Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin (D - 8th District) will be the headlining speaker at what is shaping up to be the biggest Juneteenth event in Montgomery County for Monday, June 19, 2023. The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition's Juneteenth Observance event will be held by the site of the desecrated Moses African Cemetery, next to 5214 River Road in Bethesda (behind the McDonald's), from 2:00 - 5:00 PM on Monday. Raskin will be the first U.S. Congressperson to personally visit the cemetery site. BACC representatives have sought Raskin's support for the cemetery cause, so his remarks on Monday will be heard with great interest.
Also appearing at the event will be Maryland Delegate Lorig Charkoudian (D - District 20), historian and author C.R. Gibbs, and Harvey Matthews, an official with Macedonian Baptist Church and a former resident of the lost African-American community that existed for about a century on River Road in Bethesda. The performing talents of Evergreen Productions and the Walt Whitman Drumline will be on display at this very special commemoration of Black history in Bethesda.
Jamie Raskin's father, Marcus Raskin, was cofounder of the IPS (Institute for Policy Studies) which was a communist organization. The apple usually does not fall far from the tree.
ReplyDeleteHe was also a professor of public policy at The George Washington University’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Couldn't have been that much of a threat. But, you in your knee jerk right wing fear decided not to mention that.
DeletePeople of a certain generation have a knee-jerk reaction that was burnished into them by propoganda. Communism itself, whether you agree with it or not, is not the boogey man. It's anyone who uses a populist movement from the far left or far right to try and gain authoritarian rule. The same people who are trying to paint Democrats as "communist" are falling very heavily for a right wing bent on subverting our democracy to an authoritarian state.
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DeleteTo which generation do you refer? I suggested Jamie Raskin was possibly communist due to the fact that his father was one. I'm 17 and attend Richard Montgomery HS. I did a research paper on Marcus Raskin and upon completion, it was hard not to come to the conclusion that he was a communist. I don't really have a political affiliation yet. There is a lot of information on Marcus Raskin on the internet. You can do your own research and come to your own conclusion. I guessing you do not know much, if anything, about him.
Well, your position sounds quite a lot like those espoused in the 1950s by the likes of followers of one Joseph McCarthy. Have you also studied him? I applaud your youthful curiosity into politics but your accusations suggest an antiquated view that anyone with progressive views about society is (1) a communist and (2) therefore evil and anti-american. You say you don't yet have a political affiliation, but your post suggests you object to Congressman Raskin's affiliation with Juneteenth celebrations as demonstrative of a communist ideology. To me, that comes across as someone whose primary influence is coming from racist feamongering that is probably also xenophobic. I would ask you to question yourself why your reaction to Congressman Raskin, a scholar, father, public servant, and cancer fighter, friend of minorities, needs to be maligned by you. Where are your as yet developed political affiliations headed?
DeleteScholarly SLAME of a weak attack, by a rookie research project at the HS level, perhaps done with AI assistance. Kids should not trespass into adult territory.
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