I’m sure the average liberated ex-slave was very grateful for what the overwhelmingly Republican Union army did for them. Their descendants, not so much.
That doesn’t mean that those descendants are willfully blind. No, it’s because they have been subject to decades and decades of Democrat propaganda, all with little GOP pushback. It’s a damn shame.
On Independence Day, July 4, we celebrate the day our ancestors (literal or philosophical) stood up on their own two feet, told the King of England to buzz off, and then fought a war to make it stick. We celebrate Men who earned their freedom at the risk of their own “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor”.
There’s a big difference between Independence Day and “Juneteenth”.