Posted on 06/19/2020 4:12:39 AM PDT by C19fan
For far too long Juneteenth, marking the official end of slavery in America, has remained a niche holiday within the Black community. Now it must turn into a national holiday that all Americans should embrace.
Following George Floyd’s murder, Americans have stood up and declared that they can no longer tolerate the American status quo that devalues Black lives. Americans of all walks of life have supported defunding the police, and forcefully removed statues and monuments celebrating Confederates, slave owners and colonizers who terrorized indigenous people. Americans have occupied the streets chanting Black Lives Matter and shouting down white supremacy.
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However it is to be done, for reasons I’ve stated, I believe it would be beneficial to all. Not some bowing to the demands of some Leftist idea, but a genuine recognition that we, the people, appear to be in need of a starting point for moving forward.
If the past month or so has shown us anything it is that all of America is, to a certain degree, in bondage to our past. The race issue will not go away. It is time for men and women of good will to figure out how to free all enslaved by that past so that we can all be truly free. In my view, we’re not there yet. And this is in no way referring to the Marxist, Antifa elements of what we’ve seen.
The blacks should start trying to celebrate Father’s Day if they want to help their community
Wait! Does that mean kwaznaa has ended? I’m so confused!
Would it be wrong if I suggested we call Juneteenth a National Day of Mourning?
I never owned any slaves, and you never picked any cotton.
With all due respect, if you are the ancestor of American slaves, how can you possibly view July 4th as “independence” day? Your ancestors were probably working some field for the first 80 or so celebrations of that holiday.
My guess is, if you are Black, “the only day worthy of such national remembrance” of independence would be a celebration of when my ancestors were finally accorded the “inalienable rights” set forth in the Declaration of Independence, which would coincide with their finally being set free.
Screw that.
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To: C19fan
do we bring fried chicken and watermelon?
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I will not celebrate this new holiday. It suddenly became a new national mandatory holiday. Banks stumbling over each other to close today.
By next year it will be mandatory in every state, and nationally. It will be right up there next to George Floyd Day, and Rayshard Brooks Day. Days during which it will be legal for a non-White to beat up a White. (Wait! it already is!)
As near as I can tell blacks are still slaves.
I demand that a picture of President Lincoln be included on the flag. Freed slaves loved Lincoln.
I’m nearly 67 Years Old and I don’t recall ever hearing about Juneteenth before. What a cowinkydinky.
It’s just another day that the mail doesn’t come.
Just what we need ... another federal holiday
Chin Fil A CEO wants his workers to shine the shoes of African American customers! Guess he doesn’t want to be called a racist for selling fried chicken
I have also thought that the ending of slavery in America should be a holiday. It was a great achievement in our history and should be commemorated. However, I don’t think it should be Juneteenth rather it should be Dec 18th, the date that the 13th Amendment was officially adopted.
By making this a national holiday we acknowledge all the toil and sacrifice of Americans, both white and black, to end slavery since the adoption of the constitution. How many Americans are aware that Ben Franklin served as President of an abolitionist organization? I would guess not many.
The author of this piece wants people to believe that blacks freed themselves and that whites just freed the slaves to help win a war. Though there is some truth to that there is more truth in the fact that blacks would have never been free without the help of whites and that many whites from the adoption of the constitution on knew that slavery was wrong and antithetical to our founding proclamation of “All men are created equal”.
There were also 350,000 men, mostly white, who died fighting to both preserve America and, after the emancipation proclamation, free the enslaved people of the south. After the emancipation proclamation the US Army became an army of liberation for those enslaved.
A holiday celebrating the end of slavery in America should be one that brings together all Americans that truly love their country.
My vote for "Post of the Day".
Nice job!
As I was reading your response I couldn’t help but think of how a greater magnifying glass could be brought to bear on America’s true history and how that might alter the perceptions of both Blacks and Whites in our country. Think of how the telling of the story of abolitionists would yank the rug out from under lying Leftist college professors whose ill-informed students are only allowed to hear about America’s racist past!
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