Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the date that news of the Emancipation Proclamation was first announced in Galveston, Texas, almost two and a half years after it had been signed by Republican President Lincoln and over two months after Democrat insurrectionists assassinated Lincoln. It started out as a black holiday in Galveston, then Texas, and then somehow spread from there.
Basically, it is a celebration of very slow mail delivery and the day when blacks in Galveston first learned that Republicans had taken Democrats' slaves away.
Yes....I understand all that.....MY basic comment was mainly about the “rebelling states” part of the Proclamation. IOW Missouri, a slave state AND part of the union and not ‘rebelling’ would be technically not affected, right? Words have meanings and there was a reason ole’ Abe chose those words.
This is all just renewed vigor by blacks, social media, MSM and even our leftist government to drudge up old chatter that was done and gone long ago. I put this Juneteenth in the same category as Kwanzaa....