Posted on 06/19/2022 7:22:13 PM PDT by RandFan
It only became a holiday because somebody pointed out that Trump had a rally scheduled on it, although 90% of Americans outside of Texas had no clue as to what Juneteenth even is.
It’s meant to supplant Independence Day on July 4th.
“And don’t think we don’t know how to weeeed ‘em out!”
And you’re a lying Democrat. You pretend to offer only that which costs you nothing.
Agree.
I also think that when any criminal announces, “I didn’t do nothin’”, it should be considered a confession. The double negative is saying he did it.
Which is why until Obama no one celebrated juneteenth. It’s not even a historic event since it did not end slavery or mark the end of slavery. The 1passsing of the 13th Amendment ended slavery and that was months later.
“Then it should have a proper name in American English, and not Ebonics.”
Either that or translate “Martin Luther King day” to ebonics.
An attempt at humor.
Junteenth, held on father’s day, pandering to blacks.
Immortalizing ignorance of more than one kind!
Very right wing, so they again. I’m just not a pit with like you. Enjoy.
“That does not mean I hate the confederate states.”
Good. There is no reason for you to hate the Confederate States anymore that you should hate farmer George Washington.
But we are both still rankled that the constitution of the CSA enshrined slavery. And that the constitution of the United States enshrined slavery.
And that presidents of both the CSA and USA fought to preserve and defend their pro-slavery constitutions.
And that one of those presidents added a slave state to his nation after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Do you know which one?
The first sentence is not true; the second sentence contains some truth.
Unless you mean something like this:https://www.foxnews.com/us/wealthy-new-york-widow-accused-of-keeping-domestic-slave
“Juneteenth”
Asking me to accept Ebonics as normal is no different than asking to accept transgenderism and homosexuality as normal. Ain’t happening.
My theory is they picked that date as a snub towards Lincoln because Lincoln was Republican. Their hatred of anything Republican makes them nuts
Also, to try and distract some luster from July 4th. Create a holiday just for themselves like Kwanza, all to improve self-image so the psychobabblers tell us. How does a ‘holiday’ based on nothing yield anything other than nothing?
The umpteenth celebration of Black slaves only, naturally. How about all the WHITE slaves, from the many countries of EUROPE?????!!!!! The US’s ORIGINAL slaves???? No, many were NOT free yet, or even AS free !!!!
“If Democrats had their way black Americans would still be slaves. That is their history.”
Of course that isn’t accurate but why spoil the pop version that you heard in grade school. Andrew Johnson, George McClellan, Stephan Douglas, Edwin Stanton, William Rosecrans, Dan Sickles, Benjamin Butler, John Brough, John Dix were among the prominent War Democrats either in the Lincoln administration, supporting it, or generals in the Union Army.
The Confederacy had no political parties and its people were a mix of Democrats and former Cotton Whigs.
I’m always curious if that condemnation extends to George Washington who may well have had the largest slaveholding of his day.
The Royal government issued two emancipation proclamations during the “colonial rebellion” that would have resulted in black freedom 90 years earlier. Dunmore’s and Philipsburg. Does that mean that the wrong side won the Revolution?
"War Democrats" supported the union, but were skeptical about emancipation and many would have favored a negotiated peace -- and they were only one faction of the party. There were also the Copperheads. Also the mid-19th century years were a time of uncertainty with frequent changes of party. People like Stanton, Chase, Dix, and Butler passed from one party to the other over the years. And there's the nut or crank factor involved with Sickles, Butler, and to some extent, Rosecrans -- though I suppose that doesn't matter.
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