[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.

[Red Badger]

Yes, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware were slave states that did not secede..............

[Who is John Galt?]

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.

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...