Posted on 06/19/2022 9:00:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who helped lead efforts to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, said on Sunday that this year’s celebration is a moment to reflect on both the “jubilation of freedom” and the “brutality of slavery.”
“It is a moment of great emotion,” Jackson Lee told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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One reason for that was that white people would not allow black men to serve in the army until 1863.
I’m quite sure the Afro Americans have been taken care of by the US for quite some time now…. To the tune of trillions of dollars thanks to welfare.
Time to move on or move back to the motherland.
All the white people on both sides paid a terrible price during the 1860’s.
The government has helped the negro American quite a bit in the ensuing years up to the present.
To what avail?
Her name celebrates Confederate traitors and is offensive, she must change it. (That’s what the carpetbaggers say when they move to Fairfax, VA and see the street signs for US 50, “Lee-Jackson”.)
That’s it in a nutshell.
I know that plenty of black men fought for their freedom. My point stands. People need to man up, grow up, stand on their own hind legs and do for themselves.
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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