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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More of these traitors should have been executed. All glossed over an forgotten....
Juneteenff equals BLM riot induced “holiday”.
They don’t work on June 15 th, either.
There should be throngs of black Americans in every city celebrating the US victory of the Civil War that bought their freedom. When is that holiday?
For Juneteenth we have yet to aire our racial grievances. I got a lotta problems with you people!!
More racial division from the democrats. A phony holiday along with kwanza and the idolatry of the charlatan Michael King Jr.
June 19 will be Father’s Day next in 2033. A given day falls on Sunday one-seventh of the time, but because of leap years it’s not every seventh year.
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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