Well, we just officially celebrated our third "Juneteenth Day."
This holiday allegedly honors the day, June 19, 1865, when U.S. General Gordon Granger, upon arrival in Galveston, Texas, read "General Order, no. 3," informing the people of Texas, "that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free."(https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/general-order-no-3).
In other words, he and his troops brought word to Texas that the late Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of some two-plus years earlier, freeing the slaves in the Confederate States, applied to Texas and would be enforced by Union troops. This freed approximately 225, 000 slaves still held in that state, the last of the Confederate States with slaves. Slavery, of course, was not totally banned in the US until the adoption of the 13th Amendment some six months later.
When we adopted this new Federal holiday, I had hopes--faint ones--that it would serve to educate people on the Civil War, the most dramatic and traumatic event in American history. That it would also lead people to the realization that the party that freed the slaves was the Republican Party; Lincoln was Republican, many forget, and the party that fought to keep slavery, and split the union, was, well, the other guys: the world's oldest political party, the Democratic Party. That same party, the Democratic, later fought to institute Jim Crow, founded the KKK, resisted civil rights laws, and went on to base much of its appeal, even to this day, on issues of race. They cannot let go of the racial issue, the world's most boring AND dangerous obsession. But, no, Juneteenth provides just another opportunity for Democrats to rewrite history.
Let me know how your Juneteenth went; hopefully better than it did in Chicago.
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ReplyDeleteMy Juneteenth was awesome! I went to work, worked all day, and came home. You're welcome, welfare state.
ReplyDeleteI do remember hearing a short piece about it way back in the 90's or even the 80's, but I would bet the vast majority of black Americans, certainly out of the south, had never even heard of it until our "elite" decided to make it a thing after the martyrdom of St. George.
ReplyDeleteWe needed a new federal holiday based on the "black experience" like a hole in the head. More division, more promotion of blacks as the sacred cows they are to the "elite", more diminishing of whites. After all, none of the promoters bother to mention that the freeing of the slaves happened because of the sacrifices of the white Union army. We wouldn't want to honor white people on this sacred black holiday, would we now.
And the violence that has happened on the holiday is so drearily predictable, and it makes the whole notion that we're supposed to renew our concern for Oppressed People of Color (TM) on this special day a sick joke. Anyone with eyes open can see that in 2023 and for quite awhile blacks are their own worst enemies.
It was not bad at all... I'm not going to let a bunch of asshats ruin a perfectly good holiday! I'm not sure we really had a celebration of the winning of the civil war before, so heck yeah... celebrate and appreciate the freedoms our forefathers sacrificed so much for!
ReplyDelete(pretty sure the goog wants to permaban me for not recognizing the progressive intent of guilt in the holiday... let them..)
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come to think of it.. how about formalizing VE and VJ days as holidays too? seminal moments in american history.. what's not to be thankful for... hundreds of thousands of men from all walks of life taking the fight to the enemy before those enemies can bring the fight to our homeland.
Deletewe can call it even by dropping 'labor day', which is a bunch of marxist claptrap anyways.
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You learn something new every day. I thought the British Conservative Party was the oldest in the world but it is a relative newcomer as only founded 1834 whereas the Democrats were 1828. However, the Conservatives do have their roots going back to the Tories of the 1650s looking to restore Charles II to the throne.
DeletePS Bring back the Know Nothing Party - what a great name!
Yes,the Democrats claim to be the oldest party is technically true. The Tories, in essence, disbanded and then reformed as the Conservative Party in 1834.
DeleteI awoke on that day determined to free somebody from somebody. But alas, I remembered what I have learned over decades....white Democrats will never ever let black people go.
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Deletewhups... pentagon overstated cost of supplying ukraine by $6b... I'm sure that money will show up any day now...
ReplyDelete... and both GOP and democrats say there's no need for more oversight of US expenses for ukraine.
I'm a big pro-ukraine guy, but finance is a big thing and requires a lot of oversight here... and that's in order to provide better outcomes over the long term. Ukraine does not need a US financial scam and commensurate loss of support among its bigger problems.
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Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, and the Global Culture War
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/08/no_author/ukraine-vladimir-putin-and-the-global-culture-war/
Went to our local DMV to straighten out my car registration’s on two vehicles. Boy was I surprised to see appointments on Juneteenth here in Californication. Made my day.
ReplyDeleteThe Holiday was pretty much a private thing within the black communities of Texas. Certainly not being suppressed. But when Baizou crowd found out that black folks had a "secret" celebration. It was time to make sure the Democrats let blacks know who owned them, and continues to do so.
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