defamation League: "While ‘White Boy Summer’ was not initially intended to be hateful, white supremacists have adopted the slogan and leveraged it for their own purposes.”
Turning Point was once pseudo-mainstream. Now, the hoods are off. And not just with Turning Point. But with many corners of our country.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/mike-freeman/2024/06/19/juneteenth-charlie-kirk-detroit-donald-trump/74134112007/