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The Flag of Juneteenth
Vanity

Posted on 06/18/2021 7:30:30 PM PDT by X180A

Lest we forget - The Flag of June 19th, 1865.

Flag of Juneteenth

Thirty-five stars. Missing were:



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 18620619; abolition; cornyn; emancipation; juneteenth; racism; reparations; slavery

1 posted on 06/18/2021 7:30:30 PM PDT by X180A
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To: X180A
Juneteenth 1900.

A Texas celebration.

2 posted on 06/18/2021 7:36:57 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: X180A

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.


3 posted on 06/18/2021 7:40:32 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: From The Deer Stand

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!


4 posted on 06/18/2021 7:45:46 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ifinnegan
Well, it looks just a little somber.

But they ain't out shootin' up the neighborhood neither.

5 posted on 06/18/2021 7:46:55 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: From The Deer Stand

> 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.


6 posted on 06/18/2021 7:47:49 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: X180A

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.


7 posted on 06/18/2021 7:48:00 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

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.


8 posted on 06/18/2021 7:56:48 PM PDT by X180A
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To: ifinnegan
A Texas Juneteenth celebration 79 years later (1979)

Even Stevie Ray Vaughn played that day.

9 posted on 06/18/2021 8:00:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: X180A

10 posted on 06/18/2021 8:06:36 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: lightman

The lost cause brigade here thinks they were evil war crminals.


11 posted on 06/18/2021 8:15:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: MuttTheHoople

Excellent!


12 posted on 06/18/2021 8:34:49 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

“My wife’s Great Grandfather survived Andersonville.”


The commandant of Andersonville was the only Confederate hanged for his actions during the Civil War.


13 posted on 06/18/2021 9:01:20 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: From The Deer Stand

[[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-


14 posted on 06/18/2021 9:15:16 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Leaning Right

AND keeping Black Americans crippled victims for decades and decades and decades.


15 posted on 06/18/2021 9:29:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: hanamizu

Dramatized in a great TV movie, the Andersonville Trial, staring the incomparable William Shatner.


16 posted on 06/19/2021 4:38:32 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: ifinnegan

Cool pic.


17 posted on 06/19/2021 7:38:56 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: ifinnegan

And please note they made a point of having the American flag in the picture—the flag of freedom.


18 posted on 06/19/2021 8:09:45 AM PDT by hanamizu
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