In what is now known as Juneteenth, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War is over and slavery in the United States is abolished.
A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce.
Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information.
Upon arrival and leading the Union soldiers, Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”
On that day, 250,000 enslaved people were freed, and despite the message to stay and work for their owners, many left the state immediately and headed north or to nearby states in search of family members who had been taken to other regions during slavery.
For many African Americans, June 19 is considered an independence day. Before 2021, nearly all 50 states recognized Juneteenth as a state holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed legislation officially declaring it a federal holiday.
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Not true. It wasn’t until the 13th amendment was ratified that slavery was abolished. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves within “States in rebellion” as a wartime measure. So states like Delaware, for example–fighting on the Union side–maintained the practice of slavery throughout and after the war.
You are not going to get truth from History.com.
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The first Ebonics federal holiday.
Perpetual victims.
The first Ebonics Feral holiday.
But did enjoy the part in article that said “….a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce.”
Well I’m going to celebrate with some fried chicken, collard greens, watermelon and colt 45 malt liquor!
Also going to buy cases of Tigress cologne for all my ho’s!
I celebrated by working in my own damn garden.
Shitz Malt Liquor, duh bull. Bull up and impregnate all the women in the hood…duh bull.
I may should have said impregnate the grazing heifers , duh Bull.
Met a Black gentleman recently at a restaurant and struck up a conversation. Nice enough guy, no issues there, said he worked as a truck driver. He told me he was 46 years old, and bragged that he had 26 grandkids and 3 more on the way.
Anyone who wishes can do the math on the demographics, and when you are through with that, then explain how humanity can keep a technological civilization when the population’s average IQ is 85.
If I were a younger man, I might emigrate to Russia, or maybe Asia.
demographics are even worse there, it’s full of billions of asians!
Heading to Popeye’s this afternoon!
Never heard of it till I moved to Texas, rest of nation still know nothing about it except for banks and .gov employees who get a day off . I will still see it as the day I got married, and f everyone who will try and screw that upc
It is a celebration of WHITE PEOPLE. White people came and told the slaves, “you can leave now, so please do.” Then the ex-slaves chose to stick around anyway. The rest is history.
Had the slaves went back home to Africa then white people would be celebrating June teenth today.
After the war, the white people could’ve frog marched the slaves to the docks, put them on ships, and forcibly sent them back to Africa. But they didn’t, because the “freed” slaves were more useful as political pawns for the victors.
There was a place just for them.
The end of slavery and the beginning of the end of America..
Clown world is fiscally ass-raping America. 44 billion a year for fucking off, and this doesn’t even include the cost of government sponsored celebrations like the recent White House filth parade…smh.
“estimates that each paid holiday costs federal taxpayers more than $800 million.Andrzejewski estimates that each paid holiday costs federal taxpayers more than $800 million. And that doesn’t include some in the military and postal workers. When adding those employees, the cost is approaching $1 billion for this day off.”
Celebrating Black Marxist Lesbianism on Monday “Juneteenth”
What they never seem to realize is, just take a look at most blek women — not models or showbiz ones — and tell me if you were a blek man, would you want to live with one?
Most of them are obese, or at the very least overweight; strangely, there is hardly a mid-size sheboon, but on the other end of the spectrum you have Ethiopians; so it is literally feast-or-famine when it comes to them. And have you seen/heard what passes for “intelligent” conversation with these things?
But what gets me is, somehow, in their little pea-brains, they think they are mad sexy, even after having their sixth kid by seven baby daddies (five of which stay with they grandmama). This facade is often used to unintended comical effect, especially when you see one covered in shitty amateur tattoos (probably put on by her pimp), wearing clothes which reveal way too much of her Michelin Man-style body, with ridiculously-colored fingerclaws and intricately-braided hair.
I used to think they got the claws and the hair because look at what God did to them, but then I saw one use a claw to dig into its tight hair braid and scritch-scritch-scratch. I always wondered how they could pile all that Brillo together and it not be itchy, and how they dealt with such a thing. Well now I know.
So yeah, can you really fault blek men for just using them for rape or recreation? Then when the blek men either get killed by another or imprisoned, leaving sheboons with a clutch of bastard kids, and nobody wants them anymore, they suddenly turn into hate-filled dykes. Which somehow makes them even more repulsive.
I have said it many times before: I am so glad to be White.
