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The day the slaves were freed, is certainly worth celebrating. Unfortunately the people pushing the celebration were falling all over themselves, trying to decide which day should be celebrated.
Sensible choices can include:
1.) The day the Declaration of Independence was passed and signed by Congress (July 4)
or
2.) The day Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect (Jan. 1)
or
3.) The day the Civil War ended (April 9)
or
4.) The day the 13th amendment was ratified (Dec. 6)
Looks like the Juneteenth-pushers missed every single relevant date, and assigned it instead to the day some Union general, who had other things on his mind than just acting as a messenger, arrived in Galveston, TX and finally told a small group the the war was over, and had been for more than two months.
The Juneteenth-pushers' hearts are in the right place. The end of the Civil War, and/or the emancipation of the slaves, are absolutely worth celebrating. But their calendar skills suck.
Any chance they can have their holiday on a date when something important actually happened?
Today is Juneteenth Day, which is a celebration day commemorating the freeing of the slaves by President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) in 1862. Juneteenth day was first celebrated in Galveston, Texas in 1866, on June 19 of that year.
The recognition of this day as one worthy of affirmation if not outright celebration is certainly worthwhile and I am happy to take the initiative in starting a thread for that purpose here today.
This is not a thread celebrating the "holiday" for Juneteenth, which is excessive and appears to have been an act motivated by racially motivated, politically demagoguery by all those who voted for or signed it into law in Washington.
But it is a heartfelt sense of pleasure that the scourge of slavery was eradicated here in this country and those who were slaves were freed 159 years ago. And that is worthy of a celebration, or a toast, or a new thread on this board, or something along those lines. So, here it is.
Happy Juneteenth Day, everyone!
Oh, so today is Juneteenth aye? Fathers day move aside. After all fathers are an irrelevant group these days. All we Dads ever did was contribute in fertilization. This is a day better set aside for a Black holiday, a gay/lesbian holiday celebrating Obama signing gay/lesbian marriage into law soon to follow. Christmas maybe will be changed for that since Christmas colors are sort of rainbow already. Manufacturers won't have to retool much.
Oh, maybe Easter would work to. After all it's a religious holiday as well and we can't have people actually celebrating Faith. I saw an article on the news site I read over my coffee that said there is a town in Illinois that canceled Independence Day celebration but will have a gay pride and Juneteenth shindig. They cite that it was to late for permits and getting the fireworks approved (though this the July 4th celebration was canceled last year ahead of this for Covid) However a last minute 11th hour effort saw Juneteenth (just made a federal holiday) and gay pride festivities was no problem.
I'm really fed up with all this social/racial bilge. I well and truly am. But regardless I will put out my Old Glory 13 star flag and both my Gadsden flags on July 4th. And honor those brave American colonists (Oh My! "colonists" is a dirty word now me forgots!) who formed an armyfrom nothing and an effective Militia (oh no another dirty word) and went toe to toe with the stronest army and navy in the world so that so many people today have the freedom to deride and demean them. And to burn the flag they fought under and label it "racist and White supremacist."
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