Nice to see Biden following thru on part of Trump's plan. ;)
Biden signed Juneteenth into law on Thursday as a federal public holiday — but President Donald Trump had proposed doing so last year, as part of his “Platinum Plan” for black Americans.
The plan promised to make Juneteenth “a National Holiday” marking the emancipation of slaves in the Civil War.
Though embraced recently as a left-wing cause, Juneteenth has long been a regional holiday with patriotic themes. The official flag of Juneteenth, created in 1997 by Ben Haith, the founder of the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation (NJCF), alludes to the red, white, and blue of the American flag, as well as the Lone Star of the Texas state flag. Trump worked with rapper Ice Cube on the plan.
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/president-trump-platinum-plan-final-version.pdf https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/18/juneteenth-trump-proposed-national-holiday-in-platinum-plan-for-black-america/#
Juneteenth is a blend of the words June and nineteenth