Juneteenth is this weekend, in case you were wondering. If you’re white, though, please don’t ask for an invitation to the cookout. At least that’s the request of Melina Abdullah, hip-hop scholar and professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles. If you’re white it should be Reparations Day, but until that day comes, don’t celebrate.
Attention white people…
Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout…#Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks.It should be #Reparations day for white folks.
— Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) June 13, 2022
Why would we want to go? 😅
— 🌿 (@AhComfy) June 14, 2022
June 19th is Father's Day. Will be at the Father's Day cookout, but thanks for asking.
— Conservative Social Distance (@TheLoweDown2) June 14, 2022
This ain't it. Consult your local Texan on proper Juneteenth observance.
— Trey Felder (@TbirdTr3y_10) June 14, 2022
I’m gonna cookout even harder now.
— ✌️🇺🇦🌻Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) June 14, 2022
Dear black people. Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout. If we know each other you’re already invited. Whatever day it is. Come on over. Maybe bring that covered dish your wife makes, that stuff is delicious! Otherwise grab a beer and a burger. It’s just a cookout.
— 🇺🇸 Ultra AmErican 🇺🇸 (@Flipper628) June 14, 2022
Thanks, but I've got plans to drink IPAs at a craft brewery that day.
— Narrative Slayer (@death2freedom) June 14, 2022
Irish need not apply. Lovely. 🤦🏾♀️
— 🍀 Sangria in 33 🍀 (@Sangria1992) June 14, 2022
Thanks but I’ll be at work.
— Jimbro (@jimbrothetruth) June 14, 2022
This isnt the flex you think it is
— • Billy • (@And_Still312) June 14, 2022
This ratio is your reparation
— ⚔️✍🏼 Woke Rasputin 🥃⚔️ 💎 (@RasputinWoke) June 14, 2022
That’s news to me, I’m smoking ribs this year.
— Eric The Red (@RWACPodcast) June 14, 2022
You seem nice.
— Colton Weeks 🍊🗣🗣 (@CMWeeks) June 14, 2022
Her Wikipedia entry is something else:
Melina Rachel Reimann was born on September 18, 1972, at East Oakland, Oakland, California, U.S. Her father, John Reimann, was “a union organizer and self-proclaimed Trotskyist.” Her mother is Linda Fowler Blackston and she was raised by Oji “Baba” Blackston. Her paternal grandfather was Günter Reimann (born Hans Steinicke), a German-Jewish Marxist economist and member of the Communist Party of Germany who opposed Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
The real question is .. which BLM mansion is hosting the cookout? 🤔
— Make L.A Great Again 🇺🇸 – RECALL GEORGE GASCON (@lalovestrump) June 14, 2022
Hey can I come to the cookout?
— Clown Prince (@yourethegame) June 15, 2022
I'm coming and the food had better be good!
— Randy (@RDChamp22) June 15, 2022
Literally nobody asked.
— UltraMAGA007 UK/USA (@rayfordsteele57) June 14, 2022
If you want to understand why so many college graduates these days are angry, hateful, bitter, anti-social jackwagons, consider that vile people like this get paid by taxpayers to "educate" them.
What an absolute embarrassment, @CalStateLA.
You should be ashamed.
— Bonk (@BonkPolitics) June 15, 2022
We guarantee they’re behind her 100 percent.
Related:
‘Don’t ask a Black person for anything’: The Root presents ‘The Caucasians’ Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth’ https://t.co/PtLMSpuq78
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 20, 2021
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