My advice to my fellow FReepers on how to get through this ‘Juneteenth’ thing is as follows: Remember, and dwell on, two important things: 1) June 19th is also National Martini Day. Gin and Vermouth are both pretty cheap, so you got no excuse. and 2) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were both executed on this date in 1953 (see post #3). They were a husband and wife Russian spy team who were tried and convicted of Espionage for giving American atomic bomb secrets to the Russians. Aaah for the good old days. Anyway, just dwell on those two things, and you’ll make it through tomorrow okay.
We shouldn't just be "getting through it".
We should join the celebration and tell the real story the "media" conveniently forgets.
If the whole story was known, it is a great holiday.
Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas after years of fighting democrats.
The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree of the Republican President of the USA.
This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.
It is a holiday for freedom loving Republicans of all skin shades.
Four of my Republican ancestors, 2 from NH and 2 from VT, died in the fight to free the slaves from their democrat masters.