Our First Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday

Illinois Review ^ | June 18, AD 2021 | John F Di Leo

[x]

Kirby Smith and the Confederate Army in Texas didn't surrender until June 2nd, and Federal troops didn't arrive in Galveston until June 19th.

If you were a slave in Texas, you might have been "free" on January 1 two years before, but you wouldn't have been able to do anything with your theoretical freedom.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If we celebrate July 4, 1776, then, as the commemoration of the beginning of this struggle for liberty, it does make perfect sense that we should celebrate the culmination of the struggle as well.

No.

And I will not celebrate some made up holiday.

GDSG.

[greeneyes]

Then make it a state holiday.

If it’s gonna be Federal, it should be something to honor Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and all the Union Soldiers that helped to ensure it happened like maybe the end of the Civil War Day or something.

[depressed in 06]

Is there going to mail delivery on Monday?

[Carriage Hill]

You first.

[ifinnegan]

Our Rainbow-Flag Cartel Party are turning it from a Jubilee in to a communist struggle session.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Then there is this day...

On July 4, 1827—which was then called Emancipation Day by the local black population—all of the city’s African American churches held prayer and thanksgiving services. William Hamilton, trustee of African Zion Church, declared “no more shall the accursed name of slave be attached to us; no more shall Negro and slave be synonymous.”

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/the-anti-abolition-riots-1834/

[keving]

Shouldn’t be June Nine Teeth? I’m going to Cracker Barrel to figure that out!

[Dilbert San Diego]

In our politically correct World Republicans were afraid to vote against the Juneteenth bill.

They were afraid of being crucified as racist and bigoted by the New York Times Washington Post etcetera.

Of course it makes us wonder, why are many on our side, worried about what the new York times and MSNBC will say about them?

[Svartalfiar]

But an equally strong case could also be made against it, as the Emancipation Proclamation did not free every slave, but rather, could only bind the states that sided with the Union.

And yet, Lincoln didn't force the freeing of any of the slaves in the Union States...

[depressed in 06]

I got mail today.