Posted on 06/18/2021 4:57:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
P.S. McCain's ancestors DID own slaves. The family was originally from Mississippi where they owned a plantation.
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Juneteempf is a summer version of Kwanzaa. Cringe “conservative” efforts to try to turn it into anything other than what it is (another outgrowth of Critical Race Theory), are not just sad, they are evil.
I was under the impression emancipation included sending all the slaves back to Africa. The book Uncle Toms Cabin had chapters dedicated to it. Grant wrote about it in his memoirs.
Why has this aspect of freeing the slaves been ignored?
I’m sure it’s been discussed in other threads but don’t understand how this helps anyone more than 150 years after the end of Civil War I, more than 50 years after MLK and civil rights for blacks, more than 10 years after the first “non-white president”, etc etc. This is what countries in decline do.
Just another political stunt from the left to pacify blacks and to give themselves and their government cronies another paid federal holiday!
Good article. Thanks for posting it.
So, there is Black History Month, MLK, Jr.’s Birthday, Kwanzaa, monuments to career criminals, and now Juneteenth. That’s an awful lot of celebrating fatherless 13%-ers who commit half of all crime, 70% of felonies, 50% of murders, and 100% of fast food restaurant riots.
The wrong side prevailed in 1865
You are ignoring that they did not come here out of free will, like your ancestors did. Why is that?
Something from Wikipedia should make us whities feel less guilty:
“by 1850 the number of African slaves within Africa exceeded those in the Americas.”
I can’t ignore what I am not talking about.
Some of my ancestors came here out of desperation. That has nothing to do with my question.
Even Trump fell for it.
There was resistance to sending emancipated slaves out of the country or even to their own enclaves within the country because whites still wanted them for labor. That was one of the reasons why President Grant was unsuccessful in establishing Santo Domingo as a place for those who wanted to emigrate to go.
Good article.
Just reflecting on the black community, how’d that work out for ya’?
I am not racially motivated.
I’m just wondering why history in print is being ignored.
I know the answer is obvious. I just thought someone may of had a different reason than “it’s not politically correct”.
How do conservative sites get writers that are so ignorant of the topics about which they write?
June 19 was the day, ostensibly, that slavery ended in the defeated Confederacy.
The United States clung to slavery until December of 1865. It was then the 13th amendment was ratified.
Besides, Africans wouldn’t want them anyway.
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