Did you know what Juneteenth was before this year?

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Not really. Slavery ended with the 13th Amendment.

Thank you.

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by louie0406

It will soon become the most violent day of the year.

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Do you really believe that, or are you say this out of spite? I have to ask because there are alot of spiteful individuals on CD, and in real life.

It doesn't help that it's in June. If it was in January, it would help.


I definitely agree, there will be many gun shots fired off on that day every day of the year it comes around, going forward.

[AKA Bubbleup]

All this time I thought Juneteenth was in honor of the June 19, 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted for supplying US state secrets on radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines and nuclear weapons design to the Russians.

I will continue to celebrate it in this fashion.

[lisanicole1]

June 19th is my birthday and I never knew my birthday was a holiday until this year.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by ChrisC

Can you point to the post or quote specifically where I stated that?

Happy to oblige, since you've forgotten

Originally Posted by ChrisC

I'm looking forward to Octoberteenth. It's a day that has been reserved for the complete exclusion of any leftist holiday or holiday proposal. It's the only normal day of the year at this point.

First, you lampoon the holiday's name; there is a reason for the name Juneteenth. Second, you're calling Juneteenth a "leftist holiday", which it clearly is not.

I'm not from Texas and I don't accept "words" hijacked by the left.

How do you feel about "Christmas"? It's the same type of word as Juneteenth - a portmanteau, and in Christmas' case, a portmanteau made of words from two different languages: Christ (Greek) and missa (Latin). But I guess you could say Christmas was hijacked by the left - early Christians certainly were not conservatives.

And then there's motel, smog, spork, turducken, infomercial ...

Look up the history of Juneteenth; or read the whole of this thread. The background of the holiday and why it is called Juneteenth is easily discovered.

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Not really. Slavery ended with the 13th Amendment.

And Juneteenth doesn't even commemorate the end of slavery, but instead marks a single event in the process of ending slavery, much like the Emancipation Proclamation did. Why it's too much for some folks to comprehend is beyond me.