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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Juneteenth is Black Ass Kissing. No more, no less
“guess Martin Luther King day wasn’t good enough”
Obviously not. Junteenth to me is be a memorial to those that died in the Civil War, and a day of thanks that our white culture kicked out slavery.
Well, I guess they sucked you in.
“This is America’s holiday, not just African Americans’ holiday,”
I disagree.
It’s the day the Republicans freed the slaves
“guess they sucked you in.”
I’m not in favor of the juneteenth holiday.
Is it America’s holiday? Please don’t ask to come to the cookout white people doesn’t sound all that inclusive to me.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/melina-abdullah-juneteenth-white-people
I don’t even have my Juneteenth costume ready yet and I have not finished the Juneteenth decorations on the house.
The Google doodle is celebrating Father’s day. I guess the Indian fascists running Google didn’t get the woke message.
How many shootings will there be?!
How about taking a stand on black-on-black crime?!
Really?! And they ain't calling it "Impregnating Person's Day?!"
Amazing!
Regards,
“those who celebrate Juneteenth ignore their fathers.”
Most don’t know who their father is.
Are the homos going to be upset by the negroes crashing their month long party?
It’s not even that. It’s a day when Northern troops told black people in Galveston that Republicans fought and died to set them free.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t celebrate January 1? The day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed?
My wife watches the Hallmark channel. Most every day. I call it the Middle-aged White Women”s channel.I call it the man haters channel.
Among the listed celebrations, missing is mass shootings, mayhem and homicide.
Meanwhile, on Junteenth, 1865, slavery was still legal in Maryland and Delaware until Dec 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified.
The other Slave States that remained in the Union had finally given it up except those two.
Lots of shootings during last year’s jumpteenth celebrations.
Has nobody actually read the EP?
Slavery didn’t end until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
And no, today does not mark ‘the true independence day’.
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