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House to vote Wednesday on making Juneteenth a federal holiday
TheHill ^ | 06/16/2021 | MARTY JOHNSON AND SCOTT WONG

Posted on 06/16/2021 12:26:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has announced that the House will vote on making Juneteenth a federal holiday on Wednesday.

The bill passed by unanimous consent in the Senate on Tuesday night, and it seems likely to pass the House, which would send the legislation creating the federal holiday to President Biden's desk.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 18620619; abolition; blacksupremecy; emancipation; federal; house; juneteenth; pander; pandering; raceobsession; vote
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To: 98charlie

I guess my humor was not clear—having a holiday where Evil Whitey has to slave away and the Royal Black folk get it off...

Of course no matter how much I ridicule the left, eventually they prove they are wackier than even I thought they would be...


41 posted on 06/16/2021 1:37:30 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More pandering to the black community


42 posted on 06/16/2021 1:38:17 PM PDT by 1956tbyrd
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will someone please explain to me how you come up with a name like juneteenth? Maybe it was the same person that invented kwansaa and all of those names like Shaquanda or Quinquanda.


43 posted on 06/16/2021 1:38:20 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: GreyFriar

“We can’t bring back President Lincoln’s Birthday as a federal holiday...”


Lincoln’s birthday was never a federal holiday. It was only a holiday in most, but not all states. No prizes for guessing the states it wasn’t a holiday in.

I confess I do not know when slavery officially ended in the U.S. I know the 13th Amendment did end it, but I don’t know whether or not if all Union slave states, MO, KY, DE, MD, WVA had freed their slaves prior to the 13th’s taking effect.

Logically it would make more sense to celebrate when slavery actually ended rather than when some Texas slaves learned about it, but logic is not really part of the process, is it.


44 posted on 06/16/2021 1:40:16 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

You’re correct on Lincoln’s birthday not being a nation holiday, that was President Washington’s birthday that was. I grew up in Indiana where we had Lincoln’s birthday as a school holiday, since he spent his youth here in Indiana. I think Illinois, back then in the 50s and 60s also had Lincoln’s birthday as a state holiday.


45 posted on 06/16/2021 1:54:10 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ok. How many readers does Time have?

4? 8?


46 posted on 06/16/2021 1:56:48 PM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

another federal holiday??


47 posted on 06/16/2021 2:07:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Congress Passes Law To Recognize Juneteenth, The Day Republicans Freed All The Democrats’ Slaves!
6/16/2021, 12:26:25 PM ·

Posted by BipolarBob ·

Babylon Bee ^ | 6/16/2021 | Babylon Bee


48 posted on 06/16/2021 2:17:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Looks like we're gonna need a lot more holidays. Note that the day is Texas isn't the oldest.

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South Carolina: January 1, 1866

Alabama: January 1, 1866

Missouri: January 14, 1865

Louisiana: January 17, 1865

Mississippi: May 8, 1865

Georgia: May 29, 1865

Florida: May 20, 1865

North Carolina: January 1, 1865

Texas June 19, 1865

Kentucky: August 8, 1865

49 posted on 06/16/2021 2:24:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: BBQToadRibs2
The irony of making Juneteenth a federal holiday!
50 posted on 06/16/2021 2:25:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Except it’s not a real holiday. January 1, 1863 is the real holiday and is the day freed blacks originally celebrated in much of the South.


51 posted on 06/16/2021 2:25:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
And it passed with unanimous assent. Glad I am no longer a Republican.

Popularly elected pubbies over folded on Motor Voter too. We can thank them in no small part for the 2020 mess. But hey, I'm sure their support for motor voter helped them get reelected.

52 posted on 06/16/2021 2:33:08 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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bump


53 posted on 06/17/2021 6:36:00 PM PDT by foreverfree
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