What's your thoughts about Juneteenth?
DISCUSSION
Banks and post offices are closed. Legit holiday or what? Biden gave the deep state workers another freebie at our expense. Seems to me we have too many federal holidays already. I keep hoping that part of Trump's agenda will be to drastically cut the size and scope of government. Personally I think that first cut should be 50% and then chip away from there until it's about 25% of what we currently have. Then maybe our taxes can go down in an effort to free the rest of us slaves who pay taxes and foot the bills for outrageous expenditures like $billions to Ukraine and pallets of cash to Iran.
Here's what Lt Col. Allen West (a black man) has to say about Juneteenth:
"Happy Juneteenth folks, it’s the day when Blacks in Texas learned that they were free, June 19, 1865 in Galveston. But what does today mean? It’s the day when Blacks found out that the first Republican President had signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing them from the physical bondage of the Democrat Party. It was two years later, on July 4th 1867, that 150 of those same Black men met in Houston and established the Republican Party of Texas. The Democrats, in response, established the Ku Klux Klan. Today, the Democrats are economically enslaving Blacks and have turned inner city communities into modern plantations of welfare and economic dependence. Juneteenth is a celebration of why the Republican Party was established in 1854, the abolition of slavery. Only a flaming incompetent idiot would give the party of the jackass any credit for Juneteenth."
Came here to post Col. West's statement! ☝️
Well done ChessNotCheckers! 👏
I agree with Col. West! It's important that all Americans know the history of Juneteenth!
Yup! Enjoy the new summer holiday!
I'm with him^
Not entirely, from a spiritual perspective.
June 19th is near the Summer equinox, and is a celebration with fireworks, unrestrained freedom, and (often) firearms in gang-shooting events. It is a holiday, with its accompaniment of sacrifices and the worship of the individual.
Opposite, we have the celebration of our savior's birth. Most events are calm and subdued, with organized music and the recognition of the sacrifice made for us. Positioned closely to the winter equinox, sacrifices are made in the form of praise and thanksgiving.
Who would want such an inversion made? Whom would it be honoring? Spiting?
You're missing the point. The cabal are people who follow an older religion. It's pagan and many of its practices revolve around celebrating the equinoxes (March and October) and the solstices (June and December). There are reasons they do it that aren't really germane to this discussion. What is important is that they like to corrupt modern ideas and modern culture to get people to unknowingly celebrate their values and their holidays at their sacred times. Probably the best known example of this is Christmas. Biblical scholars working with astronomers speculate Christ was born in September at a time that aligned with a brightly visible star from the story of the nativity. But we celebrate that birth 4 days after the winter solstice. So, we think we're celebrating our god when in fact we're celebrating theirs.
That's why this matters. These people love their symbols. So, 2 days before the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, now they've got us celebrating for them again.
Near as I can tell google started it a couple of years ago. I was looking at my google calendar and thought "WTF is juneteenth?". And "How do I get rid of this?". Just turn off US Holidays and it goes away.
As am I.
Part of my awakening was the realization that the fundamental substance of this world is Spirit. We have an adversary in the Deep State, but the sweet song of its deception has an immaterial origin.
There are no coincidences.
Edit: added words to clarify my thoughts
Fire post. Felt like i was reading Spurgeon.
Thanks, fren. I've never read any of his writings, although the Wikipedia excerpt appears to sing his praises.
Correct.
Fake & Gay?
It's another shit show that has left some distaste in my mouth for my favorite month. It will never be about made up holidays or genders.
June: My birthday, The start of summer, The end of school, Fathers day.
The rest is horseshit.
Same, and super-extra pissed because the 19th is my son's birthday....
At least it gives us a day off from the swishy faggot parades
I would also add flag day is in June.
I did forget that one! Along with Trump's birthday!
Its also St. John the Baptist’s Feast Day - 24th. Traditionally, this was the midpoint of the growing season, halfway between planting and harvesting. Interesting with all the harvest q posts. Maybe we are half way there...
Yes! I remembered because June 14th is also my birthday. I have been harvesting our spinach. I should go through the Q posts again, I took a step back because life and overload of information was overwhelming.
Gay Pride month too. But you hate Blacks celebrating being liberated by the GOP. USA ENDED SLAVERY ON THIS DAY. JUNE is only a prelude to JULY anyway. June was meh pretty
Nope! It's the day the NEWS of the emancipation actually arrived in Texas,specifically at the Port of Galveston. The emancipation proclamation happened earlier, but the news of it was not known until June 19th in Texas.
That is not true.
Texas ended slavery on or around that day. The other states ended it two years earlier.
Juneteenth celebrates something that should be shameful: keeping Texas black people enslaved two years longer than everyone else -- because no one told them.
From USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/18/earliest-juneteenth-celebrations-photographed-in-1800s-in-texas/70326233007/
On Jan. 1, 1863, known as “Freedom’s Eve,” enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country until the news had arrived: President Abraham Lincoln issued the declaration "that all persons held as slaves" in the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation end slavery throughout the United States.
Enslavers were responsible for informing enslaved people, but not everyone in Confederate-controlled territory would immediately be told. The westernmost Confederate state of Texas was the last to announce the proclamation. On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops under Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informed a community of 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, who came to know the date as "Juneteenth."
Emphasis mine.
First thought…68 years old here….
WHAT’S THAT?
Never heard of it.
Made up holiday to give the Dem supporters another paid holiday and reason to vote demoncrat
It's like Kwanzaa in July! But sooner!
u/#kek my wife’s working. I’m working. #nodaysoff
Kek me too. #wageslave
Kwanzaa is not a holiday. Most American Blacks don't celebrate that foolishness.
Yup. That's what I meant.
Haha it’s a joke that everybody fell for during an election year
Last night there were some fireworks near me in Tampa. I guess firecrackers. Woo! I like the quote from Lt Col Allen West below in this thread. Here’s a screen cap of it to give to your bleeding heart ppl.
https://files.catbox.moe/56if9m.jpeg
It is a BS day that will soon have decorations and other commercialized crap. What do you think the food will be for this special day? Fried chicken, greens and watermelon? Purple drink? And if you ask anyone celebrating this important day, they probably could not tell you specifically. Just like if you ask many “African Americans” where they came from in Africa, they couldn’t say. They couldn’t say where their ancestors were from or who in their family were actually slaves. At what point will they say they forgive and want to move on? At what point will they look at the real history of enslavement in AFRICA and who used to be responsible for that? If you’re gonna claim a freaking American holiday, at least act like you don’t hate this country and the people in it who aren’t your color. I’m not saying all act like this, but many do. And then there is the left’s pandering. They’re responsible for the division in our country. It’s like they’re still using the blacks for their own benefit. Wait.. that sounds like slavery. Whoops.
I have Irish immigrant great grandparents on one side who used to talk about with family how badly the Irish were treated in our country and Canada and actually used to see signs up like “Irish need not apply.” We’ve heard the stories. The derogatory names, terrible wages, conditions and discrimination that lasted well into WW2. They went out and worked harder. They were the first American slaves nobody talks about. Or how about a national holiday for the Native Americans who were shat on harder than anyone. If it were that sort of holiday, I could get on board.
Could have just been a black on black murder. That's apparently a valid means of celebrating Juneteenth.
I think DC will be a ghost town. He will move almost all federal buildings around the country.
Put them in rural areas. Liberals tend to not like rural areas over urban . I think that even 25% of what we have right now is too much.
Congress should have people in place to monitor what is happening in certain areas. They should have no authority to pass any regs. Those people should only report back to congress. Their job should only be part time for a limited time. Congress can then decide if laws need to be changed.
No more regulations from unelected morons.
You’re right, 10% of what we currently have would be great. But for a long time I too thought a dispersal of DC offices across the country should be made but then I started to view the growth of goverment like cancer. Would I want it to infect the rural areas were good morals, work ethic and common sense would be infected by bureaucrats? That made me re-think the idea. Now, I think it should stay in DC were it can be contained and excised as needed, like a tumor.
They would have to be neutered to start with. They should have ZERO power to do anything except report to congress.
I also think they should be close to whatever they reporting to congress on.
This system would not appeal to liberals. By definition that means it is already better. LOL
“Liberals tend to not like rural areas over urban”
Rural life tends to require more manual labor as opposed to receiving envelopes filled with cash for not doing anything
Let it be flooded and turn it into a wetland. Got to conserve nature and all that shit.
And every elected jackoff needs a 8 years max.
I had to explain to my daughter (her father was a black Texan who first explained Juneteenth to me) that it wasn’t actually the day black Americans were free but the day black Americans in Texas found out. I don’t mind all our fellow black Americans celebrating their freedom from democratic slavery that day I however do mind that they have allowed democrats to systematically again enslave them through welfare and victimization.
Absolutely correct! I've spent years trying to dispel the lie that it is some how a national thing.
Your comment needs more upvotes.
I LOVE celebrating the time the Republicans freed the slaves!
Juneteenth is just another segregationist strategy. Worth keeping an eye on only to see when people start ignoring it. Just to see what gets rolled out to start the segregation again.
I first heard of it when President Trump had scheduled a rally for that day ( not sure of the year) and democrats had a hissy, dragging up this fake 'holiday'.
