Posted on 06/18/2021 5:21:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Huh, Unleased or Unleashed?
I don’t think they would go that far. I really don’t. For starters it is instilled in our culture.
Juneteenth sounds like it comes from the missing verse to this Stephen Foster classic:
“Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere’s wha my heart is turning ebber,
Dere’s wha de old folks stay.”
The word Juneteenth comes from a population that didn't know how to count to 19; or from someone who wanted you to think the population didn't have the capacity to count to 19.
Either way, I question if the stereotype is worth celebrating.
It really celebrates a REPUBLICAN victory, a great Republican President Abe Lincoln and Texas agreeing to stop slavery, so I don’t see what the big deal is.
We need to get in front of the narrative in my view.
“I don’t think they would go that far. I really don’t.”
Many things liberals do seem unlikely.
Until they do them.
Well, I should have added my reasoning behind it: If we live in a world where they were to do that, it would be the least of our problems.
Setting aside that Texas didn't exactly agree (Texas was a conquered state), President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was not a moral judgment; it was styled a military measure necessary for military success.
In fact, President Lincoln added a slave state to the United States after he issued the EP.
You might be interested to learn the United States clung to slavery six months after the defeat of the Confederacy.
The U.S. did not, of course, cling to slavery for sentimental reasons. It remained in the U.S. for as long as it did only because it was in the blue states’ economic and political best self interest.
“I don’t think they would go that far. I really don’t.”
If you don’t believe me, take it from someone that knows a lot more than I do.
Said he: “I see the country has gone nuts, so my expectations are very, VERY low.”
All kidding aside, I join you in praying for our country every day. I feel the heaviness in my chest!
I don’t think that will happen.
At least, parents need to educate their children about our history.
In Denver, they had a reading of The Declaration of Independence every 4th of July. Brought my children every year.
I know! It’s like a holiday to celebrate ignorance!
Happy ‘Fry Day’ to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg! Celebrate with some sparklers this evening...teach your children some important U.S. history...
I truly hope not. There are PLENTY of patriotic black Americans who celebrate Independence Day.
Agree it’s more about who was freed rather than who died to free them.
“I don’t think they would go that far.”
It took just about 48 hours.
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