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Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year
Chicago Defender ^ | June 5 2020 | Elizabeth Lampkin

Posted on 07/01/2020 5:22:03 PM PDT by rintintin

July 4th or Independence Day is a federal holiday set aside to observe the signing of the Declaration of Independence, giving birth to what we know as the United States of America as an independent nation. It is commemorated with fireworks, family gatherings, and cookouts. However, while America was celebrating newfound independence, blacks were still enslaved. Every year many African-Americans celebrate this holiday in some way and overlook June 19th, affectionately known as Juneteenth.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 18620619; abolition; chicago; emancipation; illinois; juneteenth
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As Mark Steyn said on Tucker tonight, the Republican drive to make Juneteenth a national holiday will obliterate the Fourth of July

Senate Republicans are not defenders of America

1 posted on 07/01/2020 5:22:03 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Senate Republicans are mostly on the other side.


2 posted on 07/01/2020 5:23:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rintintin

Juneteenth was only ever a thing in Texas.


3 posted on 07/01/2020 5:23:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rintintin

Watermelon


4 posted on 07/01/2020 5:28:01 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rintintin

Juneteeth IS a Texas tradition since 1866.
It should remain a Texas Holiday!
IMHO


5 posted on 07/01/2020 5:28:08 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: rintintin

These dumbasses don’t realize that if it weren’t for July 4th their black asses would still be in servitude.


6 posted on 07/01/2020 5:30:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Why do Democrats support terrorism?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Truman Day is a commemorative holiday to celebrate the birth of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. It is celebrated May 8 in Missouri as a state holiday.

It’s just for Missourians, no need to push it onto the rest of the country for political purposes.


7 posted on 07/01/2020 5:32:15 PM PDT by MrHead (Can we just skip ahead to Idiocracy?)
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To: rintintin

Agreed. Do not give one inch to these pathetic absurd jackasses.

“Affectionately”? How about “STUPIDLY called ‘Juneteenth’”.


8 posted on 07/01/2020 5:34:00 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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“As history wrote it, Juneteenth (June 19th, 1865, 1866) is the day that marked the end of slavery for all slaves, or the day slaves were told they were free.”

No. This, historically, was the day the last slaves were freed in the Confederate States of America. Do not attempt to look up this reference to “Confederate States of America” in history books. Those references were removed some time back.

Slaves in the United States of America were held in - well, held in slavery - until sometime later.

9 posted on 07/01/2020 5:34:10 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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At some point in the last three weeks, Microsoft updated my Outlook 2016 Calendar to show Juneteenth as a holiday. I permanently deleted them.


10 posted on 07/01/2020 5:35:48 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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Sure. Celebrate Juneteenth. And thank a Republican.


11 posted on 07/01/2020 5:38:05 PM PDT by marron
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“Hey, can somebody fish up the stock photo we use for stories about blacks?”


12 posted on 07/01/2020 5:39:37 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: rintintin

Women couldn’t vote till 1920. Look for feminists to call for an appropriate superseding holiday.


13 posted on 07/01/2020 5:43:03 PM PDT by Borges
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To: rintintin

ENOUGH!


14 posted on 07/01/2020 5:44:52 PM PDT by richardtavor
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Question for you - Have you considered having your at least half of your comments be attacks on DemocRATS and DemocRAT ideas? The great bulk of your comments seem to be attacks on, snark about and/or attempts to demoralize Republicans. You’re not a troll by any chance are you?

I’ll have to keep an eye out to see if I’m mistaken...or NOT mistaken.


15 posted on 07/01/2020 5:46:56 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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I’m glad Tucker Carlson called out those two “conservative” bozos who are pushing to make “Juneteenth” a holiday and get rid of Columbus Day. If this happens, it will be seen as a major victory for Antifa/BLM.

And they won’t be satisfied. They will then demand that May Day be made a national holiday.


16 posted on 07/01/2020 5:48:39 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: VeniVidiVici

If the American Colonies had remained a part of the British Empire, they would have been freed in 1833.


17 posted on 07/01/2020 5:51:24 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: House Atreides

I’ll have to keep an eye out “
You sound like a self appointed a Middle School hall monitor.


18 posted on 07/01/2020 5:52:00 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: rintintin

I think I’ll pass on celebrating that holiday. Bring on the 4th!


19 posted on 07/01/2020 5:59:10 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: House Atreides
The great bulk of your comments seem to be attacks on, snark about and/or attempts to demoralize Republicans.

Nothing is more demoralizing to Republican voters than to see their champions go back on their promises once they are elected and safely in office. And it is especially aggravating to see "conservatives" from solid Red states like Oklahoma and Indiana supinely caving in to the demands of the Marxist Left. As the country-western singer Jim Nesbitt has noted,

They'll promise you this, promise you that,
But when they get in, they'll leave you flat.
Won't even know you.

20 posted on 07/01/2020 6:00:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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