“Juneteenth,” is now a National Holiday so declared by SloJo. Juneteenth is a commemoration of the abolition of slavery, celebrated first in Galveston, TX, and continuously since 6/19/1865. This is probably a better candidate for National Holiday than MLK Day was. Announcing it now just seems like political posturing by the Party of Slavery, Reconstruction, KKK, Jim Crow, The Great Society, opposition to the Civil Rights Act, the BLM and on and on. A great portion of the black community has never left the plantation. Just the ownership has changed. In all this, there ought to be a National Holiday for Booker T Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, which showed the way off the plantation to those who would take it.
“… the Party of Slavery.”
Republicans on FR attempting to politicize something that happened 165 years ago comes off as just pathetic.
First of all, the Democrats of today had nothing to do with any that - so it is weak argument and will be dismissed out of hand.
More importantly, there is plenty to fault the Democrats with without reaching into past centuries. They are Marxists, and as such, they are Hell bent on destroying the Constitution.
My beef with “Juneteenth” has nothing to do with history.
It is simply that it’s not even a word. It makes our country sound stupid. If they wanted to call it Freedom Day, or something dignified like that, I’d be all for it. The end of Slavery was a good thing - well worth celebrating.
It reminds me of the FR fascination with “bigly”, an ignorant sounding word that President Trump never used. He said “big league”.
Juneteenth was actually called Emancipation Day formally….Juneteenth is the slang name adopted over the years….Now we are stuck with the Ebonics version….frankly I couldn’t care less what it is called but Emancipation Day would have been a better holiday name…