It is very mysterious how it happened without any gradual changes as they gradually switched parties with fits and starts, it just happened as though they vote as a group.
Posted on 06/19/2026 12:20:58 PM PDT by MosesKnows
Juneteenth
President Biden made June 19th a Federal Holiday on June 17, 2021.
The slave owners in Galveston, Texas, deliberately hid the news of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1865, from enslaved people to maintain forced labor. There was no one to enforce the law until Major General Granger arrived on June 19 with 2,000 Union Troops to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation for enslaved people.
I wondered why the Democrats celebrate an event that paints them in a negative light. A National Holiday commemorating the Republican defeat of the Democratic institution of slavery?
I found out why the Democrats celebrate their failure. Get ready for it, the parties switched. Yes, indeed, many liberal democrat followers fervently believe that the two parties switched. The Pro-Slavery Democrats are now the Anti-Slavery party, and the Republican Party, created to free the slaves, is now the Pro-Slavery party, or as the democrats like to express it, the racist party.
They have one senator and the name of one congressional representative who switched parties. The Democrats assert that as evidence that the party switched as a collective.
The parties had not switched when the Democrats voted against the 13th Amendment to free the slaves.
The parties had not switched when the Democrats voted against the 14th Amendment to make freed slaves citizens.
The parties had not switched when the Democrats voted against the 15th Amendment to allow freed slaves to vote.
I’ll skip the various civil rights legislation leading up to the 1964 Voting Rights Act, where the Democrats conducted the longest Democrat filibuster against the Civil Rights Act, and a Republican senator broke the Democrat filibuster.
Juneteenth exists so blacks have something to celebrate on Father’s Day weekend.
Oh, a wise guy, eh?
Saw a snaky substitute name for June 19th that I will not repeat.
Seems appropriate for yet another make believe racial day like Kazoo.
Yep.
George Wallace was always a democrat except for that one of his several presidential runs when he went 3rd party and then went back to running for governor (and winning) as a democrat.
MLK wasn’t a republican.
It was a dark and stormy night
I moved step by step......
The black vote switched in 1936 and never went back.
In 1932 FDR got the usual democrat black vote of about 23% but he did something that reversed the black vote in 1936 winning 71%, and it has stayed that way ever since, there was no gradual movement, it happened instantly and totally.
Legitimate celebration of emancipation begins with the Declaration of Independence, which doomed slavery in this country; doomed to extinction an institution which had been at the center of economic activity throughout world history. The philosophical doctrines consulted for our founding placed master and slave on the same natural plane of existence. All were defined as equally possessing intangible, individual liberties. Next the Emancipation Proclamation shattered slavery beyond recovery in this country. The Thirteenth Amendment passed in December 1865 freed the last quarter-million slaves held in border states and states that did not secede.
The actions of Major General Gordon Granger in June 1865 bore witness to momentous events. In its irrelevancy, the Juneteenth holiday allows an irrelevant social/political faction to exhume the rotting or desiccated carcasses of racist expressions from prior generations for the philosophical underpinnings that support White Privilege, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory. These expressions enable accumulation of a swarm that imagines systemic racism through newly created discoveries to foster anxieties and prejudices.
The allegiance is to Cultural Marxism. Karl Marx said, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”. So, instead of embracing intangible, personal liberties as found in our Declaration of independence and Constitution, people join swarms around race. They malinger under a revived burden of virulent mythologies producing black urban cultures with shattered families, indiscriminate abortion, and rampant criminality; cultures where blacks re-segregate themselves and reject Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of a symphony of brotherhood.
Didn’t Eisenhower win the majority of black votes in 1956?
Wrong. It’s January 1, 1863 .
send it private?
It is very mysterious how it happened without any gradual changes as they gradually switched parties with fits and starts, it just happened as though they vote as a group.
Name one. I remember those reprobates… they were all greedy FDR “New Deal” Democrats. They were many things. Conservative wasn’t one of them.
Today’s leaders are worse than plantation owners. Try leaving the Communist plantation.
Biden was a hater who was always trying to stir the pot...hence the name. Democrats haven't done squat for black citizens so stirring up hatred and fear among them is the best way to keep them voting democrat. And on the plantation. That's 'what's up'... “Juneteenth National Freedom Day' would have been more appropriate...
When the national holiday was established, the media promoted Juneteenth as the Black Independence Day. That didn’t catch on, but the holiday is still around.
Biden only signed it after every Republican senator voted for it.
I like the holiday but not the name.
Eisenhower got 40% of the black vote. Johnson got 94%
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