You are pathetic.
Fury: "Good grief."
Sorry, gentlemen. Your lofty opinions of Juneteenth are ridiculous.
I have been a current events news junkie and a student of American history for more than 60 years.
80% of Americans - including me - had never even heard of Juneteenth until Obama became President.
The first time someone posted a news article about Juneteenth at Free Republic was 2015.
The claim that slaves in Texas did not know about the Emancipation Proclamation or gain their freedom until December 1865 is not correct.
By 1863, Texas was completely surrounded by slave free USA territories, slave free Union Army occupied states, a slave free Mexico, and a slave free Gulf of Mexico.
Slave owners in Texas knew the slave business was dead two years before the War ended.
No doubt some Texas slaves were still mistreated after 1863.
But, most Texas slaves knew about Emancipation and knew that the slave states were being slowly crushed by the Union Army.