Just a few facts for everyone that wants to celebrate this potential new holiday:
-Juneteenth is a celebration of June 19th, 1865
-It is to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in Confederate states, not the ones in the north (even though most searches will say that slavery was already abolished in northern states by 1805)
-Juneteenth is obviously a shortened version of June nineteenth, so perhaps we should start calling July 4th something else like "Julourth"?
-Emancipation was not the same for all slaves...for many it simply meant they would be transferred to Union territory where they could still be "employed"...you didn't think Lincoln freed his own housekeepers did you?
-The Underground Railroad ended in Canada for a reason; "freed" slaves caught in Union territory were often returned to their "employers" or simply "reemployed" by loving bosses in Union territory
-In Lincoln's famous Inaugural Speech in 1861, he completely removed the slavery issue from contention between the North and South by promising to enforce the fugitive slave clause and supporting a Constitutional Amendment which would explicitly protect slavery
-Lysander Spooner, a fiery abolitionist, wrote in his 1870 book No Treason, “The pretense that the ‘abolition of slavery’ was either a motive or justification for the war is a fraud of the same character with that of ‘maintaining the national honor.” This is the same guy that helped plot John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry as well as funded slave uprisings and militias in the South. How is it that one of the top abolitionists of the day claimed that slavery was not the cause of the war?
To be clear, I have no problem celebrating the end of slavery in America, but did it ever really happen? We and all of our ancestors have been debt slaves since this nation's inception.
sick and fucking tired of 'black' causes and grievances
same with gays
You will never satisfy the people who push these narratives. EVER.
They are erasing our history, not revealing it.
Juneteenth WTF? It’s like they couldn’t remember the date. It says Let’s celebrate ignorance. So in a way it’s a perfect representation of a liberal holiday.
Welcome to Pride Month
Black people's priorities are so screwed up...they are more concerned with sticking it to whitey than they are with actually improving their quality of life. It isnt a mystery to me why their community is in shambles. There is zero accountability and until their is, they will continue to regress.
this silly little stunt is nothing more than this colossal failure of an "administration" trying to salvage any votes in the future from any Black Americans.
Great post.
I won't get into the politics of this "holiday" because I only learned about it in the past couple of years due to the television show Atlanta (which I liked). Any speaking I do on the topic would be done in ignorance.
You make great points about the sliding of slavery; let's hope all our fellow field hands wake the fuck up soon.
"The Underground Railroad ended in Canada" because of the Dred Scott decision. Once SCOTUS forced non-slave states to become complicit in what today we would call human trafficking, the Civil War became inevitable. IMHO, of course.
It has been celebrated here for a long time. There is a major pic nic gathering in a major city park.
We just don't need any more paid federal holidays.
Great points...even the Boston Tea Party is missing context when taught in schools even today:
This is from a paper I wrote a few years back for my Senior Thesis. Quotes are from this awesome book:
Adams, Charles. Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America. New York: The Free Press (1998):