Biden to sign Juneteenth bill, creating first new federal holiday in decades

CNBC ^ | June 17, 2021 | Kevin Breuninger

[dfwgator]

All because Trump had a rally on that date, and somebody noticed it. Then all these people who never even heard of Juneteenth before called Trump racist because of it.

[rdl6989]

I assume this won’t take effect until next year.

[Perseverando]

Conservative Republicans: Trying to get blacks off the Democrat plantation since 1861.

[Principled]

A day to commemorate the Republicans defeating the Democrats.

[ßuddaßudd]

starting this monday? goodie

[bk1000]

Let’s pick off the scab of slavery every year from now on. It does not serve the democrats for any healing to occur.

[Vaduz]

Is Juneteenth before or after eleventeen or tenteen what will they think of next.

[Red Badger]

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington

[1956tbyrd]

If we pander enough to the black community, maybe they will like us White folks.

[MinorityRepublican]

I read a little about the holiday. It is a state holiday in Texas because Union troops freed slaves in a specific town there.

Emancipation Proclamation should be a federal holiday on September 22 because Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves. Juneteenth is a specific holiday in Texas that celebrates an event that happened locally.

If this makes sense.

[Perseverando]

Celebrating Juneteenth this year?

Don’t forget to thank a Republican (preferably a Conservative Republican.)

[Beagle8U]

Yay! More days off for worthless gov workers.

[joshua c]

given the LEFT’s complete abandonment of MLK, this holiday will soon be just a day off

[PGR88]

Federal Workers do not need another day off.

[Pocketdoor]

We need to embrace this and turn it into a learning moment. Like you said... The day Republicans freed the last of democrats slaves.

[Red Badger]

Au Contraire! Let’s pay them to STAY HOME!..................

[hanamizu]

I assume this won’t take effect until next year.

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I believe it takes effect tomorrow. Banks will close early, federal workers get the day off. I for one love its official name “Juneteenth National Independence Day” /s

What will be considered the standard for celebrating it? Fireworks? Fried Chicken?

[the OlLine Rebel]

STUPID illiterate name for a holiday, that doesn’t even mark when something actually happened. It’s a local thing just like the stupid Cinco deMayo. Exploded into a huge National thing in just a couple years.

And al” to celebrate RIOTERS.

Sick of this PC Shiite.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Two black federal holidays. Zero for other races.