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What to know about Juneteenth, the emancipation holiday
NBC News ^ | 6-16-20 | Daniella Silva

Posted on 06/17/2020 7:44:00 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: Ann Archy

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.


21 posted on 06/17/2020 8:21:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Yup. And who was responsible for that freedom?


22 posted on 06/17/2020 8:28:01 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: SJackson

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 ...


23 posted on 06/17/2020 8:31:30 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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To: SJackson

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?


24 posted on 06/17/2020 8:35:26 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: slorunner

“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.


25 posted on 06/17/2020 8:40:00 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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I know nothing about it until now...but I have heard about sjws defacing and wanting to remove Lincoln statues...


26 posted on 06/17/2020 8:49:34 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Shark24

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.


27 posted on 06/17/2020 8:56:29 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SJackson; All

“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


28 posted on 06/17/2020 8:57:30 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: SJackson

Always remember, it will never be enough....right Neville Chamberlain?


29 posted on 06/17/2020 9:06:34 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids
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To: SJackson

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.


30 posted on 06/17/2020 9:09:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SJackson

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.


31 posted on 06/17/2020 9:16:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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What to know that this is another celebration that has been thrust upon us much like Kwanza. It obviously caught the woke administration at the Metropolitan Opera by surprise as on Monday they announced that the opera stream they had scheduled for June 18th, featuring black soprano Leontyne Price, would be extended through June 19th to honor this now momentous date in American History.

ML/NJ

32 posted on 06/17/2020 9:23:42 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: SJackson

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.


33 posted on 06/17/2020 10:20:51 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: xp38

Good stuff. Makes for a great Republican majority now, right?
:)


34 posted on 06/17/2020 10:44:39 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: ml/nj

That’s hilarious.


35 posted on 06/17/2020 10:50:37 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: SJackson

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.


36 posted on 06/17/2020 8:25:17 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: SJackson

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.


37 posted on 06/17/2020 8:29:09 PM PDT by anton
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