Posted on 06/18/2021 7:27:45 AM PDT by Magnatron
President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on Thursday. Biden said that Americans “must” and “ought to” observe it — though he spent half a century in public office before doing anything about it.
Sine June 19 happens to fall on Saturday this year, the federal government will observe Juneteenth on Friday, June 18, meaning that Biden shut down the entire U.S. government on short notice. (Remember that, the next time Democrats complain about a budget impasse.)
Juneteenth, also called “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day,” celebrates the day in 1865 on which Union soldiers informed black Americans in Galveston, Texas, that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation nearly two-and-a-half years before.
It is, in a sense, the celebration of a Republican victory over Democratic racists.
The holiday, carried nationwide through migration, has since also become an expression of African American heritage and pride.
Why was Juneteenth never a federal holiday before?
America already has a holiday celebrating the end of the Civil War: it is Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day.
Like Juneteenth, Memorial Day began as an informal holiday; freed slaves may have been among the first to celebrate it. And like Juneteenth, it took more than a century to become a federal holiday. But unlike Juneteenth, Memorial Day is not specific to one group of people, or to one side in the war.
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Because it's a Texas thing.
I’ve never heard of this juneteenth before this. Lived in Texas for fifty years. So how many billions will this cost the non government workers to pay for this?
How about a white christian day. In fact that one should be celebrated every month.
Coming soon I fear: Mohammad day, Mao day, then Santa Ana Day, then Cochise day, then King Kamehameha day, then Fidel Castro Day, leading up to OJ day.
Another fake holiday just like Kwanzaa
I think it is important that we embrace Juneteenth as an AMERICAN holiday, to celebrate the end of our country’s “original sin”...if it is framed as a “Black” holiday, it will only add to the divisiveness being driven by the left; any resistance will be blown up as “evidence” that the right is racist. The best way to fight the left on this is to welcome it with open arms.
No, it’s a stupid holiday in the first place and completely astro-turfed.
Juneteenth? Sorry, I don’t speak jive.
And then - Judgement Day.
You should ask the people in Galveston that have businesses on the sea wall what they think of “juneteenth”.
The demiKrats and their Ministry of Truth - aka ,the 99% leftist media - will never mention that. All glory to THEM.
But garbage like this ABOMINATION of a “holiday”( As ALL Black holidays truly are ), is NOT what the Republicans had in mind all these decades!!!!
It’s a relatively new holiday for Texas. I think 1980. My mom worked for the State Comptroller office back in the day and I remember her getting all kinds of days off including this one, Confederate Heroes Day, and some other obscure holidays.
Not fake. It's been celebrated by blacks in Texas for a long time. Became an official state holiday in 1980.
“honoring the Republicans for fighting and dying to free blacks from bondage…”
Reparations should be paid to their descendants!
But what about that time that Republicans voted to keep slaves in chains? Should we celebrate this act by Republicans?
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2013/02/18/the-other-13th-richard-albert
What it should do is tell every Black American......no more excuses and claiming victimhood.
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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