Why was an obscure local holiday like Juneteenth chosen to commemorate the ending of slavery, and not the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? I believe the answer is because making it the date of the Emancipation Proclamation made it too obvious it was REPUBLICANS who ended slavery! Which, by the way, you should point out to anyone making a big to-do about Juneteenth.
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To: FreedomPoster
When was the first Soviet test? 1949? Have to look it up now
2 posted on
06/19/2021 6:23:29 AM PDT by
SaveFerris
(The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
To: FreedomPoster
I wondered that myself. Has to be political. The left calls it independence day, as if to replace July 4.
4 posted on
06/19/2021 6:24:57 AM PDT by
gattaca
("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
To: FreedomPoster
Too much football and drinking on January 1 to let a little actual history come into play.
5 posted on
06/19/2021 6:25:36 AM PDT by
ealgeone
To: FreedomPoster
We have now Father’s day as federal holiday.
Now we need to do the same for Mother’s day
6 posted on
06/19/2021 6:25:49 AM PDT by
AZJeep
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
To: FreedomPoster
Why was an obscure local holiday like Juneteenth chosen to commemorate the ending of slavery, and not the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? January 1st already has a holiday.
To: FreedomPoster
8 posted on
06/19/2021 6:28:13 AM PDT by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
To: FreedomPoster
My theory is that the U.S. is following the Canadian model of fabricating national holidays out of thin air just to ensure that there’s one in every month.
Maybe we can celebrate the day MLK got his driver’s license or Malcolm X got his first haircut … but only if those things happened in March, April or August!
9 posted on
06/19/2021 6:28:18 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
To: FreedomPoster
my son in law celebrates Robert E Lee’s birthday on MLK day.
10 posted on
06/19/2021 6:28:53 AM PDT by
ronniesgal
(so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
To: FreedomPoster
Also worthwhile:
12 posted on
06/19/2021 6:29:37 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
13 posted on
06/19/2021 6:30:07 AM PDT by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: FreedomPoster
Yes! Happy ‘Fry Day’...don’t forget to celebrate this evening with some sparklers for the kids!
14 posted on
06/19/2021 6:30:18 AM PDT by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: FreedomPoster
The Proclamation was effective Jan 1 1863. New Years Day. And it only freed slaves in states in rebellion. Missouri, Ky, Md were not affected.
18 posted on
06/19/2021 6:34:20 AM PDT by
xkaydet65
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To: FreedomPoster
The historical fact that the Juneteenth crowd gets wrong is that slavery continued to legally exist in Kentucky and Delaware until the Thirteenth Amendment was officially certified by Secretary of State Seward, on December 18, 1865. The military proclamation in Texas did nothing for these people. Just like election laws and actual ballot counts, facts mean nothing to the woke crowd. The propaganda is everything to them. This is another law that will be declared null and void when the Biden regime is exposed as a fraud.
19 posted on
06/19/2021 6:35:05 AM PDT by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it.")
To: FreedomPoster
A very good reason not to celebrate my birthday, ever again!
21 posted on
06/19/2021 6:41:42 AM PDT by
JubJub
To: FreedomPoster
Yup! First thought that came into my little pea brain. The rosenbergs execution. Still think the majority never knew what this was until a few days ago. Some probably still have no clue. Next up for fed holiday——kwanza.
24 posted on
06/19/2021 6:50:28 AM PDT by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: FreedomPoster
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that were in armed rebellion with the USA.
If one reads the proclamation, it also list exceptions.
27 posted on
06/19/2021 7:00:29 AM PDT by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: FreedomPoster
We used to deal with criminals like that. Now they get book deals, TV gigs etc.
29 posted on
06/19/2021 7:02:53 AM PDT by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: FreedomPoster
You are correct about the attempt to minimize the attention that will be given to the Republican party. So the way to speak of Juneteenth is to emphasize and celebrate the Republican party.
“Juneteenth is the much delayed day the people of Galveston found out that Republican party president Lincoln freed slaves in Texas two years earlier.”
“The proclamation was made by soldiers who arrived at Galveston and were overwhelmingly Republicans who voted to keep Lincoln in office the previous year”
“In 1865 it was Republican policy to end slavery. We celebrate Juneteenth as one of many events in which Republicans fulfilled their promise to end slavery against the active opposition of Democrats.”
To: FreedomPoster
Now the blacks have two holidays and all the TV commercials.
32 posted on
06/19/2021 7:09:51 AM PDT by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: FreedomPoster
Shouldn’t it be “Juneteef”?
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