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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to ‘cancel Juneteenth’
The New York Post ^ | 08/07/2023 | Victor Nave

Posted on 08/07/2023 3:16:38 PM PDT by thegagline

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called for replacing Juneteenth with Election Day as a national holiday, deriding the celebration of the end of slavery in the US as “useless.”

“Single day voting, on Election Day,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur and longshot 2024 White House contender proposed in a speech before Iowa voters on Saturday. “We will make Election Day a holiday in the United States of America, so there’s no complaints about it.” <

However, Ramaswamy told the crowd that in order to make room for another federal holiday, one of the current 11 would need to be removed from the calendar.

“Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless ones we made up,” Ramaswamy said. “You can’t have everything be a holiday, but we’ll cancel one of the other ones and make Election Day a holiday.”

In 2021, President Biden signed legislation declaring June 19, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday.

The celebration commemorates the day in 1865 that federal troops began enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 in Galveston, Texas.

It was the first federal holiday to be added to the calendar since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

Ramaswamy added that he believes Juneteenth was declared a holiday with a “cultural gun to our head” following nationwide rioting over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020. *** Ramaswamy added. “And I think, let’s be honest, the reason for making that a holiday was under political duress, as a political hostage situation on the back of the death of George Floyd. And I think that that is not how we create holidays. We should not create holidays with a cultural gun to our head. And that’s what happened.” ***

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; juneteenth; mlk; month; vivek
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To: Sacajaweau

What doesn’t make sense about it?


21 posted on 08/07/2023 3:49:45 PM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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To: Brian Griffin

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.


22 posted on 08/07/2023 3:49:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: thegagline

VIVEK IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT.

Article 2

Section 1

Clause 5

U S Constitution


23 posted on 08/07/2023 3:51:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: escapefromboston

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.


24 posted on 08/07/2023 3:51:22 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: thegagline

If anything he speaks the truth when it needs to be in thier face


25 posted on 08/07/2023 3:52:36 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: thegagline

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.


26 posted on 08/07/2023 3:54:42 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Reno89519

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.


27 posted on 08/07/2023 3:57:02 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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.


28 posted on 08/07/2023 3:57:31 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

Oops, that should be Thirteen Amendment.


29 posted on 08/07/2023 4:04:18 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

Exactly!
Such a holiday enshrines ignorance of history!


30 posted on 08/07/2023 4:06:01 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Brian Griffin
As a fan of B&H Photo

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.

31 posted on 08/07/2023 4:06:43 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Sacajaweau

a federal holiday.it was totally local


32 posted on 08/07/2023 4:10:55 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ridesthemiles
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 U S Constitution

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

33 posted on 08/07/2023 4:14:38 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Brian Griffin

“However, Lincoln’s Birthday celebrates the great emancipator...”


Lincoln’s birthday is not now nor has ever been a national holiday. When the idea came around to move Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in February, many thought that both Presidents’ birthdays would be celebrated, hence ‘President’s Day’. But the official name of the February holiday in ‘Washington’s Birthday’.


34 posted on 08/07/2023 4:22:19 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: thegagline

Is Vivek taking orders from Soros????


35 posted on 08/07/2023 4:30:01 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: thegagline

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.


36 posted on 08/07/2023 4:47:25 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Reno89519

Southern boy here....never heard of it until 2020.


37 posted on 08/07/2023 4:47:26 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: xkaydet65

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.


38 posted on 08/07/2023 4:49:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: reg45
Slavery remained legal in four states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware - Biden should have known better) for another six months.

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.

39 posted on 08/07/2023 5:26:50 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: thegagline

He’s a flip flopping grifter who was releasing videos celebrating the holiday just a few months ago.


40 posted on 08/07/2023 7:19:29 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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