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June 19, 2026 | MosesKnows

[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.

[Round Earther]

“Eisenhower got 40% of the black vote. Johnson got 94%”

You may want to speak to Goldwater about that.

[ansel12]

Yes, which doesn’t change anything I’ve posted, the GOP ALWAYS easily won the black vote until 1936 when a permanent reversal took place and since 1936 the democrats have ALWAYS easily won the black vote.

A mysterious all at once and permanent reversal of a major groups vote.

[GOPJ]

I lived in the Jim Crow South and I can assure you MLK was NOT a democrat in 1954 when he started preaching in Montgomery Alabama.

The South was one party and that party was Jim Crow democrat.

OK, maybe MLK wasn’t attached to either party in the early years... that’s possible.

[ansel12]

The part about him being a republican has been debunked, his dad was though.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Which president said “We’ll have these ni&&ers voting for us for the next hundred years?

And what was that president’s political party?

Unfortunately, it looks like he was right.

[ealgeone]

The so called switch of the parties....IF one goes and looks at national and state elections that trend doesn't happen until the early 2000s IIRC.

Yes, there were Republican presidents, but the House remained demoncrat until 1994.

From 1955 until 1981 dims controlled both the House and Senate.

Don't give me that nonsense the parties switched.

[MosesKnows]

Thank you for the correction.

[reasonisfaith]

Nice post and well articulated:

“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.”

[Ditto]

No problem.

[Retain Mike]

Thank you.