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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I’ve read a few stories of just that Ann.
When the slaves were freed, many stayed on the plantations as they were uneducated and knew little else.
Many wondered about in starving conditions as they did not know how to take care of themselves.
Those who were educated made out better but most were taken advantage of and many of those by carpetbaggers.
Yup. And who was responsible for that freedom?
What a coincidence ... the ‘Stars and Bars’ is flying on my flagpole and will be until next Sunday when another flag is put up. Funny how that works out ...
I know this about Juneteenth: I could care less about it. I’ve lived many years without knowing about it, without knowing about Wiccan holidays, without knowing about a lot of obscure stuff. Juneteenth was just dredged up from obscurity because it had something to do with black history. Next, we’ll be making a big deal about a completely made up holiday, Kwanzaa. What’s after that?
“It should be a day of thanks by Blacks to all the Whites who died for their freedom in the Civil War.”
We have all heard it said that Lincoln and the north “fought to free the slaves” and, indeed, it is a glorious sentiment.
If it is true, we should be able to read Lincoln’s first inaugural address and find where Lincoln said the coming conflict would be about freedom for the slaves.
I can’t find anything like that in the text.
What I do find is Lincoln saying he would fight to seize weapons of mass destruction - I meant to say, fight to collect taxes.
I know nothing about it until now...but I have heard about sjws defacing and wanting to remove Lincoln statues...
from leftist wiki....
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of African-Americans, northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, and farmers. The GOP was pro-business, and it supported banks, the gold standard, railroads and high tariffs; the party opposed the expansion of slavery.
“Interesting holiday, Juneteenth, 6-18-1865, the date all slaves in the former Confederacy were now free.”
Will descendants of slave owners be reimbursed by the government since they paid for the slaves? WHITE REPARATIONS! /sarc
Always remember, it will never be enough....right Neville Chamberlain?
Even middle-aged elementary school teachers who live with their cats don’t celebrate Kwanzaa any more. “Juneteenth” is a chance to create a new fake holiday. Origin of Juneteenth? President Trump scheduled a campaign rally on June 19th, so the Woke Brigade frantically searched for anything in history that had happened on that date.
While the South was now free of slavery, Slavery continued in the North until Dec, 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified. Eight months after the end of the war.
ML/NJ
Juneteenth - when blacks were freed from slavery. A great day.
Still waiting for the day when blacks will be set free from the Democrat Party plantation.
Good stuff. Makes for a great Republican majority now, right?
:)
That’s hilarious.
What a stupid holiday, considering that black folk are still in rat party chains to this day. Never heard of it before last week, will ignore it henceforth.
What I know about Juneteenth is that every year they had it here there were beatings, shootings, theft, and vandalism and all of the perps were black. then they eliminated alcohol, put it in a secure fenced in location, added lots of detail officers inside and at the gates, called it a family festival and it all stopped.
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