Which effect is in progress now, due to the exacerbation of Soros's BLM credulous constituents, tools of the Antifa disruptors, and misplaced compassion of naive Caucasian admirers.
Lincoln's insistence on the Unity of the States of America, the conquering of separationist rebels, and over 100 years of attempts to minimize resentments are being undone by our current crop of "peaceful" (?) protesters whose rebelliousness will institute yet another all-out civil war if they can.
If at the end they win, you can kiss any hope of your own freedom and law-abiding peacefulness goodbye, my FRiend.
In supporting efforts like "Juneteenth," and "peaceful protesting" against way overstated "police brutality," and toleration of BLM, you are only magnifying the effort to tear down our Constitution which defines the independence our Founders have bequeathed their progeny, whether literal or spiritual.
It's time to get off your high horse and focus on the Constitutional independence that has played out to finally release, long ago, the segments of African impotees who have developed an irreconcilable attitude and are now demonstrating it through events like "Juneteenth" and "Kwanzaa" etc
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You have misstated my position by adding in things I did not say. I never said anything about the protests, about the demonization of the police or of tolerating BLM. My supporting a Juneteenth holiday has nothing to do whatsoever with those ideas. I'm sure there are those who are rioting, who demonize the police, who are pro-BLM who are in favor of the holiday. My support for it goes no further than what I stated in my previous post. Period.
As for tearing down the Constitution, I don't think acknowledging the past injustice of slavery and its subsequent termination does anything of the sort. Another poster suggested instead of a Juneteenth holiday, perhaps a celebration of the 13th Amendment is more in order. Until that amendment was passed, enslaved Blacks had no such enjoyment of the Constitutional rights that you rightly laud. And it is because of the "irreconcilable attitude" of which you speak that my heart was burdened to consider how an acknowledgement of this momentous (and, it would seem, deeply hurtful) past event might well lead to the kind of reconciliation that would lead to freeing us all from the present slavery we, both Black and White, currently endure.
I'm not for shining shoes, like Mr. Cathy over at Chik-Fil-A. I'm not for reparations or giveaways of any kind. I'm not for approving of destructive behavior/rioting. I'm not for anything other than for a genuine reconciliation. If that's what it means to be on a high horse, then, "Hi-yo, Silver!" True reconciliation is the path that leads to peace.