Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America. However it has not always been commemorated as a major celebration like that of July 4th. But marking the end of the subjugation of a people is major. But we’re making it a bigger thing that it is. There are small gatherings here and there, nevertheless, it’s not major and collective. In fact, today I was speaking with an African American Young man who works at FedEx. I asked him if he knew that today was a federal holiday, and he replied, “no, I should have taken off then….” I then said yea, it’s Juneteenth. He responded saying “what’s that?” A lot of people don’t know the significance of today. I say to you, the reason for all this diluted celebration stems from a clash: marking the end of slavery in commemoration that is national and public would satisfy and vilify black people but clashed with those who are still harboring guilt feelings from their ancestors participation in slavery. Further, we make reference to the recent killing of 10 black people in Buffalo by an 18-year old while man who the New York Times described as being “entranced by white supremacist replacement theory ideology and this comes on the heels of Juneteenth. And I have said that we will never be able to deal with the issue of gun violence from bad logic or bad analysis. We start from a bad presumes assuming they guns kill people. But guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Guns are tools that people use to carry out their wildest or greatest intentions. We must take the right approach. People kill people and life is about people and how they relate. So the issue is therefore one of human nature. We must therefore take a multi-faceted approach. Example Jamaica has one of the most restrictive gun policy yet they have one of the highest crime rate. In fact they have a byproduct of their gun policy: gun-for-drug-trade with Haiti sometime ago where the criminals trade drugs for guns from Haiti. They have an underground market. The solution to dealing with gun crime is dealing with poverty and extremism which correlates with rising gun crime. Further, the social decay from the devaluing of people or their other from the way people are being socialized; the music and media sensationalize disrespect, theft, violence and the negative side of people. We become suspicious of the other. We discuss these and more in the episode. Thank you for supporting The Neoliberal Round. Share this show with your friends and follow us. Donate to us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. The Neoliberal Round is brought to you by The Neoliberal Corporation theneoliberal.com, serving the world today to solve tomorrow’s challenges. Renaldo C McKenzie is the creator and host of the podcast and is the author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty And Resistance and is a doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University. Renaldo graduated from the university of Pennsylvania and is currently working on his second and third book. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support