Watching inner city blacks jump around wearing fake African garb all talking about the end of slavery is a total fucking laugh to me. So easily manipulated.
Kinda like watching whites waving confederate democrat loser flags year round. JUNETEENTH celebrates VICTORY Confederate flag celebrates losing. SMH...
Celebrating democrats in Texas keeping their slaves for a full 2 years after the emancipation proclamation?
No it is a celebration of the GOP ENDING CORRUPTION when they find it. Dang kid.. You still thinking with your skin tone instead of your brain. Sad... E
I saw this bitch yesterday that had a t-shirt on.
It said “Fourth of July” in red white and blue and the word JUNETEENTH underneath. “Fourth of July” had a line through it, crossing “Fourth of July” out.
I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. These fucks want to rewrite history and will not stop until they receive reparations. They HATE this country, all while calling you a racist.
The two items the Deep State have focused on are the destruction of religious belief and the devision of the population based on race. If you are a white Christian, your way of life must be destroyed. If you are a black Christian, your way of life must be destroyed. They are dividing, in order to conquer and force all into a subservient one order anti-Christian rule. The US Government is openly dividing us all to achieve this goal.
I think we should make every day a federal holiday. One less day the minions in government and banking are actively working to screw us.
Come to think of it, it would be a great way for DJT to neuter the deep state. Create a new class of .gov worker exempt from all federal holidays for MAGA purposes, then make every day a federal holiday and send the rest home permanently.
We'd still be paying them, but at least they wouldn't be active. Then let Congress pull the funding.
It's a yearly reminder that slavery was probably the biggest mistake of the American experiment. Not just for the obvious reasons, but because it cemented big government in what was supposed to be a small government / relatively stateless society. Why? Because it needed a government bureaucracy and legal system to socialise the cost of slave ownership for the few slave owners and it prevented a free market in human labor. Not to mention that it imported people from incompatible cultures.
No, the British weren't the first, and no it wasn't limited to blacks, but If they had nipped slavery in the bud just a century earlier, we might not be experiencing nearly as much cultural and political subversion today.
I had to explain to my mom why there's no mail today.
Overrated.
You were never a slave.
Your parents were never slaves.
Your grandparents were never slaves.
I have never owned a slave.
My dad never owned a slave.
My grandad never owned a slave.
My great grandad never owned a slave.
My great great grandad was an Irish indentured servant and did not own a slave.
I wish all those other mutherfuckers woulda picked their own fucking cotton.
Is "politically weaponized federal holiday" a thing?
I think it’s another holiday to take away from the importance of the nuclear family. Father’s Day!
I saw one article that was regarding Disney’s two movies that failed, however, they referred to this weekend as Juneteenth weekend not Father’s Day weekend.
Little by little late, are trying to erode away at our lifestyle, at about things that matter like families. Mothers, fathers, etc.. make no mistake… It is it an accident, the day that they actually picked for the stupid Juneteenth holiday. Even the name is ridiculous.
The holiday exists in modern times only to create increased division, nothing more and nothing less. It's just one more thing in a long line of "things" that "they" have done/created to create as much division between blacks and the rest of the country.
Mind you, this holiday is a very old one (dating back to 1965) and has positive origins. Obviously the emancipation proclamation undid a terrible evil in this country. But the sudden emphasis on the holiday is strictly about division.
We all know that the Cabal could never have gotten as far as they have with a country that was united across racial and sociological lines.
My thoughts are why are we talking about it
Fake holiday
Stupid payday for federal employees! Nobody even knew what this was! Even George Washington doesn’t get his own say. Wrap up MLK and Jnth and call it civil rights celebration or something.
Another useless holiday like Kwanza.
I personally love it. It's exactly ten days before my wife's birthday, so I get a reminder each year. God forbid I mess that up.
I work it and don’t get holiday pay? Don’t care
Its a vitrue signalling valentines day. Created only to pander, placate, and profit.
I think I am going stretch and yawn the roll over on my right side thinking how good it felled.
Insist on taking the day off... Burn a floating holiday, whatever. It is a nice day in June. Republicans freed the slaves, and the word finally reached Galveston, TX. Long weekend, enjoy, Fren!
Do you need a holiday from doing F*** all
As a voluntary holiday it’s fine, but as a federalized day of observance it’s just too much. Workplaces were already trying to shift away from specific holidays and towards flex days, because not everyone has the same preferences. Trying to force Juneteenth upon banks, government offices, and the general population is going the wrong way.
And why is it a bank holiday? Next it will be gas stations and grocery stores.
Yeah, why are banks special? I’m not sure. It’s a good question. Maybe the concept came from Britain.