It's Breathtaking!

 Think back the past couple years about the great number of statues of folks in American history that have been torn down because they might have rubbed shoulders with slaves or Indians or gays.

Did you celebrate Juneteenth? I forgot but here in Dublin Ohio the City Fathers had a big parade with speeches and all that jazz. If you don't know Juneteenth is a remembrance of the official elimination of slavery in the state of Texas in 1865. Egg on my face but I didn't know Dublin Ohio practiced slavery. I didn't know Ohio had slavery. Evidently they did because the whole damned state along with most every other of the 50 did the same. 

As a side note I was thinking about other official government mandated 'days'; Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Valentine Day, Christmas, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day and in Illinois Thaddeus Kosciesko Day. The one aspect of Juneteenth that separates it from the other is they celebrate a positive. This forced day, my opinion only, is a day of making people, white ones, feel badly about themselves.

Well, in New Orleans the mayor decided to create a statue for Juneteenth as a replacement for the ones torn down and so a person was commissioned to come up with an appropriate construction to remember the positives of Blacks across the land and here it is.

Do you know they symbolism behind the 'Afro pick'? I don't either unless we're commemorating the many contributions to American history by showing a reminder of the bro's standing around in da' Hood waiting for their next shooting victim to walk by. The mayor of New Orleans, a black chick, called the 'statue', and I quote, "Breathtaking."