It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves held by the Democrats.
The holiday nobody ever heard about before this year.
Blacks are slaves to the demorap party plantation.
Many new holidays were created during the French Revolution as well. The reign of terror was hectic and the rigors of non stop guillotine exhausting. A day off was really needed.
Juneteenth will give white liberals a chance to self flagellate and beg for forgiveness. Blacks can enjoy seeing white people grovel.
Like hot dogs and hamburgers are associated with July 4th picnics, I thing pigs feet should be the food associated Juneteenth.
Public workers already have too many holiday days off. I think the Thanksgiving holiday should be abolished. Celebrating the survival of white colonists is an insult to native Americans. It has to go.
I’m good with replacing MLK holiday with ‘Junteenth’, or Emancipation Day in its place.
I’m good with replacing MLK holiday with ‘Junteenth’, or Emancipation Day in its place.
How about Juneteenth and old time slavery. Slavery didn’t end in the US on Juneteenth, only in Texas which was the last state in the Confederacy for emancipation to be enforced. Slavery existed in the five northern slave states for nearly six more months when the 13th Amendment was ratified. If you want to celebrate the end of slavery in the US it should be Decemberteenth, December 6.
[Article - Ryan Bomberger] Although limited in scope, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation set slaves free in states that had seceded from the Union. Many don’t realize Lincoln had issued an emancipation decree that set slaves in our nation’s capital free nearly eight months earlier. On April 16, 1862, The Compensated Emancipation Act abolished slavery in Washington D.C.; today it’s celebrated as “Emancipation Day.”
This is historically inaccurate and modestly incomplete.
Lincoln's EP of 1 Jan 1863 declared slaves free, but did not set anyone free. They were set free by the Union Army, which did a fine job. It declared as free those slaves in states, or parts of states, identified by Lincoln as being in rebellion against the United States on 1 Jan 1863. There is a significant distinction between states that had seceded, and states determined by Lincoln to be in a state of rebellion as of 1 Jan 1863.
Lincoln did not issue an emancipation decree for Washington D.C. on April 16, 1862. After deliberate delay, he signed a piece of federal legislation, An Act for the release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, on April 16, 1862. It only freed those slaves who remained in the district after the bill was signed.
The Senate bill passed the House 92-38 on Friday, April 11, 1862. [CG 37-2 pp. 1648-1649].
The bill was laid before Lincoln on Monday, April 14, 1862. The bill became effective upon President Lincoln's signature, which he delayed until Wednesday, April 16, 1862, as explained by Browning.
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, edited by T. C. Pease and J. G. Randall, Vol. 1, Springfield, 1925, p. 541.
Monday Apl 14, 1862 In Senate. At night went to Presidents to lay before him the bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Had a talk with him. He told me he would sign the bill, but would return it with a special message recommending a supplemental bill making savings in behalf of infants &c and also some other amendments.He further told me he regretted the bill had been passed in its present form—that it should have been for gradual emancipation—that now families would at once be deprived of cooks, stable boys &c and they of their protectors without any provision for them. He further told me that he would not sign the bill
beforeuntil Wednesday—That old Gov Wickliffe had two family servants with him who were sickly, and who would not be benefitted by freedom, and wanted time to remove them, but could not get them out of the City until Wednesday, and that the Gov had come frankly to him and asked for time. He added to me that this was told me in the strictest confidence
It worked sort of like gradual emancipation, but faster. It caused owners to remove their property from the District. Lincoln gave that old Gov Wickliffe an extra few days to remove the family "servants."