Posted on 06/19/2020 11:54:20 AM PDT by Dacula
Throw that one in with “polar vortex,” “woke,” etc.
And remember, Delaware’s slaves weren’t freed until December 1865. Biden remembers it well.
Statement by Obama from “The Hill” dated 06/19/16 in part: “On this Juneteenth, we remember that struggle as we reflect on how far we’ve come as a country,”
Qupte from “Politico” dated 06/19/12 “President Obama marked the Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas — saying that the occasion should prompt some reflection “on how far we’ve come as a nation.”
This was the result of, literally, 3 minutes of a google search. I have no doubt that with another 10 - 15 minutes of search I could find statements from the other six years of the Obama presidency.
Statement by the President on the Observance of Juneteenth
On this day 150 years ago
I tried to pull every record on Obama for this date.
According to Wikipedia (which we cannot use on this site they did not have anything. I checked the White House and did not find what you found.
Thank you.
Good for you get a cookie.
I checked what I thought to be resources. I will NOT EVER do a google search.
Thank you for playing.
It has been kina a big deal in Galveston TX for a long time since that is where union general Granger announced that the slaves in Texas were freed. The teenth thing is because it took a while to get the news all over Texas so not every one heard the proclamation on the same day. Celebrations in Houston have now gone national,
Riddle me this one batman, why does Obama’s own website not have any information on June 19th?
I took out my Webster’s 1996 Unabridged version of their
dictionary. There are only 2200 plus pages with a huge
listing on each page, and gosh oh golly, no Juneteenth.
Think of Kwansa.
Juneteenth is a name that only an illiterate person could
think made sense.
It’s was coined to become another racially divisive word.
It will become a wedge that will split us farther apart.
I don’t mind being reminded of the hundreds of thousands
who died to bring about emancipation. I don’t mind being
reminded of the fact these people were emancipated. I am
glad they were. It just baffles me that they can’t also
recognize how much our nation has changed, so they can
forget about that and hate us for what took place before
many many many changes and reverse discrimination has
been ensconced in our culture.
Some of them riot on the streets, loot, arson, beat people
of other colors...
I’m done feeling sorry for folks who can’t grasp progress
and the need for all of us to get along.
Except that we are now being told (ABC radio news for one) that today marks the official end of slavery in the U.S. when it clearly didn’t. It marks the day that slaves in Galveston, Texas were told that they were free under the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation. No doubt there were slaves away from the coast who got the news later. This was months after the Civil War ended and months before the ratification of the 13th Amendment, passed by a Republican Congress and ratified by Republican states really officially ended slavery in the U.S.
People forget, or never learned, that Lincoln did not have the Constitutional power to end slavery—and he knew it. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by the 1st Republican President, only ended slavery in states still in rebellion against the U.S. He did this as a war measure in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief. It specifically excluded slaves in Union-occupied Confederate territory and of course left slavery untouched in Union slave states: MO, KY, WV, MD, and KY as well as DC.
No one gave a *bleep* about it until this year. It’s another commie play.
I agree.
Someone in the late 1990s told me that what they wanted to do
was turn the U. S. into South Africa. I laughed.
The last laugh was on me.
Ihave no problem with celebrating it but I do havea problem with adding it as a paid holiday, mostly for government workers. With dems in charge of everything we would soon have a holiday every Monday, sorta like congress has but they take the whole week.
he probably never heard of it either.
Like Cinco de Mayo. Only with malt liquor instead of margaritas.
Twin cities TV news did a story on a St Paul neighborhood celebrating Juneteenth maybe 25 years ago. I happened to catch the segment on the news. Never heard a word about it before or since.
Suddenly the push is on to make it a state and national holiday. Do people that think and act in such a way really expect to be taken seriously?
Transparent, pandering, knee-jerk reactions are no way to run a society.
FORMER president.
He’s “Former”. Words mean things. :^)
Say it just because it annoys the Hell out of that commie POS...
:^)
I was thinking more like loot a Footlocker.
Obama Timeline while in office on June 19th – • 2009 – Along with other prominent fathers, Obama holds a town hall meeting at the White House to commemorate Father’s Day, and bring awareness to the relationship of American fathers and children. President Obama notably identified his father as one of the greatest influences in his own life, in the short time that they were together.
That must have been the greatest weekend of his life.
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