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.
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...
;^)
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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