Posted on 06/21/2020 8:15:20 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
What do you think about Juneteenth? Consider how suddenly it’s been foisted upon us.
How can blacks be proud of it?
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In a lot of respects, your first line answers that question.
The second one doesn’t ‘bother’ them but the first one makes them very happy in a very ‘in your face’ way.
Exactly.
I am despairing. If my local Repub club caves to this nonsense - IOW they are playing the BLM game - how do I connect with anyone locally reliably about this whole insurrection?
That was one day.
My understanding is TX as a whole state did not permanently honor this until 1980. Per other poster comment.
Noted. You'll be remembered.
i celebrated with a watermelon.
KY - 225,000 slaves per 1960 census
22,000 slaves freed by the 13th Amendment
Is this a case of the glass being one-tenth empty or a case of the glass being nine-tenths full?
Why didn’t KY abolish slavery completely and not only see it reduced by 90 percent?
In contrast to the lie perpetrated by the movie Lincoln (which, nevertheless, was a great movie), there was no actual opposition to emancipation by the time of the debate on the 13th Amendment, the question was compensation. Kentucky thought, having been a loyal slave state, its slaveowners should be compensated. The Congress ended slavery in D.C. with compensation. Shouldn’t the loyal slave states be treated on a similar basis?
In fact, the Emancipation Proclamation provided a form of compensation: slaveowners in the loyal slave states would receive the enlistment bonus of slaves joining the union army. This freed about one-tenth of the slaves of Kentucky. Another eight-tenths simply ran away.
In hindsight, the Brits ended slavery the right way, with compensation. (This doesn’t mean there were no complications.)
The Czars ended serfdom with a short period of transition (serfs had to continue to work for their former masters for two more years). However, Czars had more leeway about things like this because they’re not constrained by democracy.
We, in contrast, suffered an awful civil war. I’m not a pacifist, but wars not only put people into graves, they create harsh feelings that persist for generations. It should not be surprising that many wars lead to future wars and that those who are vanquished by war often take their revenge on the vulnerable among them.
Not much of history seems to be important today, why is this day so important?
I hope u do remember me
I always recall south bashers
The fact you cling to that virtue signaling garbage while we lose out country and western civilization
Says plenty
Was scheduled to work my day off for some extra cash, turns out our day shift was made to take 1/2 day and us overtime guys were sent home before our day started.
Never heard of juneteenth before, not an immediate fan of it.
It’s not “Juneteenf”?!
Total BS
If invited to a party to celebrate it we went and had a good time. Now I think it has become tainted with politics.
If the same people who I know in the past have celebrated it invite us over we will go. Those who are trying to be fashionable and trendy will receive a polite decline.
Yes, in Texas it has mostly been an East Texas upper Gulf Coast celebration. Austin, DFW, a few other larger Central Texas cities also. I have no problem with being it appropriated as a national celebration but find it ironic or funny (I can’t find the right word) that a celebration regional to only part of Texas would become national.
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I think it should be lumped in with MLK day, the same way they did with American Presidents.
A few days ago someone mentioned that his company was giving a half day for Juneteenth.
In true FReeper fashion, someone responded the it should be 3/5 of a day.
i first heard about it when i moved to texas in the early ‘70s. i remember all the stores having watermelon on sale.
Our side has to define it, though.
It’s a very GOOD thing, and our side made it happen. It’s everything we should stand for. Freedom. Equality of opportunity. Looking at the heart, not the skin color.
Never heard of it.
By coincidence, Jefferson Davis died on December 6 (many years later--in 1889).
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