{"id":1951994,"date":"2023-06-20T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-when-moment-from-his-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:11:39","slug":"john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-when-moment-from-his-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-when-moment-from-his-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman&#8217;s Juneteenth message backfires due to a haunting past moment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-when-moment-from-his-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>John Fetterman&#8217;s Juneteenth Message Backfires When Moment from His Past Comes Back to Haunt Him<\/h2>\n<p>Democrat Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania used Monday\u2019s Juneteenth holiday to virtue-signal on race.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users, however, were quick to note that Fetterman\u2019s own record on race is far from spotless, at least by the standards of his fellow virtue-signalers.<\/p>\n<p>First, Fetterman predictably tweeted the sort of rubbish we have come to expect on such occasions: <strong>\u201cHappy Juneteenth! Today we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-scrubs-black-lives-matter-section-from-campaign-site\/\" title=\"John Fetterman Scrubs \"Black Lives Matter\" Section From Campaign Site\">celebrate emancipation + reflect<\/a> on the long shadow of systemic racism in America. PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate emancipation + reflect on the long shadow of systemic racism in America.<\/p>\n<p>PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sD4gaziCJZ\">pic.twitter.com\/sD4gaziCJZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenFettermanPA\/status\/1670793573128708098?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fetterman-struggles-short-speech-collapsed-bridge-fails-simple-words-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fetterman<\/a> has not always demonstrated such exquisite racial sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, while serving as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, Fetterman pulled a shotgun on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-newest-political-crush-is-privileged-harvard-grad-who-pointed-gun-at-unarmed-black-man\/\" title=\"Democrats\u2019 Newest Political Crush Is \u2018Privileged\u2019 Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man\">black jogger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.triblive.com\/news\/braddock-mayor-says-hes-justified-in-pulling-shotgun-after-hearing-noise-like-gunshots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TribLive<\/a> reported at the time that Mayor Fetterman believed he heard gunshots, followed the jogger in his truck, then pulled a shotgun, though Fetterman claimed that he never pointed the gun directly at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-was-acquitted-of-raping-a-young-teen-he-coached-now-hes-suing-the-city-and-police-department\/\" title=\"He Was Acquitted Of Raping A Young Teen He Coached. Now He\u2019s Suing The City And Police Department.\">innocent black man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Twitter users reminded Fetterman of the 2013 incident.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Guest, former Special Communications Adviser to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, tweeted a relevant old headline from the <em>Philadelphia<\/em> <em>Inquirer<\/em>: <strong>\u201cEverything to know about the 2013 John Fetterman jogger incident. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman pursued a man in 2013 and pulled a shotgun on him because he wrongly believed the Black jogger had been involved in a shooting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"da\">REMINDER: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hGjS6zo6oL\">pic.twitter.com\/hGjS6zo6oL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1670944460601958404?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another Twitter user noted the irony: <strong>\u201cRemember when [you] pulled a shotgun on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-spox-largest-threat-to-u-s-national-security-are-u-s-cops\/\" title=\"State Dept Spox: \u2018Largest Threat to U.S. National Security are U.S. Cops\u2019\">unarmed black man<\/a> in a clear case of racial profiling?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember when pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black man in a clear case of racial profiling?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Biden\u2019s chief document inspector  (@FightOn4America) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightOn4America\/status\/1670871160349683733?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>There are two related elements to this story of virtue-signaling hypocrisy.<\/h3>\n<p>First, there is the phony holiday.<\/p>\n<p>I hold a Ph.D. in history. In more than two decades of reading, writing, teaching and general engagement with the subject, I never once came across a reference to Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>Personal familiarity, of course, does not mean everything. Nor does flashing credentials. History is a vast subject. The volume of what I know about the past pales in comparison to the scope of my ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, if an event in U.S. history is worthy of elevation to the status of a national holiday, would it not stand to reason that a former professor of U.S. history at least should have heard of it?<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth might be a memorable occasion to the descendants of those who experienced slavery in one part of the country, but that is not why it became a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth was the ruling class\u2019s response to the death of George Floyd and the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/blm-collapses-left-standing-will-make-scam-clear-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLM<\/a> riots. It gave the elites an annual platform from which to proclaim their moral excellence while helping absolutely no one.<\/p>\n<p>Second, there is Fetterman\u2019s continued place of honor inside that same ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference between the 2013 Fetterman incident and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/george-zimmerman-sues-elizabeth-warren-pete-buttigieg-racism-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 death<\/a> of Ahmaud Arbery is that Fetterman\u2019s innocent black jogger survived the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Fetterman deserves criticism for the incident is irrelevant. In stopping an innocent black man at gunpoint, Fetterman acted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/claims-racial-profiling-chicago-walgreens-removes-two-aisles-customers-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial-profiling<\/a> vigilante. Had Fetterman helped seize an actual criminal, however, the then-mayor might have been hailed as a hero.<\/p>\n<p>For present purposes, what matters is that Fetterman retains his standing with the establishment, not because of his actual record on race, but because of his party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>The same holds true for President Joe Biden, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-joe-biden-reminisces-eating-lunch-segregationist-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">segregationist<\/a> history the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-when-moment-from-his-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him\/\" title=\"John Fetterman's Juneteenth message backfires due to a haunting past moment.\">establishment media dutifully ignores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the celebration of emancipation that should trouble us. That would be well worth celebrating on any one of a handful of other and more appropriate dates.<\/p>\n<p>What troubles us is the platform Juneteenth affords to preening hypocrites like Fetterman.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-moment-past-comes-back-haunt\/\">John Fetterman&#8217;s Juneteenth Message Backfires When Moment from His Past Comes Back to Haunt Him<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania faced criticism on Juneteenth for his race-related virtue signaling. Twitter users pointed out his flawed record on race, contrasting it with his fellow virtue signalers. Fetterman&#8217;s predictable tweet received backlash for its expected content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1951995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[7898,8856,26333,4475,28972,5776,5616],"class_list":["post-1951994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-backfires","tag-fettermans","tag-haunting","tag-john","tag-juneteenth","tag-message","tag-moment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}