One of the things I find so strange about Juneteenth is this.
Republican President Abraham Lincoln announced the end of slavery via his Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. This is the Date slaves were set free. We fought a civil war over this issue. The proclamation was officially announce midway through that war.
"Juneteenth" is a date some 2 and a half years later that commemorates freedom from slavery. Apparently, it's when some troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to re-declare what Lincoln said two and a half years earlier.
Wouldn' the correct date for Freedom From Slavery be New Year's Day? We celebrate July 4th and 1776 as our nation's birth date because the DECISION to start a new country was made on that day. We still had to fight the entire Revolutionary War after that date and had to write our Constitution twice, and draft dozens of amendments to get it right.
But, it's the day the decision is made that is the Date that matters.
I wonder if "Juneteenth" is just an effort to make sure people forget Republican Abraham Lincoln Freed the slaves?
It seems very similar to the 1619 project or whatever the hell date the New York Times came up with for the start of our country.
The Commie Left are purposely trying to rewrite history to Remove our history. Same with taking down our monuments. This woke shit is going way too far. It needs to be nipped wherever it buds.
Everyone needs to read every word of the Emancipation Proclamation. It did not free all the slaves. It only punished the Southern states who seceded. Slaves were not freed in a number of places, such as Norfolk, VA and New Orleans.
I have yet to find a single black person who has ever actually read the document. They have no clue what is in the document they believe is so important.
Essentially, Lincoln was basically the opposite of his hero status.
Civil war was not to free the slaves but to prevent the South from seceding due to the North behaving remarkably like the Britain the colonies had fought to break free from, as was their constitutional right. The Constitution was basically suspended to fight the war, with Lincoln as dictator.
Opponents (particularly, Northern publishers critical of Lincoln's policies) were jailed without due process (papers closed).
Lincoln was for big government 100% and it had already caused economic failure in Illinois but he didn't care, wanted to take his policies national.
He was a horrible racist - he wanted all the blacks sent back, or at least to central/south America.
The war against the south was brutal and violated war conventions (I forget what the one prior to the Geneva Convention was called, but they were in fact in place) - it was total and wrecked everything/ruined civilians/agriculture etc - big reason the South was behind the North economically until a century later and industry started moving in.
Those fighting for the South (such as General Lee who turned down fighting for the North) were generally fighting for their states. At the time, states still had a much higher level of status/power vs the federal gov't - this war and Lincoln of course changed that and basically cemented things toward the out of control federal government we have now.
I think those are the main points, may be missing a couple. Regarding reviewers (I like posting Goodreads when possible vs sending people to Amazon) that say he contradicts the entire body of Lincoln work and doesn't cite sources etc - well history is written by the winners and we here are particularly aware of how THAT works, and as for the citations, he heavily cites everything including the racist Lincoln quotes.
One of the things I find so strange about Juneteenth is this.
Republican President Abraham Lincoln announced the end of slavery via his Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. This is the Date slaves were set free. We fought a civil war over this issue. The proclamation was officially announce midway through that war.
"Juneteenth" is a date some 2 and a half years later that commemorates freedom from slavery. Apparently, it's when some troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to re-declare what Lincoln said two and a half years earlier.
Wouldn' the correct date for Freedom From Slavery be New Year's Day? We celebrate July 4th and 1776 as our nation's birth date because the DECISION to start a new country was made on that day. We still had to fight the entire Revolutionary War after that date and had to write our Constitution twice, and draft dozens of amendments to get it right.
But, it's the day the decision is made that is the Date that matters.
I wonder if "Juneteenth" is just an effort to make sure people forget Republican Abraham Lincoln Freed the slaves?
It seems very similar to the 1619 project or whatever the hell date the New York Times came up with for the start of our country.
The Commie Left are purposely trying to rewrite history to Remove our history. Same with taking down our monuments. This woke shit is going way too far. It needs to be nipped wherever it buds.
Everyone needs to read every word of the Emancipation Proclamation. It did not free all the slaves. It only punished the Southern states who seceded. Slaves were not freed in a number of places, such as Norfolk, VA and New Orleans.
I have yet to find a single black person who has ever actually read the document. They have no clue what is in the document they believe is so important.
Everyone needs to read this book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106594.The_Real_Lincoln
What's the TLDR on this one?
Thanks u/PepeSee 👈🏻
Essentially, Lincoln was basically the opposite of his hero status.
Civil war was not to free the slaves but to prevent the South from seceding due to the North behaving remarkably like the Britain the colonies had fought to break free from, as was their constitutional right. The Constitution was basically suspended to fight the war, with Lincoln as dictator.
Opponents (particularly, Northern publishers critical of Lincoln's policies) were jailed without due process (papers closed).
Lincoln was for big government 100% and it had already caused economic failure in Illinois but he didn't care, wanted to take his policies national.
He was a horrible racist - he wanted all the blacks sent back, or at least to central/south America.
The war against the south was brutal and violated war conventions (I forget what the one prior to the Geneva Convention was called, but they were in fact in place) - it was total and wrecked everything/ruined civilians/agriculture etc - big reason the South was behind the North economically until a century later and industry started moving in.
Those fighting for the South (such as General Lee who turned down fighting for the North) were generally fighting for their states. At the time, states still had a much higher level of status/power vs the federal gov't - this war and Lincoln of course changed that and basically cemented things toward the out of control federal government we have now.
I think those are the main points, may be missing a couple. Regarding reviewers (I like posting Goodreads when possible vs sending people to Amazon) that say he contradicts the entire body of Lincoln work and doesn't cite sources etc - well history is written by the winners and we here are particularly aware of how THAT works, and as for the citations, he heavily cites everything including the racist Lincoln quotes.