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Posted on 06/19/2026 7:41:32 AM PDT by rktman
Juneteenth is a powerful reminder that the Democrats lost their war for slavery.
Yes, the glorious news of Republican President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation finally made its two-year trek to the great state of Texas. On June 19, 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 and proclaimed, in part: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
WHO IS JUNETEENTH FOR?
This freedom was made possible by whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics who fought for the Union. (Of course, all these groups also fought for the failed Confederacy.) Juneteenth doesn’t belong to one particular group. It belongs to every American. The abolition of slavery began the dismantling of destructive and artificial color barriers. It would take over a century for further attacks on human dignity in the form of “black codes” and Jim Crow laws to be burned on the trash heap of Democratic Party history. Anti-miscegenation laws, which made marriages like mine illegal (white wife, brown husband), were also used to prevent “transracial” adoptions (like the multi-color family of fifteen I grew up in).
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What’s a juneteenth?
Fed workers get more done when they are not at work than when they are.
I think it's a new number system base. Like base 13.
Another national holiday.
“This freedom was made possible by whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics”
The legions of Asians and Hispanics that fought for the Union?
The REAL slaves are us the taxpayers. See tagline.
Plus, it's a nice dig of the Democrat party.
I recall being in Gettysburg years ago, at a small theater where a guy played the part of Lincoln. A woman in the audience just could not believe that Lincoln was a Republican. She was willing to argue the point. She was convinced Lincoln had to be a Democrat. Talk about dumbassery.
Fly the Stars and Bars today !!
Soon we’ll have Januaryteenth, Februaryteenth, Marchteenth, Aprilteenth, Mayteenth, Julyteenth .........
If Gen. Granger said that, he lied.
That is NOT what the Emancipation Proclamation said.
On one side of my family is a plantation slaveowner, and also one of four brothers (not related to the slaveowner) who fought in the war, two each for each side, and my ancestor fought against the slaveowning side. On the other side of my family is an Irishman who came off the boat and immediately joined the Union army.
Do the two who fought against slaveowners balance out the slaveowner? (Doesn’t matter, I have four strikes against me, I’m old, white, Christian, and straight. I’m not bothered by the antagonism; God is my judge, not anyone else.)
Plus, it’s a nice dig of the Democrat party.
0.001% of the population will see it that way.
As previously noted...history is long forgotten.
The Ides of March, celebrating the death of Julius Ceasar?
This!! 👏👏👍
All other nations speak with Unity on their lips and the devil in their heart; there is more racism in the pinky of the UK and Germany et al than the whole of America.
In this country, we WORK on our imperfections. The world (and the left in the US) sees that work, and weaponizes it as mental trap against us. Men of good standing and intellectual rigor laugh in the face of this onslaught. Weaker men succumb.
Just look at all the World Cup-destined foreigners - of all nationalities and colors - EMBRACE America. It turns out we’re not the devil as their media and leaders portray us. America is a melting pot - not like the left wants, but the way God wants.
This distinctly American virtue was encapsulated perfectly in 2020 by Condoleezza Rice - not a favorite around here - who schooled a loser at CBS carrying globalist water on this topic, effectively saying the George Floyd-fueled riots are indicative of American subhumanism :
Well, I’ve always thought that America’s greatest strength is that we are a country where you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, and where, despite our painful history, we’ve worked harder and harder every day, brick by brick, to build a more perfect union for all of us. And I would say to those, particularly in places like China and Russia and Iran, who may want to use this for propaganda, let’s not be absurd.
This is not Tiananmen Square where you’ve mowed down people who disagreed with the government. This is not the invasion of Crimea where you took land from your neighbor. This is not the Green Revolution in Iran where you killed people wantonly because they wouldn’t agree with the theocratic government.
Rice continued, “And I would even say to our friends abroad, in places like Europe, where I’m seeing demonstrations in support of what is happening here, thank you for your support, but please look in the mirror. Please ask yourself, in countries in Europe and countries all across the world, what are you doing about racial and ethnic inequality in your own circumstances? America has gotten better because we have been willing to confront our problems. And we’re going to confront our problems again. We’re confronting them now.
“But I really don’t need to be lectured by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about peaceful protest when they have themselves used their own force just because people wanted to criticize the government. That is not what is happening here,” she added.
Will I be celebrating Juneteenth with fireworks, or parades, or sitting with my black friends? No, but then I don’t eat pasta on Columbus Day or visit DC on Presidents Day.
But I also wont be a Useful Idiot for the left, who laugh when conservatives bitch about a holiday that is really about American Exceptionalism.
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