What about August 6th, the day we dropped the atomic bomb to free the world from slavery and tyranny?
When does this nonsense stop?
And why did nearly all the Republicans vote for it?
I have to confess that when I heard about this I had mixed feelings. I put my politics aside and found that I was for it.
In fact, to put it another way, how on earth did we not already have a national holiday for ending chattel slavery? We’ve simply made it official. And it is not even about race. It’s about chattel slavery.We no longer promote it nor do it, and we can celebrate it with a national holiday.
That actually seems like a good idea, as national holidays go.
It is not intended to unify the country, that is for sure.
Well the DC crooks have really divided this country for good .
I wont be bothering with this ridiculous day .
Sad Ugly pandering day .
Juneteenth should be called “National Republican Day”, honoring the Republicans for fighting and dying to free blacks from bondage…
Ben Shapiro loves Juneteenth.
Why do the stupid Republicans fall for this every time? I wish the Democrats would have just been upfront that the vote was to abolish July 4th as Independence Day. Now we are going two independence days, one approved by the culture for the woke folk and one unapproved that will get put on the back burner. The next fight will be over the flag, I wonder if that will finally wake people up?
IT is another PAID Federal holiday for over 650,000 taxpayer supported ‘employees’.
NOT A WORD about June 6th-—and this gets all the attention.
DISGUSTING
Well they have taken away our statues our historical events and wiped away our history. Since that’s the case I see no reason for a June teenth day because that history never happened either.
Was freedom “unleased”, or “unleashed”?
Juneteenth and Fathers Day same weekend. Confusion.
Lincoln’s birthday used to the day we celebrated the ending of slavery that Democrats used to practice .
As long as “they” destroy the monuments to Southerners, vilify Confederate Memorial Day, dig up the remains of the former Confederates, I don’t think there is any healing. We acquiesce to their wants yet they destroy our cherished history. When they admit that MLK,Jr., was a plagiarist, a misogynist serial adulterer, a woman beater, and a communist and remove his illegitimate holiday I will begin to believe them about “healing”.
How did this get inflated from 18 people to a quarter million “found out” they had been freed 18 months earlier? Should we have a federal holiday for every person who finds out later that a war ended? Are we celebrating illiteracy, since according to this guy, a quarter million people could not read their newspapers? This is the dumbest holiday ever. Even more nutty than Kwanzaa.
Black Festivus !!!
As part of the leftists’ balkanization of the United States, June 19th will become known as the Black holiday, and July 4th will become known as the White holiday.
With all the hoopla over Juneteenth, it is forgotten that there were still slaves in some of the five slave states that remained in the Union.
Slavery was not abolished until the 13th Amendment was ratified in Dec 1965, and many of the Indian Tribes still held slaves(most were Hispanics and of other tribes) until forced to give them up years later.
I do work for and live in a rural area with a substantial black population. I had never even heard of Juneteenth until about 5 years ago and I still don’t hear anything except thru the media about it.
I thought the whole “white savior” thing was passe’. Now it’s a holiday?