Posted on 06/18/2023 5:40:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The newest federal holiday, “Juneteenth,” is observed this year on the actual date of June Nineteenth — Juneteenth being the combination of those two words. As with most federal holidays, in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend, it would have been observed on Monday anyway.
So, what is Juneteenth all about?
When I first heard of Juneteenth, while working at a summer job during my college days, I presumed that since it had something to do with the end of slavery in the United States, it must have been the date the 13th Amendment — which ended legal slavery in the country — was ratified. Later, I was perplexed, as I read that the 13th Amendment was made part of the U.S. Constitution in December of 1865.
In reality, Juneteenth had very little to do with the end of legal slavery in America, so the question then became, Why celebrate it in June, rather than in December?
The answer seems to be, as it is with so much in today’s world — whether it be nominations to the Supreme Court, the names of sports teams, or even pictures on boxes of pancake mix — that politics is in play: Democrats want to pander to black voters, and Republicans are generally afraid to call them on it, fearing they will just be accused of being racists and “white supremacists.”
President Joe Biden signed into law the observation of “Juneteenth” (June 19) as an official holiday of the United States two days before the date in 2021, making 2022 the first year that the holiday was fully observed across the country. John Adams said, after the adoption of the resolution of independence in 1776, that America’s independence would be celebrated with bonfires and fireworks. We can expect this holiday to...
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Juneteenth is a phony as Kwanza.
White guilt.
Just another excuse to give federal employees another holiday.
With all the mass shootings in and around the Chicago area last night and specifically at “juneteenth” parties, I think we know what this fake holiday is really about ...
Most pathetic display of sniveling and groveling by the American political class I have ever witnessed in my life.
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I thought this was the meaning of Juneteenth - On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
Fry Day!!!!
Another fake African holiday. Another excuse for whitey to make every DARK SKINNED African on the planet a multi-millionaire.
Juneteenth was a Holiday that was Celebrated only in Texas and had to do with the freeing of the slaves there.
Kowtowing by the liberal white wimmin again.
A day off from what? I say fire them all and start over.
The Lion's share.. Nowadays the government workers get the lions share of it all.. More money, the best insurance and a retirement package you can only dream of..
Yes. It was designated Juneteenth because news traveled so slowly at that time no one knew an exact date, and it was in June news of the freeing of the slaves got to them.
Just to keep the hate-whitey fires burning.
Juneteenth… it’s so ghetto….
just another commercial......
Celebrating Juneteemph because they cant celebrate Fathers Day
Growing up in the Houston and Galveston area this was a very minor thing that most people in the area didn’t know about, one of the local trivia minutia the locals don’t even know.
Never could I have imagined that in the 21st century, Juneteenth would become an official national holiday for the United States of America.
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