Posted on 06/19/2022 7:22:13 PM PDT by RandFan
@GOP
“Juneteenth is an important part of the history of our country and the Republican Party.”— @GOPChairwoman
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I am all for Juneteenth. Republicans are the anti-slavery party, so founded, so continued, and I rejoice at the end of chattel slavery. No problem.
There is no proof the word Juneteenth was ever uttered by a former slave. More likely, something a former slave owner may have attributed to a former slave to imply that class of person could not count past twelve and had no business making decisions in the voting booth.
My guess, most former adult slaves - even if they could not read - had the ability to count to 19.
No one outside of Texas ever heard of it until a couple of years ago when blm was causing trouble and making headlines.
That is an interesting comment.
Any reason you celebrate the end of slavery in the former Confederate states and don't celebrate the end of slavery in the United States?
If Democrats had their way black Americans would still be slaves. That is their history. When that didn’t work out for them they invented the New Deal as a substitute for outright slavery. For Decades that plan has worked quite effectively. Rewarding Laziness and envy for government handouts trumped everything the Republicans did to set them free.
FJB and the juneteenth he rode in on.
Well, nobody gave me any money for a day off.
had the ability to count to 19.
Only lost the one thumb.
KKK and White Citizen’s Councils were all Democrats.. . Dems were thugs then and they’re thugs now....
Republicans freed the slaves.
Shouldn’t it be Juneteenf?
nope
this is pandering
and its like The Black National Anthem crap
Yep.
I figure it’s for the whole country.
“I figure it’s for the whole country.”
Well, that is not quite right. The United States clung to slavery after the Confederacy was defeated.
Your schoolteachers may have kept that a secret from you.
Look it up.
Kneel Before WakandaZod
“Midsummer’s Kwanzaa”
BS! Paying more lip service to the Black community will get you exactly the same things it got you in the past...NOTHING. They are SLAVES to the democrat party and NOTHING you do will change their minds.
Gag me!
We have spineless politicians who feel compelled to grovel and virtue signal at every opportunity.
From: Retain Mike Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2022 11:45 AM Subject: Juneteenth End of Slavery
Celebrating Juneteenth as the end of slavery also fulfills the aspirations of delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The founders could not abolish slavery but came closer than often believed. Slavery was retained, but delegates only agreed to suspend Congressional initiatives until 1808 and expected it to vanish as a matter of moral obligation.
The philosophical doctrines consulted for founding this country already placed master and slave on the same natural plane of existence and only postponed the free exercise of conscience. It was reasonably believed planters would no longer be satisfied with luxuries, indolence, and cruelties, but aspire to the profit, energy, and incentives found in Northern methods of enterprise.
In reading James Madison’s notes, you find no defense of slavery, but two firm denunciations during debates that abhorred the institution. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania said, “It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of heaven on states where it prevailed. Compare Middle States where a rich and noble civilization marks prosperity and happiness with….great regions of slaves presenting a desert increasing in proportion to these retched beings”. George Mason of Virginia said, “This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants…. Slavery discourages arts and manufactures….Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant….They bring the judgement of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this”.
As an economically dying institution when the Constitution was approved, it seemed a not intractable problem to settle.
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