Posted on 06/17/2020 7:44:00 AM PDT by SJackson
This year, Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S., will be celebrated by Black Americans amid a national reckoning on race.
Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, will be celebrated by Black Americans this Friday amid a national reckoning on race prompted by the police killing of George Floyd and the sweeping demonstrations that followed.
As hundreds of thousands have protested nationwide and calls for police reform and for an examination of the nation’s history of racial inequality have grown — including rising pressure to take down Confederate statues — some have said that June 19 should be recognized as a national holiday.
President Donald Trump was criticized recently for deciding to hold a public rally on Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence in American history, in 1921, when a racist white mob killed hundreds of Black residents. Trump later changed the rally to Saturday, June 20.
As June 19 approaches, here’s what you need to know about the holiday.
What's Juneteenth?
On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived with Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, and announced to enslaved Africans Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
At the time Lincoln issued the proclamation, there were minimal Union troops in Texas to enforce it, according to Juneteenth.com. But with the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee two months earlier and the arrival of Granger’s troops, the Union forces were now strong enough to enforce the proclamation.
The holiday, which gets its named from the combination of June and Nineteenth, is also known as Emancipation Day, Juneteenth Independence Day and Black Independence Day.
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Slaves in those northern states allowing slavery had to wait nearly six months, 12-6-1865 to be freed. If I were to suggest slaves in the Confederacy were freed nearly 6 months earlier than in northern slave states like Joe Biden's home state of Delaware, I can't imagine what I'd be called. I'm already not black. Probably a deplorable, or just not very good. And he'd promise to change all the history books.
Interesting that NBC thinks an event about the end of slavery would only be celebrated by black Americans.
They should celebrate the date that slavery was outlawed in New York. What! There were slaves in New York?, Yep. And how about the day slaves were freed in Africa? When will that day happen?
I just want to know Where they lived after they were FREE?? Did they stay on the PLANTATIONS??
Oh, and how did they buy groceries and feed themselves??
You also need to know that Juneteenth is the day that the watermelons are officially good. That’s one of the things I learned from growing up in Texas, where we have some of the best watermelons.
Yes. And remember New York City tried to secede in early 1861. An independent nation to be thrive on commerce. A portion of upper New York state declared independence in 1777 and didn’t enter the US, as a part of NY state, till 1791. And they were the 11th state to ratify the Constitution, proposing another 30 or so amendments. Then there were the draft riots. NY has a long history of riots.
It sounds like dialect - ethnic dialect from a minstrel show at that.
Do we really want to embrace stereotypical word corruption dating back to slavery and Jim Crow days?
How is that going to look 18 months from now when there is yet again a need for a fresh grievance?
We are told, over and over, that slavery never really ended.
So why should this day be celebrated?
Consistency or logic are notably absent on the Left.
So the Army can enforce a change to a provision in the Constitution?
I can see why today’s Left would celebrate that.
Rhode Island at one time was the largest port for slave ships.
The actual date of emancipation in the United States was December 7, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment went into force. This was the day celebrated each year by Frederick Douglass, who surely knew what he was doing.
The law was passed to protect organized crime from armed victims.
I think it is wonderful that Juneteenth is going to be widely celebrated.
It should be a day of thanks by Blacks to all the Whites who died for their freedom in the Civil War.
They should visit all cemeteries and place wreathes and flowers and take up collections to pay reparations to the families of all Union Soldiers who died to make up for their loss.
bttt
I have one last bag of collard greens in the freezer. May just have to fry up some chicken and have that on the side. Or am I not allowed such fare?
Just swap it for the MLK holiday recently (relatively) added to US holidays.
I don’t recall there ever being a civil war. Do you see any statues to the dead or heroes? Nah.
I mean - we’d see movies about slavery and stuff if it existed right?
Nope.
I am not getting on board with this. Stop the insanity!
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