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Parades, street festivals and speeches mark Juneteenth across U.S
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | June 19, 2022 | By Rich McKay (D-Reuters)

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gopfreedslaves; governmentworkers; holiday; june; juneteenth; lincolndidthis; lincolnfreedslaves; thanklincoln
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To: who knows what evil?

Juneteenth is Black Ass Kissing. No more, no less


61 posted on 06/19/2022 6:15:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: suthener

“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.


62 posted on 06/19/2022 6:15:20 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Well, I guess they sucked you in.


63 posted on 06/19/2022 6:21:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: suthener

“This is America’s holiday, not just African Americans’ holiday,”

I disagree.


64 posted on 06/19/2022 6:22:56 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s the day the Republicans freed the slaves


65 posted on 06/19/2022 6:24:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: bert

“guess they sucked you in.”

I’m not in favor of the juneteenth holiday.


66 posted on 06/19/2022 6:24:34 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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


67 posted on 06/19/2022 6:24:46 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t even have my Juneteenth costume ready yet and I have not finished the Juneteenth decorations on the house.


68 posted on 06/19/2022 6:27:00 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Google doodle is celebrating Father’s day. I guess the Indian fascists running Google didn’t get the woke message.


69 posted on 06/19/2022 6:27:46 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many shootings will there be?!


70 posted on 06/19/2022 6:28:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We must stand together against white supremacy and show that bigotry and hate have no safe harbor in America," the proclamation said.

How about taking a stand on black-on-black crime?!

71 posted on 06/19/2022 6:29:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: sergeantdave
The Google doodle is celebrating Father’s day.

Really?! And they ain't calling it "Impregnating Person's Day?!"

Amazing!

Regards,

72 posted on 06/19/2022 6:34:15 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“those who celebrate Juneteenth ignore their fathers.”

Most don’t know who their father is.


73 posted on 06/19/2022 6:35:55 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Are the homos going to be upset by the negroes crashing their month long party?


74 posted on 06/19/2022 6:39:01 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: AppyPappy

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?


75 posted on 06/19/2022 6:43:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.
76 posted on 06/19/2022 6:53:44 AM PDT by lewislynn (The Murdochs might be citizens but they aren't true blue Americans.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Among the listed celebrations, missing is mass shootings, mayhem and homicide.


77 posted on 06/19/2022 6:58:14 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


78 posted on 06/19/2022 7:03:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: ryderann

Lots of shootings during last year’s jumpteenth celebrations.


79 posted on 06/19/2022 7:13:17 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Triple

Has nobody actually read the EP?


I have. Lincoln issued the EP as a war measure. Inasmuch as slaves were an asset to the rebelling states he declared that slaves in any part of the U.S. that was in active rebellion against the U.S. were free. Slaves in territory controlled by the U.S. including Confederate states were not. The E.P. carefully lists the states, counties and parishes not covered by it. Slaves there were still slaves, as of course, were the slaves in the Union states.

Slavery didn’t end until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

And no, today does not mark ‘the true independence day’.


80 posted on 06/19/2022 8:28:15 AM PDT by hanamizu
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