[FreedomPoster]

Why was an obscure local holiday like Juneteenth chosen to commemorate the ending of slavery, and not the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? I believe the answer is because making it the date of the Emancipation Proclamation made it too obvious it was REPUBLICANS who ended slavery! Which, by the way, you should point out to anyone making a big to-do about Juneteenth.

[SaveFerris]

When was the first Soviet test? 1949? Have to look it up now

[gattaca]

I wondered that myself. Has to be political. The left calls it independence day, as if to replace July 4.

[ealgeone]

Too much football and drinking on January 1 to let a little actual history come into play.

[AZJeep]

We have now Father’s day as federal holiday.
Now we need to do the same for Mother’s day

[DoodleDawg]

Why was an obscure local holiday like Juneteenth chosen to commemorate the ending of slavery, and not the date of the Emancipation Proclamation?

January 1st already has a holiday.

[bert]

N Day (2)

[Alberta's Child]

My theory is that the U.S. is following the Canadian model of fabricating national holidays out of thin air just to ensure that there’s one in every month.

Maybe we can celebrate the day MLK got his driver’s license or Malcolm X got his first haircut … but only if those things happened in March, April or August!

[ronniesgal]

my son in law celebrates Robert E Lee’s birthday on MLK day.

[FreedomPoster]

Also worthwhile:

[Travis McGee]

[who knows what evil?]

Yes! Happy ‘Fry Day’...don’t forget to celebrate this evening with some sparklers for the kids!

[xkaydet65]

The Proclamation was effective Jan 1 1863. New Years Day. And it only freed slaves in states in rebellion. Missouri, Ky, Md were not affected.

[Dr. Franklin]

The historical fact that the Juneteenth crowd gets wrong is that slavery continued to legally exist in Kentucky and Delaware until the Thirteenth Amendment was officially certified by Secretary of State Seward, on December 18, 1865. The military proclamation in Texas did nothing for these people. Just like election laws and actual ballot counts, facts mean nothing to the woke crowd. The propaganda is everything to them. This is another law that will be declared null and void when the Biden regime is exposed as a fraud.

[JubJub]

A very good reason not to celebrate my birthday, ever again!

[rktman]

Yup! First thought that came into my little pea brain. The rosenbergs execution. Still think the majority never knew what this was until a few days ago. Some probably still have no clue. Next up for fed holiday——kwanza.

[Deaf Smith]

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that were in armed rebellion with the USA.

If one reads the proclamation, it also list exceptions.

[Bonemaker]

We used to deal with criminals like that. Now they get book deals, TV gigs etc.

[ChronicMA]

You are correct about the attempt to minimize the attention that will be given to the Republican party. So the way to speak of Juneteenth is to emphasize and celebrate the Republican party.

“Juneteenth is the much delayed day the people of Galveston found out that Republican party president Lincoln freed slaves in Texas two years earlier.”

“The proclamation was made by soldiers who arrived at Galveston and were overwhelmingly Republicans who voted to keep Lincoln in office the previous year”

“In 1865 it was Republican policy to end slavery. We celebrate Juneteenth as one of many events in which Republicans fulfilled their promise to end slavery against the active opposition of Democrats.”

[DesertRhino]

Now the blacks have two holidays and all the TV commercials.

[laker_dad]

Shouldn’t it be “Juneteef”?