Its like leftists finally read one of those “what happened on this date in history” articles in a newspaper.
We have it here in Texas.
I know zero Blacks that celebrated this.
I lived in Wilmington DE, and outside Philly now...
That said, I’ll take a day off.
I guess MLB’s annual Jackie Robinson day pandering is not enough.
Just another day that the mail doesn’t come.
Blacks should celebrate the whites who fought for their freedom.
There are a few million of them.
I’m ok with that as long as we’re actually insisting that the day was due to the Republican President Lincoln executive action of the Constitution during the Civil War.
History is so forgotten by the current generation that they don’t remember the war that led to the end of slavery and the freedom mechanisms that the Constitution ensured.
Rearrange a couple of letters in his name, and you get ‘penile’.
Only if it’s renamed “Emancipation Day.” If we’re going to make a Holiday of this thing, then for Heaven’s sake, define the object properly.
Juneteenth, the annual commemoration of emancipation that has been celebrated in the African American community since June 19, 1865, should be a national federal holiday.
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What a load of garbage. If they want to do THAT, why not declare the day of the Emancipation Proclamation a holiday and not the day some guy in Texas first learned of it?
Make Juneteenth a national holiday now (opinion)
Bull sh^%, we already have Martin Luther King day.
Am I the only guy who had never HEARD of either this “holiday” OR of ANYONE “celebrating” it until 2 days ago?
Never heard of it till it popped up on my phone calendar and I looked it up to see what the fuss was about. Could not delete it from my calendar, some tecky butt hurting guilt deluded do gooder decided for me.
Going law was the only step next on the push. Well they can’t regulate my perception edit and I call superfluous. Period
First things first : eliminate President’s day and bring back Lincoln and Washington’s Birthday as holidays
Wait isn’t the very term “Juneteenth” a racial slur, as though “some” are incapable of saying June nineteenth?
MLK Day covers it. period.
What? The same people who are destroying statues and erasing history of anything about slavery all over the place now want another day to memorialize it? Sheeeeeesh… give me a break.
It already is here in Texas. cnn has been awful slow to catch on. I’d say cnn is a racist organization doing their damndest to divide Americans of all races.
Another racist-centric demand from dark skinned people. They really are the most racist among us.
JoMa
We have always celebrated Juneteenth with a watermelon. We acknowledge the day. We celebrate all non religious special days much the same way. We have candy on Valentine’s Day, put up a Christmas tree on Pearl Harbor day. We are white people who live quietly and know the value of history. We respect all human beings as created by God.
We have served in the Military, lived in foreign lands, legally adopted children, attended church regularly and quietly loved and served our God, Family and Country. That is the good life. Choosing to do good. Choosing to love quietly.