Posted on 06/19/2022 5:00:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA (Reuters) - With street parties, the trumpets and drums of marching bands, speeches and a few political rallies, people across the United States marked Juneteenth this weekend, a jubilee commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans.
Events started on Friday and continued through Sunday featuring concerts at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, freedom walks in Galveston, Texas, and jazz music in New York City's Harlem neighborhood.
"This is America's holiday, not just African Americans' holiday," said Gerald Griggs, the Georgia state president of the NAACP civil rights organization. "It's the true Independence Day, the day when all Americans were free."
In 2021, President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday, and most states and many companies give it recognition and hold celebrations.
In a proclamation on Friday, Biden remarked on the 10 people slain in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.
"We must stand together against white supremacy and show that bigotry and hate have no safe harbor in America," the proclamation said.
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The media will report the surge of people out for a Father’s Day restaurant meal as juneteeth celebrations.
I think Mississippi was the last to ratify their constitution to abolish slavery. Happened in 2013.
And if this Negro fatigue article does it exasperate you, right here in the middle of pride month, all the pro-queer articles will.
“This is America’s holiday”
Yeah, we have a big celebration planned.
Celebrate emancipation
Forget the inequality that permitted enslavement
“Negro de Mayo”???
LOVE it, gundog. Mind if I use it?
Absent Fathers Day
Ironic that Juneteenth and Father’s Day fall on the same day considering the majority of black America’s issues stem from a lack of fathers.
I'm going to have a nice watermelon salad, steak, and grilled corn to celebrate!
Luckily I only watch tv when I visit my mom.
I probably would have stroked out by now otherwise…
I’m also limiting my FR time. More walking in nature preserves, meditating, and reading books. They help chill me out. I’m naturally wound tight.
There is Father’s Day, and there is “Festivus for the Rest of Us”. The Ebonics of the name is the capstone.
It’s only Father’s Day this year. Won’t be again for at least 7 years.
You did notice that the first national celebration of Juneteenth falls on Father’s day?... was that to be inclusive, and so we all have something to celebrate? /should this have remained unspoken?
I forgot to pick up decorations at that Juneteenth store where the Party store was a few months ago, Halloween store a few months before that, sports store before Covid19 lockdowns….
I’m surprised that Juneteenth is celebrated in the north. The emancipation proclamation applied only to rebelling states and areas. Slavery was legal (and practiced) before, during, and after the end of the civil war in the north.
Has nobody actually read the EP?
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation
https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race#detailed/1/any/false/1729,37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431
They robbed the Juneteenth store by me.
Puke
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