Posted on 07/24/2020 1:29:13 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law Friday morning a $1.1 billion supplemental budget that covers some of the state’s COVID-19 spending and designates June 19 a holiday to celebrate Juneteenth.
The spending bill was sent to the Republican governor’s desk earlier this month with funds toward child care providers, food banks, personal protective equipment, the state’s contact tracing collaborative, hospitals and other health care programs. Baker said much of the bill, as it covers COVID-19 spending, will be reimbursable by the federal government.
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It’s so cute how he thinks he is a republican.
I still don’t know what Juneteenth even means.
SO glad I left that sh!thole.
The end of slavery in the “still-racist” USA.
Here it comes. Juneteenth is going to be the substitute for Columbus Day as a holiday in Academic calendars.
And they won’t stop with the removal of Columbus Day.
Neither did the “ex slaves” for YEARS
Always thought that was funny
Hey, you’re free
Say what, Man?
Within a year Juneteenth will be a national holiday.
Exactly. I can’t decide which contrived word I dislike more.. “Juneteenth” or “Gaslighting”.
Charlie Baker is an idiot and is committing “Cultural Appropriation” against Texas.
Don’t worry it is meaningless anywhere but Texas.
*Juneteenth* is a Texas thing. I fly the Lone Star every year on that date. If Mass. or any other state wants in on it I say welcome.
Juneteenth is traditionally celebrated only in Texas (as of 1980). It should be left there!!!!
Columbus Day should be celebrated everywhere in the USA—especially in Massachusetts!! But Amherst, Northampton, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and Great Barrington celebrate the bogus “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” instead!!!! How “politically correct” of them!!
And we can celebrate Columbus Day whether Columbus was Italian or Byzantine Greek!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xoC7n-XESAc&feature=emb_logo
It was Columbus who linked the New World to the Old!! Without him, no USA or Hispanic America!!!! And no Columbian Exchange!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
Juneteenth: blame it on the Republicans they did it.
Republicans: Getting people off the demoKKKrat plantation, setting them free and making demoKKKrats mad since 1861!
June 19th, 1865. That day, the emancipation proclamation was read aloud in Galveston, Texas (a major port city at the time). Up until recently, it was a Texas event only.
How about qwanza? Ebonics going to be taught to all our chil’ren too?
Yeah, the holiday is on Sunday. Feel free to take it off.
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