Juneteenth “Common Sense” Lesson Backfires After Resident Demands Parade Canceled for Traffic Snarls
Oh, for crying out loud. I’m reading this local group post and my blood is boiling. Some guy is actually demanding we cancel the Juneteenth parade because his commute to the grocery store was delayed by 12 minutes. TWELVE MINUTES. This is the same crowd that will sit in a two-hour traffic jam for a high school football game and call it "community spirit." But the moment a day celebrating freedom from slavery inconveniences their precious errand run, it’s suddenly a crisis of "common sense."
He literally said, "Can we just celebrate on a Tuesday morning when nobody’s driving? Why does it have to block the main road?" Yeah, because the history of emancipation is so much better when it’s hidden away from public view. Common sense says if you want to avoid traffic, check the town calendar. Common sense also says if you’re that pressed for time, the bakery isn't going to run out of day-old bread. But I guess common sense doesn't apply when you’re just looking for an excuse to complain about something that celebrates history you clearly don’t want to acknowledge. The real traffic jam is the entitlement on this page.