{"id":571470,"date":"2021-06-23T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571470"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:51:56","slug":"candace-owens-my-juneteenth-tweet-trended-for-three-days-heres-why-im-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-my-juneteenth-tweet-trended-for-three-days-heres-why-im-right\/","title":{"rendered":"CANDACE OWENS: My Juneteenth Tweet Trended For Three Days. Here\u2019s Why I\u2019m Right."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcandace-owens-my-juneteenth-tweet-trended-for-three-days-heres-why-im-right%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=571470&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Candace-Owens-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m pleased to report that I recently broke a personal record. I trended for the longest period that I have ever trended on Twitter in the entirety of my career. For 72 hours, \u201cCandace Owens\u201d was a top trend. The reason was because I sent out a tweet stating simply, \u201cJuneteenth is so lame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result: internet fireworks, people outraged. They couldn\u2019t believe that I would say that. Candace, don\u2019t you understand? How could you? How dare you? Candace, you are a pawn!<\/p>\n<p>I tweeted this for a lot of reasons, first and foremost, because I don\u2019t like things that are stupid. Things that don\u2019t make sense annoy me. If you\u2019re going to talk about celebrating the emancipation of slavery, weren\u2019t there some other more relevant dates that would make more sense?<\/p>\n<p>For example, it was on January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln declared \u201call persons held as slaves\u201din rebel states free through the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet on New Year\u2019s Day, we don\u2019t hear any chatter about the Emancipation Proclamation despite its massive historical significance.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was December 18th, 1865. That was the date that Congress officially proclaimed the outlawing of slavery throughout the entire country after the ratification of the 13th Amendment. If you\u2019re going to pick a date to celebrate the abolition of slavery, that seems like a more logical choice.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we\u2019re focusing on June 19th, 1865. Called \u201cJuneteenth,\u201d this is when a totally less significant event occurred. On this day, General Gordon Granger entered Texas and announced that Lincoln had freed the slaves \u2026 two and half years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s only been rather recent that many people have been talking about the anniversary of Granger\u2019s announcement in Texas. Over just the last few years, attempts to portray the day as highly significant have ratcheted up. Some of its proponents even say that it\u2019s black people\u2019s true Independence Day, that we shouldn\u2019t even celebrate Independence Day on July 4th because we didn\u2019t have <em>our<\/em> independence.<\/p>\n<p>There is no legitimate historical argument to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. But, of course, there is a political argument.<\/p>\n<p>It was the political argument that President Joe Biden offered when he made our newest federal holiday official. \u201cJuneteenth is a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t that make you want to celebrate? We\u2019re just going to look back and ponder the \u201cmoral stain and terrible toll\u201d of slavery. On Juneteenth, we can all get together and think about how awful America has been to black people.<\/p>\n<p>And that, my friends, is the point. It is always the point.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of stuff going on in black America today that we could be talking about. We could be talking about the inner cities. We could be talking about the crime. We could be talking about the fact that black children are not passing in school, that they\u2019re not learning math. In California, about <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/education\/2017\/05\/data-exclusive-75-of-black-california-boys-dont-meet-reading-standards\/\">75%<\/a> of black boys cannot pass a basic reading exam.<\/p>\n<p>But no. Instead, our good congressmen got together and said this is the most important thing we must do, we must give ourselves another day off and we must make sure it perpetuates a left-wing political argument.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that Juneteenth is just another effort to remind black Americans that we are somehow different. The point in all of this is to make black Americans feel that we are permanently disconnected from the American dream, that we should see ourselves as fundamentally separate from everybody else. The idea is to keep us eternally angry. The idea, of course, is perpetual revolution.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, Juneteenth, just like critical race theory and The New York Times\u2019 cynical and flawed \u201c1619 Project,\u201d is a part of a concerted effort from the Democrats to use black Americans as pawns. There\u2019s never going to be a fix. Whether it\u2019s reparations, whether it\u2019s a holiday. They\u2019re always going to say this is just the beginning, there\u2019s more work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we are constantly seeing every day in this country. It\u2019s all about race, or more precisely, it\u2019s all about the race game. And that game only empowers politicians.<\/p>\n<p>That explains why to kick off this first federal holiday of Juneteenth we witnessed the unveiling of a statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York. George Floyd, a career criminal who traumatized and terrorized black Americans while he was alive, is now the hero that has been immortalized on the first official national celebration of Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve gone from celebrating the unifying vision of Martin Luther King Jr. to the enshrining the criminal behavior of George Floyd. On that statue, by the way, there are several quotes, including, \u201cGeorge Floyd was hunted. Knees were used to prey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message to black Americans: Look around, be scared. This isn\u2019t your country, this isn\u2019t your land. Be angry. Go out, revolt \u2014 and be pawns to a sinister game being spun by Democrats in this country.<\/p>\n<p>So I want you all to know that after posting my comments on Twitter and trending for a personal best three days, I took the time to reflect on my choice of words. Having done that hard work amid all that outrage, I have something I\u2019d like to say:<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth is so lame.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment.\u00a0If you want to watch Candace\u2019s full discussion of Juneteenth, become a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/candace\"><em>Daily Wire member<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and tune in to the newest episode of her exclusive show, \u201cCandace.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m pleased to report that I recently broke a personal record. 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