Most do not remember or acknowledge that after all Confederate Slaves were freed, there were slaves held in Northern states until the 13th Amendment was implemented.
Union slave states like Missouri legally held them. But, most Union states turned a blind eye to slave holders. Recent historical analysis shows that Oregon may have had as many as 800 slaves held after Juneteenth.
Juneteenth: When Republicans freed the last of the Democrats slaves.
KInda like that Kwaanza thingy.
What about Indian tribes which kept their slaves?
Among the 27 were Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. States that chimed in later included Iowa, California, and Oregon. Crazy Joe's home State (Delaware) initially rejected the 13th Amendment, and didn't see fit to ratify until the 20th century rolled around...
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Libtards are still racist as we see every single day now.
Juneteenth was derived from an ORDER by a Reconstruction era Union General, a self promoting Gordon Granger in command of the few Union forces in Texas at the time
It was not a law passed, as the 13th Amendment was (albeit passed during the 1865 year- said to be by 27 of the 36 states- a false number btw, since it did not include any Confederate state in 1865 (they had no representation in Congress in 1865) for the post war Nation, by the then Congress. Notably Delaware (Biden’s home state) and Kentucky (Border state) did not pass in their legislatures the 13th Amendment. That is to say they fudged the numbers- there could not have been 27 of 36 states absent KY and Delaware, there being 11 Confederate States at the time who neither passed it in their legislatures and couldn’t have had any voice in Congress.
All that aside— as D’Souza points out— the demonrats of the Union States opposed the 13 th Amendment, so demons of today could hardly celebrate this as a National Holiday vs. the really meaningless propaganda of “juneteenth” order no. 3 of a nobody Union general. Should note also, it took the 13th Amendment to force the Choctaw Nation to release its slaves-Granger was unable (hadn’t the troops).
Would be interesting to ask the brainless demented Biden why his STATE was a SLAVE state throughout the Civil War. Answer: to this day they still are a chattel corporate registry for DEBT slavery for the entire country.
I am of the opinion that if conservatives respond by asserting that the reason for the holiday is to celebrate when the Republicans were able to finally release black slaves from their Democrat masters, that the holiday will soon fall into disuse.
WE, Republicans, should celebrate Juneteenth as the day that Republicans Defeated the Democrats and freed the slaves. This also gave rise to the Democrats forming the Ku Klux Klan. The democrats only gave up the KKK in the 1960-70s with one major exception, senator Byrd
Republicans’ should be hailing this message at every opportunity.
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
Public employees want a paid holiday every month of the year, so another holiday in January, September, or December doesn’t cut it.
Boston MA comes closest with a state holiday on Patriots’ Day (April) and county holidays on Evacuation Day (March, basically St. Patrick’s Day) and Bunker Hill Day (June, now basically Juneteenth, unless the city wants to give employees a four day weekend). Only August is left. Rhode Island has Bay Day (formerly V-J Day or Victory Day) in August.
P.S. The article is from 2021, so this isn’t a live discussion.