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Virginia lawmakers vote to make Juneteenth a state holiday
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| October 19, 2020
| Staff
Posted on 10/20/2020 2:53:48 AM PDT by C19fan
Juneteenth has officially become a state holiday after lawmakers unanimously approved legislation during the Virginia General Assembly special session.
Juneteenth marks the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, which was the last state to abolish slavery. The companion bills were introduced by Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, and Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Richmond. Gov. Ralph Northam signed the legislation on Oct. 13.
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Out of all the major events that occurred in Virginia during the Civil War, it was decided to celebrate something that happened in Texas. How about Appomattox Court House Day or Lincoln Enters Richmond Day???
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posted on
10/20/2020 2:53:48 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Yea! An Ebonics “Holiday.”
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posted on
10/20/2020 2:55:05 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: C19fan
Junteenth be now a holiday?
Dat sho nuff make me proud.
/s
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posted on
10/20/2020 2:56:32 AM PDT
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: C19fan
Actually, I think it’s time to stand up and help the Latinos get national status, and a national holiday as well.
To: C19fan
Juneteenth. Now that’s something all Americans can really get behind. 90% have no idea what it is. Democrats are unthinking.
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posted on
10/20/2020 3:17:58 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/20/2020 3:31:17 AM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
To: ronniesgal
Virginia needs to add Double Ten Day to the list. Can’t leave any one out.
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posted on
10/20/2020 3:34:10 AM PDT
by
Stevenfo
To: C19fan
I mourn the passing of Lee-Jackson day in Virginia.
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posted on
10/20/2020 3:35:59 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
(attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
To: Stevenfo
i figure Northam will make Michael Jackson’s birthday a holiday so we all moon walk.
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posted on
10/20/2020 3:41:39 AM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
To: C19fan
Virginia General Assembly also tried to pass a “POlice Officers cannot pull over drivers that failed to turn their head lights on when it’s dark” as well... that failed from the last time I looked...
Virginia General Assembly who are Democrats = are dumb and vile people... they look out for the criminal - not the Citizen!
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posted on
10/20/2020 4:30:20 AM PDT
by
Patriot_MP
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: jacknhoo
Didn’t Trump propose it as well?
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posted on
10/20/2020 4:32:01 AM PDT
by
trublu
To: Adder
hopefully the school yr will have ended so the teachers won’t get another paid day off....like they need to get anymore time off..
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posted on
10/20/2020 4:32:29 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: C19fan
Virginia, now East California, is a lesson for the other states.
Solid red just 15 years ago, now it is permanent blue thanks to illegal and legal immigration and RINO Republicans who would rather lose than have conservatives elected and lose their control of the party.
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posted on
10/20/2020 5:32:16 AM PDT
by
oldbill
To: C19fan
” ‘The way it was explained to me,’ ” one heir to the tradition is quoted in Hayes Turner’s essay, ” ‘the 19th of June wasn’t the exact day the Negro was freed. But that’s the day they told them that they was free … And my daddy told me that they whooped and hollered and bored holes in trees with augers and stopped it up with [gun] powder and light and that would be their blast for the celebration.’ ” I wonder if the enviro-wackos are aware of this?
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posted on
10/20/2020 5:41:52 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: C19fan
Does anyone know which day exactly “Juneteenth” will be celebrated?
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