Posted on 06/19/2020 11:54:20 AM PDT by Dacula
I really don’t understand what your point is. He clearly (based on quotes from both Politico and The Hill) made statements referencing Juneteenth while he was President, regardless of what his website says. Are you saying differently? If not, what exactly are you saying?
Delaware’s slaves weren’t freed until December 1865. Biden remembers it well.
Probably, one of the few things that Joe remembers!
BTW, I don’t see an issue with embracing Juneteenth, which Texas has been celebrating forever.
It is the defining moment when republicans finally ended the scourge of democratic evil again the black slave population.
It is the moment when the LAST of those who were on this great soil gained their independence, a fitting bookend to our July 4th celebrations, when most of us first got our freedom.
It actually has been a big deal in some places, although definitely not high on anybody’s list. I mean, it is a celebration of the end of slavery, the freedom for blacks. No democrat really wanted to celebrate that.
Virginia has a proclamation every year. We just had never made it into a holiday until now.
Juneteenth is/was a Texas thing that I didn’t know about, either. It’s like a lot of local holidays that only the hosting state and its residents are aware of.
I would argue that it has a good reason to be a federal holiday. We have July 4th as our day we declared independence, and became a “free people”. Juneteenth is when we offered that same freedom to the black slaves, it is the day that our nation truly became “fully free”.
That seems like a reason to celebrate, and one that at the moment democrats can’t say no to. I assume once we really get into it, the democrats will remember why they suppressed it for so long.
Texas has it as a state holiday since 1980. So the democrats have had decades to make it a bigger deal.
Dang it, don’t ruin a good story with facts.
It took decades to get democrats to the point where they had no choice but to recognize that we freed the slaves. They will never acknowledge that the native americans did slavery before we got here.
It is the hilarious part of 1619, once again white people thinking THEY are the start of EVERYTHING, when slavery was already here, just as our nation already had inhabitants.
Sorry, I’m done celebrating skin color.Martin Luther King Day, black history month, made up kwanzaa holiday, now Juneteenth. Smacks of racial narcissism. Let’s find another holiday, perhaps National Aardvark Day.
It is interesting though that he appears not to have known about it until the 150th anniversary. Once he learned of it, he made a statement the following year as well.
But you know — Texas has been celebrating this since 1980. We all know about it now, and it seems like a good thing to celebrate, the end of the war where we sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to make sure black slaves had the same freedom we did.
Nope, it's here.
Didn't look for the others but hard to believe he'd miss a chance.
In the early 60s I attended NAACP meetings often. One meeting in Wheaton IL: a member suggested they celebrate Junteenth.
The chairman upfront stated that Junteenth was a Republican Holiday and the NAACP was 501c3 and could not endorse a political party.
It is interesting how history is re-witten. Many stories about how a gang of whites committed genocide on Blacks in Tulsa. No mention that the gang of whites Were Democrats and the Blacks who were murdered were Republicans.
Thanks for the correction. Missed it in my search.
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.
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Putting ourselves in their shoes, if the day that I found out I could go free with some particular day, I think I would celebrate that day. I think it’s important for us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes rather than splitting hairs about particular dates times and exactness of things. I think in a way it makes us very small. Not everything has liberal communist Intentions. And I despise liberal communist fascists etc, those on the left and knows University professors Antifa Etc I despise all of them.
I have no quarrel with anyone who celebrates the emancipation of slaves. And if ‘Juneteenth’ is a day that resonates with many, I have no problem with that either. Our nation, went through a great amount of trouble to achieve Emancipation Day. I do have a bit of a problem with the distortion in describing the day. The fact is, that most slaves were emancipated long before June 19, 1865. While there were slaves in Texas, the bulk of them were east of the Mississippi.
Juneteenth should be a Texas holiday. And there should be an Emancipation Day, I don’t know if it should be June 19, but if it is, I don’t have a major problem with it.
I get your point, but...
Search works on the interweb, too.
https://time.com/3929328/president-obama-juneteenth/
Some people aren’t very good at research.
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