Posted on 06/15/2021 3:14:17 PM PDT by janetjanet998
CNN) The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
The legislation has gained momentum since the massive Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd last year and the Democrats' takeover of the White House and Congress.
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well there was a navy ship named after him so ...who knows?
Or Emancipation Day
I want a day recognizing all the White Soldiers who fought and died freeing the slaves. (For all the damn' good that did our country ... just look at how they act and behave now.)
It’s on a Saturday this year so of course companies make ot a 3 day weekend
“It glorifies imprecision and the sloppy use of language.”
You talkin bout Ebonics?
It’s been a thing a Texas since the 1800s.
Basically a picnic day
Translation: “Freaknik” , the worst TNB, that lasts an entire month!
WHAT White Privilege?????!!!!!
Memorial Day
More racism from government.
Just what America needs, another federal holiday. More folks getting paid for not working.
Makes sense for Texas. Its a joke to make it a federal holiday.
you would think, that a more intelligent name would have been thought up... But then I recall a billboard I see daily here commuting to work from Western Michigan University... Displays some goofy looking middle aged black dude with big letters “Be You Here”... It honestly took me a half dozen times passing it to finally understand what it meant.
Juneteenth to celebrate the end of Slavery... Yawn...
Last year, Gov. “Blackface” Northam signed a bill repealing the Virginia Commonwealth’s longstanding Lee-Jackson Day. It was replaced with the completely unnecessary Election Day holiday, another day off for shiftless Democrat voters.
Tell Seattle to stop celebrating Mardi Gras as well.
Nope. If blacks get "Juneteenth" to celebrate their freedom from slavery riot to get more free stuff, then I want a holiday specifically to celebrate the white soldiers who freed them.
Fair's fair.
Okay
Hasn't that been the case for the most part since the start of the COVID lockdowns?
Another day off for the folks in Government offices. That’s one fewer day they can screw us.
I would be happy if the only worked 10 days a year.
Republicans are retards. This gives the bad guys yet another excuse to “celebrate” annually how America is a fundamentally evil country that is permanently and forever stained by the original sin of slavery.
Who do you think you are?
Without slaves, there would be no elite class.
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