Posted on 06/19/2024 9:35:47 AM PDT by River Hawk
Today marks the third Juneteenth America has officially celebrated as a federal holiday. The country would be a whole lot better without it.
We already have a black holiday with Martin Luther King Day. We didn’t need another one, especially one that its proponents wanted to weaponize to browbeat America into giving reparations. Juneteenth enshrines the false idea that blacks are the protagonists of American history while whites are its villains.
When this was first made a holiday, I thought it might one day supplant Independence Day in importance. It was a year after George Floyd. America appeared well on the road to establishing Afrolatry as its state religion. DEI was sweeping through schools and businesses. Anti-white racism was being normalized beyond comprehension, with kids’ cartoons even pushing a hate whitey message. The Left was tearing down monuments left and right–even George Washington and Abraham Lincoln weren’t safe from iconoclasm. Our heritage was deemed too white and oppressive. It seemed like the nation was set to adopt a whole new history of itself, one free of the white man.
What better way to formalize this process than to make Juneteenth the new Independence Day? Instead of celebrating dead white men, America would celebrate blacks (who also somehow freed themselves) and dethrone whites from their central place in America history.
But the Left seems to run into a problem. It’s not that normal Americans are in the thrall of a full-on backlash against the meaning of Juneteenth. They just don’t care enough about it to be impacted by it.
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If Juneteenth needs to be celebrated, then, call if Black Liberation Day, but MLK and Black History Month need to go.
June 19, 1978...
shall remain once and forever...
the day that publication of the Garfield comic strip commenced!
hoorah!!
hoorah for Garfield the cat!!
Why, it ranks right up there with Kwaanza!!!
Dolemite
Human Tornado
and lets not forget
The Disco Godfather
There will be uncivilized activity in many areas this evening. We’ll read about it tomorrow morning. Don’t take a risk by going into the fray.
Actually Congress left Washington’s birthday alone (except for moving the commemoration to a Monday). It was Richard Nixon who started the custom of calling the holiday “Presidents’ Day” (presumably thinking it honored both Washington and Lincoln—but Lincoln’s birthday had never been a federal holiday, only a holiday in some states). Now it is treated as a holiday in honor of all the Presidents.
Slavery did not officially end until the ratification of the 13th amendment on Dec. 6, 1865. The loyal slave states (and occupied areas of the Confederacy as of Jan. 1, 1863) were not covered by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Thanks for the clarification.
I don’t think so. Why can’t I ask a simple question?
Yet the holiday still is on the books.
Juneteenth celebrates the day Republican troops freed the last of the Democrat-owned slaves.
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THIS!!!
One minor correction....the slaves had already been freed in 1863 via the Emancipation Proclamation.
This was the Union Army announcing they had been freed as a result.
Hmmmm...I won’t be celebrating this one, and furthermore, I’m also highly unlikely to celebrate Kwanzaa, but I’ll probably re-read Ann Coulter’s column about it.
“Some Blacks on Social Media Don’t Want White People Celebrating Juneteenth”
Those are taxes dollars wasted as we approach $50 trillion in debt.
Unless federal employees are somehow paid more on a PTO day than they are for working I don't see how one more paid holiday contributes in any meaningful way to the deficit. The amount paid to the employee is the same; it's just less work getting done. Knowing our government, that might actually be a good thing.
Yeah, I actually clicked the link this time and he does seem to be pushing racial divisions. Not sure where he got the idea that the left was trying to replace 4th of July with Juneteenth. I live in a deep blue state, where woke goes to thrive, and not even Newscum was talking about getting rid of the 4th of July.
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