Interesting discourse, but he does repeat the incorrect claim that the first slave owner was black.
“2) On Juneteenth we want white people to read, study Black history, Black poets, Black leaders, Black achievements.”
I read of the number of black on black murders every year and wondered why none of the alleged “Civil Rights” groups or almost none of other the leaders in the black communities ignore this.
wasn’t one of the 1st slave owners here black?
One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War.
I can't celebrate it because I don't know what it is.
I worked all day on Monday.
Something I’ve been toying with for a few weeks while I awaited a university history professor friend to fact-check me. “A little short on detail, but the details are correct” he said.
I trained for a time as an intel analyst (98C) couldn’t get a clearance (long story), but some elements of data gathering and correlation align with my medical training so it wasn’t time wasted.
here goes:
Juneteenth
400 years of slavery.
We hear this lie often from the revisionist history groups like BLM, Black Panthers, 1619 project, and it’s never challenged. Neither are the facts of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation or its application.
First, “America” was a British colony until 1783, a loose collection of “states” until the Constitution was ratified.
Controlled by King George, III England sent petty (and worse) criminals as slaves to the colonies by “Transport” (sold to ship’s captains, resold in slave markets in the Caribbean as “indentured servants” but sold, nonetheless), “impressed” colonial subjects into military service (said enslavement continued until the war of 1812 and was revived by President Lincoln), and bought slaves from African tribes and muslim slavers.
His Royalist troops surrendered to Geo. Washington’s forces in 1783, our Constitution signed 1788 (ratified in 1791), THEN we became The United States of America, with a President and everything.
As much as Thomas Jefferson and others wanted to include his majesty’s policies on slavery as one of the reasons for separation in our Declaration of Independence, the vetoes of Georgia and South Carolina against this statement forced it out (the Declaration had to be UNANIMOUS).
So true “American” enslavement of Africans ONLY lasted for 74 or 77 years. June 21, 1788 (or 1791) until Juneteenth 1865 (really December’65).
Lincoln’s prima facie unconstitutional Emancipation Proclamation Executive Order of 1863, only “freed” our enemies’ (the CSA’s) slaves while slaves in Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Texas kept on totin’ barges and lifting bales and munitions for the Union Forces at train depots and shipping ports for several more years.
Lincoln freed no one with his unconstitutional taking (violating the 4th Amendment- SCOTUS had ruled slaves property in Dred Scott vs. Sandford in 1858 which was stare decisis until the 13th Amendment passed, DECEMBER 18, 1865 and proclaimed on Dec. 21.
Texans, Missourians, Delaware, Maryland STILL owned slaves, LEGALLY. From Juneteenth until that Amendment was passed and proclaimed.
Celebrating Juneteenth is rewriting history. And reparations for slavery? You have to start with the lineal descendants of the transportees and the United Kingdom first, Transport went on from Jamestown on to the shot heard ‘round the world.
I am not totally clear on what it is, let alone give a damn.
Something to do with negros, like that fake kwansee thing I gather.
We have one Independence Day and that’s July 4th. Anything else is pretend.
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I like Officer Tatum.
Re Juneteenth it was a grass roots organic American celebration that was called a jubilee. Nothing at all was wrong with it.
Of course it is now usurped and twisted.
Good video.
A better event to celebrate is the passage of the 13th Amendment which ended slavery everywhere, even Joe Biden’s state of Delaware. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution may be the ultimate civil rights act, though it does not seem to be recognized as such. My guess is that Democrats opposed its passage.
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.