I find it nothing but pandering and groveling. It’s not been a nationally-known day (my husband only just found out when I brought it up last week, and I only because few years back it was brought up on some documentary). I’m betting most blacks didn’t know about it...because it was local!
Nothing more than Cinco de Mayo, with exact same background and same intention...undermine this country.
Bah humbug.
In my town they decided to hold a Juneteenth parade with cars waving African flags and take this parade all through. Lucky for me I live a a dead end street. Very strange that they were saluting the flags that enslaved them and a continent that still has slave to this day.
I think it’s all a bunch of malarky.
It's the day the Army of the Republic under the overall command of Abraham Lincoln (R) made the Emancipation Proclaimation real for slaves held by demoncrats.
The GOP was, and still is, the party of freedom and liberation.
It both angers and saddens me that even conservatives have bought into it. A renowned conservative writer wrote on Facebook that “Juneteenth” should be celebrated as the day troops from the Republican-led Union freed slaves held by a Democrat regime. I replied that it will more likely be seen as a victory for Antifa/BLM.
ABC had an hour-long special this year. Why didn't they have one last year or in any previous year?
While every media outlet is glorifying JT today none of them mentioned it or recognized it or celebrated it before 2020; and then only when Trump announced he was holding a rally in Tulsa.
Before 2020, the media had no interest in Juneteenth.
BTW my spell check doesn't recognize Juneteenth so my spell check is either racist or the word Juneteenth is used so infrequently it doesn't even make it into an online dictionary.
Seems a reasonable thing to celebrate.
During my USAF career, I was stationed in the south for a total of 14 years. Juneteenth was never a “revered” holiday. It was more like Cinco de Mayo or Mari Gras...just a chance to party.
if I understand things, democrat slaveowners kept the news of freedom from their slaves until well into June, hence ‘juneteenth’. wonder when this will come out
I grew up in Texas. It’s been celebrated in Texas a long time!
Cinco de Mayo has become an informal holiday for all Americans. After all, you don’t need much of an excuse to drink beer. As most people know, it is not Mexican independence day. It’s to celebrate Mexico’s resistance to being recolonized and also our role with the Monroe Doctrine to guarantee the continued independence of all of fellow American Republics.
Similarly, Jackie Robinson Day is an informal holiday for all Americans. On that day, all MLB baseball players wear #2. Not only all MLB American baseball players, but also all MLB international baseball players. This turns the day into a day of triumph not just of a particular group of us, but for all of us. And, furthermore, something that we offer to the entire world. Our founding principle, that all men are created equal.
Regarding Junteenth, I’ve been thinking about that. The Democrats want to use it as part of their 1619 project. In particular, to separate emancipation from Lincoln and the Civil War and treat emancipation as something that came magically to a small group of us. But, what about the end of serfdom in Europe, which came at about the same time? And, what about the Brussels Conference Act of 1890, the culmination of the emancipation movement of the 19th Century bringing an end to (legal) slavery in the entire world?
These are great accomplishments that we achieved not only for ourselves but for the entire world. Our revolution was so revolutionary that it has taken us two centuries to make it real and we are still working on it. At some point, we are going to realize that practically the entire history of the country has been working out the meaning of those words, we hold these truth to be self evident. That’s what our flag represents. What our honored dead sacrificed their lives for. And what we the living strive for. We’re not a country, like other countries, founded on a place or on a race. We are a country founded on an idea.
I think it’s fine.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with it. It ought to be taught with pride in school and recognized by all Americans for the great achievement it was.
Cinco de Mayo, on the other hand, has no American roots, and is nothing more than a marketing scheme for selling alcohol.
So there’s kwanza and now this.
Juneteenth is commonly thought of as celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, however, it was still legal and practiced in two Union border states (Delaware and Kentucky) until December 6, 1865, when ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished non-penal slavery nationwide.
So no, I don't see it as pandering at all. I just see it as a date that has deeper meaning for blacks. I certainly have no problem with it. But now it has a meaning for me as well. I have never supported the concept of enslaving people. But back then a percentage of people embraced slavery, while a more significant percentage tolerated its existence. Sadly the Middle East and parts of Africa still practice slavery.
Are they not guilty though of what they claim, that silence is violence. While it may not be racism as such, slavery is slavery, even if it involves enslaving those of your own race. Yet they remain silent about it and focus solely on the fact that whites engaged in it. Every race on the face of this earth has engaged in the unacceptable practice of slavery. No race is innocent.
Just another day. In my mind, every day I awaken is my birthday.
I DON’T think of it.
I think the reason most people have a poor opinion of Juneteenth is because of the name, I hate the name, to me its just too ghettoish.
On the other hand I have no problem having a national holiday celebrating Emancipation. I happen to think it a huge moment in the history of the US, and ending slavery was the overriding issue that fueled the Civil War, so I have no problem have a holiday to honor it, but at least lets call it something dignified like Emancipation Day or something like that.
Never heard of it until this year after Trump planned a rally on that day.
I had heard of Juneteenth many years ago in a book about the civil war. I am against making it a national holiday because I believe the event that caused it is so minor and isolated to one state(Texas).
However, I have believed for many years that the ending of slavery in this country was one of our greatest accomplishments and should be celebrated with a national holiday. Either Jan 31st, when the Amendment was ratified by the house and sent to the states, Dec 6, when it was ratified by the required number of states, or Dec 18, when it’s adoption to the constitution was officially recognized.
It presumes Blacks can't say "June Nineteenth".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
OOPS!
Prince Harry backs move to ban Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Duke of Sussex signals his support for review of England rugby anthem linked to slavery despite huge backlash from fans
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 16:16 EDT, 20 June 2020 | Georgia Simcox
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