Posted on 06/19/2023 8:19:49 AM PDT by Demiurge2
Pick your grift... which of these holidays is the most wholly fabricated (hurry and vote before George Floyd's birthday is added to the ballot)?
Kwanzaa was made up by a black liberation Marxist felon in the 1960s. Same guy that was convicted of kidnapping and torturing two women. Send that fake day back to hell.
Just went to our bank, sign read:
CLOSED, in observance of NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY, Juneteenth
Does this mean JULY 4th is no longer THE national Independence Day?
The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free. In addition, the Proclamation allowed for former slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States".
So we have a national holiday celebrating a Union Army Military Govenor informing some former slaves in Texas that they were indeed free two years after the fact.
Juneteenth should ideally be acknowledged by freedom loving people everywhere. Not necessarily a “holiday” but an acknowledgment.
A lot of airing of grievances on this thread.
I acknowledge it as a Texas celebration, but it has nothing to do with celebrating the end of slavery nationally.
“Kwanzaa is a made up week-long celebration of what in the old days used to be called Negritude.”
Négritude is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s in France, aimed at raising and cultivating “Black consciousness” across Africa and its diaspora. It doesn’t exist except in the minds of a few people in Africa and is not an American holiday. That was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa. Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author, convicted felon and professor of Africana studies at Cal State San Louis Obispo at the time of the invention.
wy69
those slaves freed in Galveston Tx were the last slaves freed under the authority of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth commemorates an actual date and event. The other is a bit less genuine than Festivus.
MD and MO had outlawed slavery by then. Only KY and DE retained legal slavery until the 13th Amendment was ratified.
MLK birthday
Charlie Kirk is on a loooong rant about Juneteenth.
Lincoln had no authority over any Confederate state until his army occupied it.
I like your idea. June used to be an exciting month. Summer! Fun, and vacations. I can’t wait for it to be over. In your face every single minute. OMG.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebel South. It was done as a form of economic warfare like the blockade. In a sense it still left human beings as a form of property. Technically & legally it could have been revoked. The 13th Amendment ended that and not just there but for as long as the US Constitution held sway.
The 13th made it national. It should celebrated as such.
Those who push this June teeth nationally have another agenda. I guarantee it’s not an America as a nation agenda.
In Christianity and Aristotle, the cooperation is willing. In socialism it is compelled. And socialism always comes with concentration camps.
Both.But I can’t complain too much about Juneteenth....my birthday’s a holiday now.
Juneteenth celebrates the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been signed 18 months earlier, reached Texas. It is a black mark (ahem) on the history of my state.
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