Posted on 06/17/2021 9:20:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
KEY POINTS President Joe Biden is set to sign a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are slated to deliver remarks in the East Room, according to the White House.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, and the first new one since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
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President Joe Biden is set to sign on Thursday a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
The 3:30 p.m. ET signing event at the White House comes two days before Juneteenth itself, which falls on June 19 each year. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to deliver remarks in the East Room, according to the White House.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
Juneteenth marks the date that the last enslaved African Americans were granted their freedom. On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
The holiday legislation passed this week with overwhelming support in both chambers of Congress. The Senate approved the bill unanimously Tuesday night, and the House passed it in a 415-14 vote. The only votes against the bill came from Republicans.
On the House floor before the vote, some GOP lawmakers complained about the name of the holiday, and others expressed concern about the cost of giving the federal workforce another day off. Some also railed against Democrats for pushing the bill to a vote without first allowing committees to examine the legislation and offer amendments.
Still, most House Republicans, even those who objected to parts of the bill, ended up voting for it.
The Juneteenth legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Edward Markey, D-Mass. The House version, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was co-sponsored by 166 lawmakers.
The 14 no votes were:
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
I had, but then I live in The South.....................
Eight shot and killed in Chicago in one day this week. How many over this holiday weekend?
And gunfire...
Yes, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware were slave states that did not secede..............
To celebrate, I am hereby releasing all American blacks from their mental plantations.
That might be the best part of it; it's a celebration of ignorance.
Kowtowing to blacks, in the hope that they will remain peaceful, in the same way they cower to Muzzies.
You might find a couple of Conservative Republicans in the list of the 14 in the House that voted against the Juneteenth Bill.
Actually, as I recall the story, in the Emancipation Declaration Lincoln only “freed” the slaves in states that seceded, not the slaves in border states that did not secede.
A holiday celebrating when the whites and some blacks freed the slaves sold by the blacks.
When do the slave freeing families get reparations for the lives lost?
Eliminate Martin Luther King Day, they (BLM and others) don’t honor what he represented anyway.
Cinco de Mayo basically became a “holiday” which was an excuse for restaurants in the U.S. to sell margaritas and tacos. Good marketing strategy. From what I understand, they celebrate Mexican Independence Day on a different date, not on Cinco de Mayo like many Americans assume.
Can we get a holiday from all the black violence? That would be a nice change.
It’s worse than just ignorance: it is ‘arrogance’ the outrage of an increasingly narcissistic culture that cannot endure even the slightest hint of inequality of any kind.
Some negro in Texas found out he was free in June, though slavery ended on January 1st.
So, a holiday for a misinformed negro.
This is stupid. Juneteenth isn’t even emancipation day. Juneteenth was a day, a couple of years after emancipation, when the news finally arrived at a community of slaves around Houston.
Shhhhh...please don’t give them any ideas :-(
Let’s add the ATF and the EPA to that list.
Trust me, this is the forerunner to replacing Independence Day, July 4th, with this.
It’s coming.
mexicans do not celebrate cinco de mayo, just white people do as a reason to get drunk.
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