Posted on 06/18/2021 7:30:30 PM PDT by X180A
Lest we forget - The Flag of June 19th, 1865.
Thirty-five stars. Missing were:
A Texas celebration.
It’s great that we’re observing Juneteenth where thousands of northerners gave their lives so slaves, who Democrats fought to retain, could be freed. Years later Republicans fought for the Equal Rights Amendment which no Democrats supported. And don’t forget the Democrat Ku Klux Klan. Republicans are the party of Black freedom.
I had two Great-Great Grandfathers in the G.A.R.
Lost a Great-Great Uncle to a mortal wound suffered in the battle of the Wilderness...died as a P.O.W.
My wife’s Great Grandfather survived Andersonville.
Our family has done its part. We don’t owe no stinkin’ reparations!
But they ain't out shootin' up the neighborhood neither.
> Republicans are the party of Black freedom. <
Yep. And that includes physical freedom, social freedom, and economic freedom.
But you’ve got to give the Democrats credit for one thing. They did a great job hiding that fact from Black Americans.
It’s worth noting that stars representing the Confederate states were not removed. Lincoln’s position was that they really couldn’t leave the Union. I have seen flags at CW reenactments with eleven stars blacked out though.
But Lincoln was dead and gone when Reconstruction required the states to reapply for admission.
The 35 star flag became the Official United States Flag on July 4th, 1863 and remained so through and beyond June 19th, 1865. It was the flag that was draped over Lincoln’s coffin and the flag that flew, two of them, at the front of Lincoln’s funeral train.
Even Stevie Ray Vaughn played that day.
The lost cause brigade here thinks they were evil war crminals.
Excellent!
“My wife’s Great Grandfather survived Andersonville.”
[[Republicans are the party of Black freedom.]]
I just wish more folks would understand that fact- the left somehow has won black folks to their side- but really it was democrats who were pissed that slavery was ended- and who tried to keep black folks down even after slavery was abolished-
AND keeping Black Americans crippled victims for decades and decades and decades.
Dramatized in a great TV movie, the Andersonville Trial, staring the incomparable William Shatner.
Cool pic.
And please note they made a point of having the American flag in the picture—the flag of freedom.
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