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Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States
Chicago Tribune ^ | 06/15/21 | Kevin Freking

Posted on 06/16/2021 6:03:51 AM PDT by Skywise

Under the legislation, the federal holiday would be known as Juneteenth National Independence Day.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 18620619; abolition; emancipation; federalholiday; juneteenth; search; slavery
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To: Vision

They’re dying to replace Christmas with kwazna, or whatever that other made-up holiday is called.


41 posted on 06/16/2021 6:57:01 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Skywise

Yep. They will call the day in June “Independence Day” while calling Independence Day “July 4th”. MARXIST DESTROYERS.


42 posted on 06/16/2021 7:04:08 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: ridesthemiles

The less they work, the less harm they can do.

Let’s give them two weeks off, one week on a month.


43 posted on 06/16/2021 7:05:38 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Correct. Slavery continued on in Biden’s Delaware for some time.

And the Choctow and other slave-owning tribes simply ignored the laws and kept slaves until forced to stop at gunpoint.


44 posted on 06/16/2021 7:11:56 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Jewbacca

For all those who complain that Black History month is the shortest month, we now have 30 days on the calendar:

Black History month - 28 days of February
Martin Luthor King Jr. day
the Juneteenth Holiday


45 posted on 06/16/2021 7:22:42 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: Skywise

Like kwanza, just another made-up “holiday” to celebrate the only part of America’s history the Democrat/communist/Left tolerates.


46 posted on 06/16/2021 7:26:06 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: Skywise

The big question is can white folk eat fried chicken and watermelon or would that be crossing the cultural appropriation line?

However, fried chicken was brought to America by the Scots who, last I heard, were white. So, who’s culturally appropriating now, huh?


47 posted on 06/16/2021 7:27:56 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Skywise

Another fake holiday for the government grifters to take the day off.


48 posted on 06/16/2021 7:36:19 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Red Badger

#14 lucianne cancelled my account because I posted a news story about a person trapped underwater in a ship who was rescued. My crime? I used the title from the article that was deemed too long and the excerpt not short enough.
I emailed why and was told this and they offered to re-open my account. Never went back.


49 posted on 06/16/2021 7:50:49 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Skywise

Well, if it will celebrate the GOP’s efforts in ending slavery and condemn the decades long continuing DNC efforts to block, I could go for it. Lacking that obvious point, bugger off. But, as another reader already pointed out, it’s not like Fed employees do much of value when at their desks.


50 posted on 06/16/2021 7:54:28 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: minnesota_bound

MY crime was I made a disparaging remark about LESBIANS.

The MOD there is a lesbian..................


51 posted on 06/16/2021 7:54:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: Red Badger
MY crime was I made a disparaging remark about LESBIANS.

When I went there, using a different name, I went as a Latinx lesbian, but wasn't there too long before being booted.

52 posted on 06/16/2021 8:12:39 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Red Badger

That site has had many people removed for no reason. People who kept the site going. They were Facebook and Twitter before they came along and cancelled posters. The ad popups were enormous plus many disgusting ones. I learned about ad blockers because of the site.


53 posted on 06/16/2021 8:15:46 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Skywise

This at a time when House of Representatives is in the very act of enslaving the entire nation by spending the US into an unpayable debt in the name of the people they claim to represent.


54 posted on 06/16/2021 8:46:37 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: minnesota_bound
I emailed why and was told this and they offered to re-open my account. Never went back.

I was banned from Breitbart's comments. I e-mailed several times to ask why, what comment might have caused it. They did not give the courtesy of a reply.

55 posted on 06/16/2021 9:11:31 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Wow! You are one of the ORIGINALS!

my deepest respect to you, Louis!

(((HUGS)))


56 posted on 06/16/2021 10:18:18 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: Skywise

I have no problem with the day, other than the title and the purpose of the title, which is to supplant our true Independence Day.

The commemoration of June 19th day should be celebrated but the day’s title should be Emancipation Day, because even though Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation was issued before June 19th 1865, but it was not until June 19th 1865 that the means of securing that emancipation was met with the official end of the civil war.


57 posted on 06/16/2021 10:31:59 AM PDT by Wuli
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