Posted on 08/07/2023 3:16:38 PM PDT by thegagline
What doesn’t make sense about it?
Yes, we need at least one national holiday each month. Most immediate is election day, the first Tuesday of each November. Then, maybe St. Patrick’s Day in March, Easter in April, ??? for August, and reaffirm COLUMBUS DAY in October.
VIVEK IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT.
Article 2
Section 1
Clause 5
U S Constitution
You never heard of Juneteenth before it was made a holiday? Okay, probably true of many people, especially younger who didn’t get good US history classes or grew up in the South.
If anything he speaks the truth when it needs to be in thier face
Vivek is such a phony, like with this silly stance that will lead nowhere. Transparent attempt to race-bait, while he hides his support for INCREASING migration to the U.S., and OPPOSES reinstating Trump’s ban on “transgendered” freaks serving in the military. Yet he has so many FReepers fooled.
I grew up in Boston and I was out of school before a lot of PC stuff really started to take over. I just did a quick GoogleTrends search and there was basically zero interest in Juneteenth until 2020.
Juneteenth is an incorrect holiday. Firstly, it’s based upon the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that could have been rescinded with a stroke of a pen by President Andrew Johnson. It’s not based upon law. Secondly, and more importantly, Juneteenth has nothing to do with the end of slavery in the United States. Slavery remained legal in four states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware - Biden should have known better) for another six months. The end of slavery should be celebrated on the anniversary of the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment - December 6th. 1865.
Oops, that should be Thirteen Amendment.
Exactly!
Such a holiday enshrines ignorance of history!
J&R, Crazy Eddie’s , and my favorite, all the long and narrow gray market electronics stores where all of the employees seemed to be related to each other. I miss haggling.
a federal holiday.it was totally local
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
“However, Lincoln’s Birthday celebrates the great emancipator...”
Is Vivek taking orders from Soros????
I’ll celebrate Juneteenth if it’s done correctly. The slaves WERE FREED. Passive voice. They DID NOT FREE themselves. So if we celebrate the Union soldiers who freed them, like my maternal great great grandfather who served in the 69th NY, then I would gladly join that celebration.
Southern boy here....never heard of it until 2020.
Only if framed in this manner....Abraham Lincoln (R) through the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freed the slaves in the Confederacy owned by Democrats.
I'm impressed but Missouri actually outlawed slavery before December 6, 1865. New Jersey had it grandfathered in, so it was actually the 4th state where it was still partially legal with the 16th Amendment was ratified.
FWIW, New Jersey was the only state north of the Mason-Dixon line that didn't vote for Lincoln in either 1860 or 1864. The other two states that voted for McClellan in 1864 were both Union slave states, Kentucky and Delaware.
He’s a flip flopping grifter who was releasing videos celebrating the holiday just a few months ago.
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