Posted on 06/19/2022 5:00:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA (Reuters) - With street parties, the trumpets and drums of marching bands, speeches and a few political rallies, people across the United States marked Juneteenth this weekend, a jubilee commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans.
Events started on Friday and continued through Sunday featuring concerts at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, freedom walks in Galveston, Texas, and jazz music in New York City's Harlem neighborhood.
"This is America's holiday, not just African Americans' holiday," said Gerald Griggs, the Georgia state president of the NAACP civil rights organization. "It's the true Independence Day, the day when all Americans were free."
In 2021, President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday, and most states and many companies give it recognition and hold celebrations.
In a proclamation on Friday, Biden remarked on the 10 people slain in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.
"We must stand together against white supremacy and show that bigotry and hate have no safe harbor in America," the proclamation said.
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Sorry. I’m celebrating Father’s Day today. A real American holiday that didn’t have a contest for someone to come up with the dumbest name possible for it.
Negro fatigue article 6,377,283…
Celebrating the day that REPUBLICANS freed the slaves from their dim-0 overseers.
Most of them probably believe just the opposite.
Juneteenth is a celebration of the general inequality that can’t be remidied.
Kissing black ass is a politically induced feelgood palative
America must promote the Afro-Heritage minority-minority that sees the light of liberty and freedom
I’m celebrating the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Wait, so slavery IS illegal in the USA? Never would have known listening to democrats and their media.
Are they going to also celebrate the coming re-enslavement of all humanity in the western world?
Everything, I mean everything is black or gay worship. Instead of masks on our faces, we need earplugs to blot it out.
Will any of these celebrations turn into rioting, shooting?
Today is Father’s Day. That’s worth celebrating.
Juneteenff is just another of those White Guilt days.
That’s a given.
Most of them, I suspect, will end in rioting and looting.
And blood will be on the hands of white virtue signaling politicians.
I’m so tired of it.
Not only are we the majority, but we pretty much created and invented everything.
If one goes by tv, you’d think we just sit around reading Mein Kampf and sexually harassing minority women…
Slavery did not end in the USA until December 6, 1865.
“This is America’s holiday, not just African Americans’ holiday,” said Gerald Griggs, the Georgia state president of the NAACP civil rights organization. “It’s the true Independence Day, the day when all Americans were free.”
I guess Martin Luther King day wasn’t good enough. Look at that last sentence in the excerpt. What does that mean (rhetorical question)?
Negro de Mayo. The ferals don’t need a drinking holiday in a summer month. Anything could spark trouble.
Some stupid white teacher who lives down the road for me is organizing a Juneteenth celebration.
I’ve seen where some blacks are saying this is not a white holiday and not to show up.
I sure hope she doesn’t get beat up and raped.
How ironic that today is Father’s Day as well as Juneteenth. While all of America celebrates and honors their fathers, those who celebrate Juneteenth ignore their fathers.
Oh, the irony! This “Juneteenth “ holiday is on Father’s Day. Most Negroes couldn’t find their father with a bloodhound.
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