Perfect politicians are almost always a plant, because they can afford to take positions knowing that they will never have to govern under them.
It seems he is running to draw support away from Trump so the Deep State candidate gets in instead.
Juneteenth was a neat, local tradition celebrated in Texas, primarily by blacks. The reason for the vague date was known and the Galveston pronouncement is indeed worth celebrating if you are black. Many white Texans also enjoyed the low-key BBQ’s, cookouts, picnics and other family get-togethers on the appropriate date, but didn’t presume to take over the “holiday.”
However, liberals ruin everything they touch. Because Trump scheduled a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the Juneteenth in 2020, liberals had a big fit and whined until he postponed it. Now it’s a NATIONAL holiday? Makes sense only to a liberal.
Since Jackie Robinson never endured racist treatment any worse than today’s black players do, so we’re told, why all the rigamarole about #42?
I’m perfectly fine with anything that can be celebrated with beer and food.
However, Lincoln’s Birthday celebrates the great emancipator and George Washington’s Birthday celebrates the man who led the fight that made us an independent and then great country.
All of this reminds me of my schoolboy youth and Jewish holidays. As a fan of B&H Photo knows and my classmates knew, Jewish holidays are plentiful, as were Catholic holidays long ago.
“The celebration commemorates the day in 1865 that federal troops began enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 in Galveston, Texas.”
Some of them still haven’t gotten the message.
“We will make Election Day a holiday in the United States of America, so there’s no complaints about it.”
There are plenty of people who will still have to work even if it is a “holiday”
Works for me!
juneteenth is soooooooooo stupid. and doesn’t even make sense
If my more recent ancestors came from Africa, I’d celebrate Lincoln’s birthday with greater fervor than MLK Jr.’s birthday or June 19th.
A visit to MLK Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta comes with a chance to hear one of his sermons. He understood people.
Vivek is once again fearless and spot-on.
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He and Trump would make a fine Republican ticket.
I’ll down a whole six-pack annually if the federal income tax is repealed.
The fact that we made a national holiday JUST to make Trump look bad for having a rally on the same day that no one outside of Texas has ever heard of is probably one of the more pathetic displays of our cowardly political class.
How about Tax And Spend Relief Holiday? No taxes and no government spending, if for at least one day. Do something for the citizens, not the government unions,
I like him more and more
VIVEK IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT.
Article 2
Section 1
Clause 5
U S Constitution
If anything he speaks the truth when it needs to be in thier face
Vivek is such a phony, like with this silly stance that will lead nowhere. Transparent attempt to race-bait, while he hides his support for INCREASING migration to the U.S., and OPPOSES reinstating Trump’s ban on “transgendered” freaks serving in the military. Yet he has so many FReepers fooled.
Is Vivek taking orders from Soros????
I’ll celebrate Juneteenth if it’s done correctly. The slaves WERE FREED. Passive voice. They DID NOT FREE themselves. So if we celebrate the Union soldiers who freed them, like my maternal great great grandfather who served in the 69th NY, then I would gladly join that celebration.