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.
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.