[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.

[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.

[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.

[escapefromboston]

More sniveling wormy behavior from pathetic republicans in their idiotic attempt to get the black vote by forcing the nation to recognize a holiday that only makes sense in Texas. It won’t work because 90% of black Americans have never heard of this and will forget about by Time the mid terms roll around .

[Leep]

Now America will be great!
No?

[Skywise]

Disgusting.

[XRdsRev]

“ Juneteenth marks the date that the last enslaved African Americans were granted their freedom”

The article cannot even get the facts straight. Slavery was still legal in certain non-rebellious states after June 18, 1865. Slavery did not become illegal in all the United States until December 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Any holiday celebrating the end of slavery should have been in December.

[lonestar]

History embellished!