1ºJuneteenth is NOT what you've been told it is!
While Juneteenth is certainly an important historical event worth commemorating, it does not deserve to be a paid day off for two reasons.
The first reason is that we shouldn't have an additional day when we pay people to not work. Most people who will be paid to not work today are people whose salaries are paid by taxpayers. But who will still be at work today? Most taxpayers! There is something seriously wrong with that.
The second reason is that the significance of Juneteenth has been grossly misrepresented by politicians and the press.
We've been told that the original Juneteenth was when Union forces reached Galveston and told the slaves in Texas that they were free. So far, so good. But then we've been told that June 19, 1865 was the last day slaves were held in the United States. And that is false.
Slaves were legally held in the United States until December 6, 1865. And do you know where one hundred percent of those last slaves were? In UNION STATES! Seriously. Few people know that. But it's true.
When President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, not a single slave was immediately freed.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free anyone in the slave-holding states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware that sided with the Union against the Confederacy. In fact, it didn't free any slaves anywhere because it only freed "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States." It also exempted areas in Confederate states that were already under Union control.
In other words, slaves in the rebellious South were declared to be free but were still held in bondage because the Union could not enforce it; and slaves held in the North and in the Occupied South, where the Union forces COULD enforce it, were not granted freedom.
The Emancipation Proclamation was of great benefit because it was used to free southern slaves as Union forces spread throughout the South. But some Union states continued to legally hold slaves until the ratification of the Thirteen Amendment on December 6, 1865.
So if we are to commemorate "the last slave in America being freed," that would be December 6th not June 19th.
Is that important? People have accused me of being pedantic by obsessing over minutiae. But details matter. The "big picture" is comprised of little details called "facts." When we ignore the little facts, we get the big picture wrong. Somebody's gotta correct the errors. So I do.
We should use Juneteenth as an opportunity to teach real history. We should acknowledge the horror of slavery. And we should celebrate that America ended it. But we shouldn't use it as an excuse to give federal bureaucrats another day off work.
With that said, I've gotta get back to work. I'm private sector.
2ºLloyd Eddy false... Instead of pushing some propaganda video maybe look up who was voting on what in Congress. All the way up through the 1964 civil rights act it's all been pushed through by the Republicans. It was actually Democrat Sen Byrd, the KKK member they tried to filibuster that one. You know the guy Biden gave a Eulogy at his funeral.
The parties never swapped. The only thing that changed was the Democrats saw if they didn't bring in those untapped votes to their side they would never win anything. So they reformed the party around division "everyone hates you but we don't, and we will make them pay..." The Republicans are still about Equality while Democrats are a mixture of special interest groups that have been promised Equity, that they never get.
3ºSeems like an effort to create new flags and symbols to protect White ones. Another opportunity to one boat Black People, and have White Chosen Black Voices make us look even less. One doesn’t have one’s own family account of their ancestors or history. So they claim someone else’s, or seek to define it as collective. If you truly have any dignity and pride, you keep the day personal, you make the day about walking your family’s history back to slavery. Of course some White People and some sold out Black activists going to attack you. The notions of collectivism, intellectual racism, being less for political and social stances is modern day slavery.
4ºJaime Franco-Floccari Oh let me add to what I know about it. I know slavery ended April 9th, 1865. I know it took over two months for the news to reach Texas, but regardless, the fact is that slavery ended in April. I know Texas made it a holiday. I also know that Texas has a habit of making celebrations out of things regardless of the facts, like the Alamo. Only in Texas can they take a complete military disaster that occurred as the result of disobeying a direct military order from a superior and think it was something great.
5ºFor those of you complaining about this holiday…go work on your day off or give up your holiday if you are so offended by it. I bet none of you do.
For those complaining about the post office being closed: Sorry for inconvenience! You shouldn’t have to wait an extra day for your subscription to inbred monthly. You shouldn’t have to wait any longer to jerk off to pics of your sister. The fact you have to use last month’s issue is a travesty.
And don’t come at me with that libtard BS. I don’t like liberals either so you need a better comeback than that.