Juneteenth is coming up

herb749

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Ok - it's a DAY we celebrate the end of slavery, even though technically - it hadn't ended - or hadn't officially been declared ended - or legally ended as part of the Constitution - or de facto ended, by virtue of it actually eliminated. According to two posters here, it hasn't ended.

That's just the way we celebrate holidays - Columbus landed in the Bahamas on October 12, but he actually never set foot on the continent. So it's not the day he "discovered America" and other people had arrived here first. Independence Day is celebrated on July 4, but the Declaration was signed two days earlier (it was passed through the Continental Congress two days later). But we weren't really independent until we won it by the end of the war. If you ask a New Englander - we became "independent" when we started shooting at them. Of course, we don't celebrate either Washington's birthday or MLK's birthday consistently on their ACTUAL birthdays. And so on.

We choose a day and we go with it. Juneteenth has a tradition going back more than a hundred years. Works for me.

STILL think we could use a better name - Juneteenth sounds ignorant.

When will black leaders start complaining that people aren't celebrating what the day really means, instead using the day off to go to the beach.
Like they did over the MLK holiday .
 

Kyle

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StmarysCity79

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The White House commemorated Juneteenth on June 13, a full six days before the actual date, so now we have Juneteenth WEEK for a holiday few outside Texas had ever heard of prior to George Floyd. This is the same playbook they used with Gay Pride MONTH. It used to be a single day to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, and it morphed into an entire month plus weeks of buildup in May by corporate America and the media. ENOUGH with fake political holidays.




You really think everything is a conspiracy against you.

How does any of this hurt you?

Why do you love to play the victim constantly? Then cry that men are becoming weak ?
 

Kyle

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How come it's only religious leaders and Republicans that get caught molesting kids?
Ask Anthony Weiner, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, Mayor Murray from Seattle or Mayor DeBlasios personal assistant.
 

StmarysCity79

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How quickly you forget Dennis Hastert

Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After Democrats gained a majority in the House in 2007, Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys.
 

StmarysCity79

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Republican Texas state lawmaker who once proposed banning children from attending drag shows to supposedly shield them from being groomed for abuse has resigned after he was found to have engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a 19-year-old intern.

Bryan Slaton, 45, resigned on Monday while facing mounting calls from the state’s Republican party and conservative groups to step down. A state house investigation last week determined that he supplied alcohol to the intern and another young staffer, had sex with the intern after she had become intoxicated, and later showed her a threatening email while saying everything would be fine if she kept quiet about the encounter.

 

HemiHauler

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Republican Texas state lawmaker who once proposed banning children from attending drag shows to supposedly shield them from being groomed for abuse has resigned after he was found to have engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a 19-year-old intern.

Bryan Slaton, 45, resigned on Monday while facing mounting calls from the state’s Republican party and conservative groups to step down. A state house investigation last week determined that he supplied alcohol to the intern and another young staffer, had sex with the intern after she had become intoxicated, and later showed her a threatening email while saying everything would be fine if she kept quiet about the encounter.


The sin they hate the most is the one they commit the most.
 

b23hqb

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I'd be insulted if Juneteenth meant anything to me. It should not be only one day, but the entire month. They and the pride crowd can all party down together for the month.
 
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