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| | [[https://youtu.be/lX5NixHpypQ?t=474|Multnomah County Board of Commissioners 27th June 7:54]]||| Board should use the holiday on 4th of July to convene, instead of vacating, and should collectively read and critically discuss [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence_(Dunlap_Broadside)|US Declaration Independence]], this 4th of July. Frederick Douglass called the declaration "the ringbolt of your nation's destiny" and urged Americans to be true to its "saving principles", while asking them [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_to_the_Slave_Is_the_Fourth_of_July%3F/Annotated|What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?]]. To that end, we should also carefully consider the denunciations of the slave trade found in [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/%22Original_Rough_Draught%22_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence|Jefferson's original rough draft]]. MultCo Board should discontinue the firework show over the river, and instead convene scholars and community leaders to have a series of public readings, symposia, and critical discussions. Encourage the organizers of the Waterfront Blues festival to move it to Juneteenth weekend, and call it the "rhythm and blues festival". [Juneteenth would thus be the culmination of the previous year's secular holiday cycle which begins 4th of July, continues through Constitution day and Memorial day.]| | | [[https://youtu.be/lX5NixHpypQ?t=474|Multnomah County Board of Commissioners 27th June 7:54]]||| On Tommorrow's Independenace day, the 4th of July, The Board should not use the holiday to vacate, but instead convene and collectively read and critically discuss [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence_(Dunlap_Broadside)|US Declaration Independence]], this 4th of July. Frederick Douglass called the declaration "the ringbolt of your nation's destiny" and urged Americans to be true to its "saving principles", while asking them [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_to_the_Slave_Is_the_Fourth_of_July%3F/Annotated|What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?]]. To that end, we should also carefully consider the denunciations of the slave trade found in [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/%22Original_Rough_Draught%22_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence|Jefferson's original rough draft]]. MultCo Board should discontinue the firework show over the river, and instead convene scholars and community leaders to have a series of public readings, symposia, and critical discussions. Encourage the organizers of the Waterfront Blues festival to move it to Juneteenth weekend, and call it the "rhythm and blues festival". [Juneteenth would thus be the culmination of the previous year's secular holiday cycle which begins 4th of July, continues through Constitution day and Memorial day.]| |
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| Public libraries should feature these documents at this time of year; to neglect this, as they have done, is an abandonment of their educational mission, a neglect of fiduciary duty to the public and of official duty-to-care. Perhaps if there is no room among the dozen or more feature displays currently at the central library, they librarians could put some of these foundational texts of our democratic-republic on the display for Juneteenth, which is still present several weeks after the fact. (I don't have a problem with that, per se, but I'm surely not the only would who would like some more historical context given to this Juneteenth season now commemorated by our "intelligentsia" in lieu of, instead of alongside, Independance day.) | Public libraries should feature these documents on display at this time of year; to neglect this, as they have done, is an abandonment of their educational mission, a neglect of fiduciary duty to the public and of official duty-to-care. Perhaps if there is no room among the dozen or more feature displays currently at the central library, they librarians could put some of these foundational texts of our democratic-republic on the display for Juneteenth, which is still present several weeks after the fact. (I don't have a problem with that, per se, but I'm surely not the only would who would like some more historical context given to this Juneteenth season now commemorated by our "intelligentsia" in lieu of, instead of alongside, Independance day.) |
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| The white bourgeois liberals and assimilated others who hold authority in these bureaus and oversight roles, should also consider whether the fetishization of black culture is truly effective as a way of avoiding moral responsibility and/or atoning for ancestral guilt, given their own privelege and the allegedly oppressive means whereby it was obtained. In either case, They should stop drowning out all efforts at critical thinking with a flood of food, drink, spectacle, and mostly meaningless entertainment: this is somewhat unfair to the children and to future generations. | The white bourgeois liberals and assimilated others who hold authority in these bureaus and oversight roles, should also consider whether the fetishization of black culture is truly effective as a way of avoiding moral responsibility and/or atoning for ancestral guilt, given their own privelege and the allegedly oppressive means whereby it was obtained. In either case, They should stop drowning out all efforts at critical thinking with a flood of food, drink, spectacle, and mostly meaningless entertainment: this is somewhat unfair to the children and to future generations. |