Yes. It was designated Juneteenth because news traveled so slowly at that time no one knew an exact date, and it was in June news of the freeing of the slaves got to them.
Over there, however, the rabble seem so triggered by this holiday. It’s like conservatives have transitioned to girly-men. Ew, a ‘made up’ holiday celebrating the end of slavery…it’s anti white…why can’t ‘those people’ be happy with July 4, blah blah blah.
If people thought beyond their primal urges, they’d see that Juneteenth stands as a separator between America and the loser nations of this world. All other nations speak with Unity on their lips and the devil in their heart; there is more racism in the pinky of the UK and Germany et than the whole of America.
In this country, we WORK on our imperfections. The world (and the left in the US) sees that work, and weaponizes it as mental trap against us. Men of good standing and intellectual rigor laugh in the face of this onslaught. Weaker men succumb.
This distinctly American virtue was encapsulated perfectly in 2020 by Condoleezza Rice - not a favorite around here - who schooled a loser at CBS carrying globalist water on this topic, effectively saying the George Floyd-fueled riots are indicative of American subhumanism :
Well, I’ve always thought that America’s greatest strength is that we are a country where you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, and where, despite our painful history, we’ve worked harder and harder every day, brick by brick, to build a more perfect union for all of us. And I would say to those, particularly in places like China and Russia and Iran, who may want to use this for propaganda, let’s not be absurd.
This is not Tiananmen Square where you’ve mowed down people who disagreed with the government. This is not the invasion of Crimea where you took land from your neighbor. This is not the Green Revolution in Iran where you killed people wantonly because they wouldn’t agree with the theocratic government.
Rice continued, “And I would even say to our friends abroad, in places like Europe, where I’m seeing demonstrations in support of what is happening here, thank you for your support, but please look in the mirror. Please ask yourself, in countries in Europe and countries all across the world, what are you doing about racial and ethnic inequality in your own circumstances? America has gotten better because we have been willing to confront our problems. And we’re going to confront our problems again. We’re confronting them now.
“But I really don’t need to be lectured by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about peaceful protest when they have themselves used their own force just because people wanted to criticize the government. That is not what is happening here,” she added.
Will I be celebrating Juneteenth with fireworks, or parades, or sitting with my black friends? No, but then I don’t eat pasta on Columbus Day or visit DC on Presidents Day.
But I also wont be a Useful Idiot for the left, who laugh when conservatives bitch about a holiday that is really about American Exceptionalism.
That’s what I heard too...