Another Juneteenth, Another Failed Message
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112864)
United States
June 18, 2022 6:09pm CST
I have no problem with the new Federal holiday of Juneteenth. I have no problem with the happiness and celebration of it.
What I DO have a problem with is the lack of the message. Who freed the slaves? The republican party. Who fought for Civil Rights? The republican party. Who fought to end Jim Crowe laws? The republican party. Who fought for desegregation in schools? The republican party. Who fought for the right for black people to vote? The republican party.
WHY is this message absent from the holiday? Because history is not important anymore, and because the democrat party knows no one will look any of this stuff up. Biden signed it into law. It's HIS holiday, courtesy of the democrat party...
Even though the democrats NEVER fought for any of the things that are important to black people.
Happy Juneteenth. A holiday made Federal by democrats, but made POSSIBLE by republicans.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
19 Jun 22
I'm so glad you made this clear. Sad that so few in America will ever know the truth about it.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
19 Jun 22
One big reason all that you mentioned is ignored is because Nixon and his Southern Strategy changed the demographic of the party so drastically that it became something very different from what it was. Today's GOP has little, if anything, in common with the party of Lincoln.
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jun 22
Happy Juneteenth to you! Let us hope this holiday begins and ends peacefully,
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@lovebuglena (52201)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Jun 22
I was surprised when my mom told me her job is giving them a day off Monday for Juneteenth. I had no idea it was a national holiday.
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@lovebuglena (52201)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Jun 22
@porwest How come previous presidents chose not to make it a national holiday?
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@porwest (112864)
• United States
21 Jun 22
@lovebuglena I am not sure actually. I actually don't think it SHOULD be a national holiday. It should fall into the same category as Veteran's Day, President's Day, Columbus Day and others like it.
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@porwest (112864)
• United States
19 Jun 22
It's just a shame to me that the people celebrating the most don't know the history of their own holiday, and of course that's the fault of Biden of who declared it a Federal one without providing the history and the media for honoring it without including the history.
What's even sadder to me, beyond Juneteenth is that most of the history of the deepest racism came from the democrat party—including the KKK. It's all left out of everything. It is never mentioned in the "black struggle" story.
If there was a strong push to destroy the Confederate flag for all of its racist connections—the Confederacy was largely democrats wanting to preserve slavery in the South—the REAL protest should have been to don the republican flag in defense of their argument. Because it was the republicans who ended it all.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
23 Jun 22
Credits are no longer count. The freedom is.
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@porwest (112864)
• United States
24 Jun 22
@Nakitakona No, in this case, it actually is not. In this case who offered the freedom and who denied it is EXTREMELY important, especially when the people who are now free now believe the ones who held them captive are on their side.
That's important because to befriend the enemy is dangerous.
The democrat party never let go of their racist beliefs nor their interest in slavery. All they did was use a different form of chains.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
24 Jun 22
@porwest That's of course too subjective.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
19 Jun 22
I agree.
Well what can we expect from an elderly puppet who needs training wheels on his bike?
And I see it is horrible to be 'peddling' Juneteenth merch..well every other holiday that is what happens so tough tiddies I say.
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
19 Jun 22
Hey, if it gets me another paid holiday, then I don't care which party enacted it into law! lol
I think we should have a Federal Rosa Parks holiday too.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
20 Jun 22
What day is this exactly? I looked it up and it never did say although June sixteenth was mentioned as a holiday in Texas. I'm guessing that's the day off this new holiday.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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25 Jun 22
What I don't understand is that Lincoln, a Republican, signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law on January 1st, 1863, freeing all slaves in all southern states in rebellion against the Union. Shouldn't this be the celebrated holiday (which would make sense) instead of a made-up day manufactured on a technicality. I mean really, at least be historically accurate! But of course, when your poll numbers are in the toilet, and you have done nothing to improve the country's well-being, one needs to find something to hang your hat on. Even if it is for political theatre. 
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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28 Jun 22
@porwest Oh, I had read it was when the last slaves were set free in Texas. Dumb name though. Should have called it Freedom Day.
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