Posted on 06/18/2021 7:07:40 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
Will take some time to read from the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. A great American. I wonder what he would think of BLM, Antifa, and the general state of race relations in the US.
Then make the Holiday fall on the day The Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
I don’t care what day American freedom from slavery is celebrated - as long as it IS celebrated. And it makes sense to celebrate on the date when the last enslaved finally achieved freedom.
(Something tells me that you would object to any observance of this...)
First I heard about Juneteenth was from a black coworker back in 2009, maybe 2010. She said it was a local tradition from where she was from (New Orleans). She also said not many knew of it or celebrated it.
It started in Texas.
1938 Texas officially acknowledged it and in 1979 made it a holiday.
It wasn’t communist or leftist and the usurpation and perversion of it is sickening.
200,000 people celebrated it in Dallas in 1936.
It used to also be called Jubilee after Leviticus 25.
It was a celebration started by Christian Anericans, all on their own, of their freedom from slavery.
Give or take a hundred years. ;-)
Me. I am NOT going to tolerate all of this BS of unfounded accusations. I spit on it and a spit on them! This is driven by marxists who not only killed my uncle and my cousin, but also sent idiots to spit on troops at airports.
Nope,,a transplant from Portland, Oregon, followed ‘an AOL dream’.
If you’re hearing fireworks celebrating “Juneteenth” in your neighborhood, it’s time to call a realtor.
As long as I can remember!
“I have never known a single Black person who celebrated Kwanzaa. (I have lived in a Black-majority area for decades, lived and worked among Black people over all of my life, and grew up and was half-raised by a Black nanny.)
Independence day and Juneteenth are entirely different commemorations.”
My comment was kind of tongue in cheek. I have lived most of my life in large black populations, too. If you don’t see that having different black and white holidays is part of the planned friction between the races I think you’re missing the big picture.
So you can think of it as part of the Trump legacy Biden didn't undo.
Or you can think of it as Bunker Hill Day, a holiday in Boston that falls in the same week.
Evacuation Day, another holiday in Boston, happens on March 17th, but most people think of it as St. Patrick's Day.
For that matter, in January you can celebrate Civil Rights Day, a holiday in Arizona and New Hampshire, rather than Martin Luther King Day.
Trump was caught off-guard over the media-generated frenzy over a campaign rally being scheduled on Juneteenth. That was the first time most people even heard of Juneteenth.
Will have to wait breathlessly to see which ebonics driven new holiday name pops up next. Between kwanza and juneteenth it's a tight competition to find the scrabble tiles coming up with recognizable words.
Harford, eh? I’m in Cecil. Only county where you have to pay to go home.
It’s that joyous time of the year when we all get together and blame whitey for all our personal problems.
Howard. Liberal central.
Ouch!
You have my sympathy.
Cecil voted for Trump 67%.
Cheers, ‘Pod
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