[ealgeone]

Why not the actual date of the Emancipation Proclamation??

[minnesota_bound]

Yeah another paid holiday for gov’t workers while they destroy private business and ruin 10’s of millions of people finances.

[Magnum44]

:)

[xkaydet65]

If it is to be celebrated then it must be celebrated with parades and festiviyies honoring the young white men in Blue who actually did the work of freeing the slaves. The freedmen were the recipients, not the doers.