Posted on 06/17/2021 9:20:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Always take the opportunity to remind democrats they were defeated in their quest to preserve slavery and it is a great day to celebrate.
You are definitely closer to correct than the fools who think it’s a great time to remind Dems that some citizens called “Democrats” might have wanted to keep slaves.
They are fools to think this is a great thing to celebrate and use against Dem commies. That ship sailed a very, very long time ago. They are not about slaves or blacks, but about pushing communism. Anything that helps put capitalism and the US in a bad light is helpful for them.
In Puritan Massachusetts, people were required to work on Christmas unless it was a Sunday. The Puritans refused to celebrate Christmas because it was a Catholic idea to commemorate the birth of Jesus on December 25.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, but did not die until several hours later, on the morning of April 15.
The advantage of having a holiday in June rather than in December (to commemorate the anniversary of the ratification of the 13th amendment) is that the weather is better in June than in December for most people. January 1 is already a holiday.
Maybe we need to rename the existing holidays: July 4th will be Julyteenth. Hallowe'en will be Octoberteenth. Thanksgiving will be Novemberteenth. And Christmas will be Decemberteenth.
Juneteenth, the day Blacks found out that Republicans ended the enslavement of Blacks by DemocRATS. Why isn’t this the message of every conservative news site and Republican politician?
The problem with that is that January 1st is a holiday already like you said. There's nothing on September 22nd but it's wrong time of the year. Juneteenth is the right time of the year to celebrate it but it does not make sense because we are celebrating something that had occured in Texas.
Juneteenth is the holiday in Texas. Perhaps we should call the national holiday "Emancipation Day".
It was only the slaves in the Galveston area who learned the news about the end of the war (and therefore the end of slavery) on June 19, 1865. Slaves elsewhere in Texas would have remained unaware for days or weeks more. The mean old slaveowners wouldn’t let their slaves go on Facebook.
Juneteenth day? Good grief. Since there’s a holiday for everything now how about we make Tuesday November 8 freedom from Hillary day, in honor of her 2016 defeat. A much more worthy holiday in my opinion.
I understand this is the anniversary of when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas, issued General Order No. 3, which announced that in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, “all slaves are free.”
Why isn’t the national Emancipation Proclamation the day they celebrate?
Thank you! 'Juneteenth' was in no way, shape or form a "national independence day" - as you point out, nation-wide emancipation did NOT occur until months later, when the 13th Amendment was ratified. But I guess 'Juneteenth' may serve as a way to celebrate the "dumb-it-down" Socialist re-write of American history, and 'politically correct' illiteracy in general...
IMHO, your idea is WAY too good, to wait for official government action! I will personally start using your suggested holiday names immediately - just to piss off my liberal friends & neighbors...
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Maybe that’s why ‘Tax deadline’ is April 15th.....................
Africanization continues.
The progressives are scared to death they will lose the negro vote. They pander to the negros unabashedly
The colored people in question can be considered as professionals. They are make a living being colored
Supposedly because not ALL slaves were freed by the EP, but only those slaves in the rebellious states.
Delaware (Biden’s home), Maryland , Kentucky and Missouri were slaves states that did not join the Confederacy...................
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Thanks for that
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