How Juneteenth became a federal holiday
Orange Man inadvertently scheduled a speech on June 19th and the media harped he scheduled it on purpose because of “racism”. . . because they claim everything he does is racist. (inadvertently because very few people had ever heard of Juneteenth).
Now, annually on this date everyone gets treated to stories of shootouts and casualties at Juneteenth celebrations. As if the animals needed a federal holiday to shoot each other.
I never could understand the ‘celebration’ over what should have been an insult to all blacks. The EP was as significant then as if King Charles issued a decree today concerning, say, voting laws in the US. Lincoln had no authority to do so since the CSA was a separate country from the USA. As an Executive Order, the EP did not have the force of law (unless you believe the President is a monarch or dictator), it did not free the slaves in the Union States over which he did preside, and blacks were not officially given freedom until almost a year after the CW ended. Even the General Order #3, announcing the EP in Texas told the blacks that they were NOT welcome at the Union forts. Yet blacks want to celebrate it????
Celebrating 158 years of freedom to be feral, again.
Vibrant
It’s not ALWAYS THEM. But if you ever have to bet, that’s where to put your money.
Juneteenth plays into the myths and lies about The War Between The States incorrectly called the US Civil War. The Southern planters and plutocrats who broke away from the Union were not attempting to usurp or take over the US government which is the definition of a civil war. Southerners already held great sway in the Union they wanted to have their own country.
The other lie is Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people, not so! The Confederacy was a sovereign entity. The Confederate States of America was in negotiations with European nations like England and France to purchase their raw materials like cotton and indigo, buy their government bonds and to support them in the war.
Lincoln even prior to being elected president stated on numerous occasions he had no intention to free enslaved persons or end slavery and that he had no power to do so even if he wanted to! Lincoln was a member of the Illinois chapter of the American Colonization Society that was founded in 1817 with the goal to ship free Blacks back to Africa or some other place. https://psmag.com/news/remember-that-time-abraham-lincoln-tried-to-get-the-slaves-to-leave-america-55802
Before Lincoln was murdered the US Congress appropriated $600,000 to send Blacks to South America! https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/jun/26/blog-posting/did-abraham-lincoln-plan-send-ex-slaves-central-am/
I be takin’ da day off from bidness. Not to celebrate but to be NONproductive for (((the club))) since they have decided to stick another stick in my eye with this nappy kneegrow holiday.
You just have to vote harder, bruh.
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Reminder: the legislation that made “Juneteenth” a federal holiday passed the house 415-14. Only 14 republicans didn’t vote for it. In the senate, EVERY republican voted for it. Trump also supported it as part of his “platinum plan” bullshit he wanted.
Flash- You know I haven’t wasted time voting since bread was 59 cents per loaf. I don’t give two shits about Trump or CONgress, REP/DEMS or any other criminals in DC. Interesting that banks are not closing all branches today so must not be that important of a “National” holiday.
I look forward to the day that you give up your attachment to DC politics as relevant to any Merikans.
Just put up the “The country is run by a CRIMINAL CARTEL” meme and call it a day ,bruh. Have a glass of iced tea out on the porch and say f’em.
You preaching to the choir… I gave up voting after Ron Paul’s last run was so thoroughly shat upon by the Uniparty fag parade. And , I’ve never supported the Republican Party. I used to fancy myself a Libertarian, but after awhile of putting together the pieces, I figured out that the lolbertz pack of herd animals were a Deep Shekel pwned fags , too. Vox nails it here.
“You are living in a post-ideological age. Understand this. Accept this. It is time to stop thinking in terms of Left and Right, of Liberal and Conservative, of Democrat and Republican, and think in terms of identity instead…. Ideology politics are dead. Idea wars are reserved for homogeneous societies, not multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, war zones. The culture wars are intrinsically interidentity, and anyone who is still babbling about Left and Right, or Liberal and Conservative, is simply demonstrating the extent to which they fail to understand their own reality. Social Justice is Satan’s Justice. “
Vox Day
Flash- I quit doing bidness with a HVAC company after 45 years when I pulled up their woke web site full of blacks and the usual black guy, white breeder and two niglets picture. Called a new company, great service no woke. I vote with my wallet ALL THE TIME now.
Don’t get too attached to that news source.
Texas for Trump though , BL.
If your state is for Trump then you are not very bright ,Tex. That goes for any of the owned politick puppet actors. Waste your time voting Tex, no sweat off my nose.
Where did I mention voting and how does one’s brightness have anything to do with my observation of TexasTrumpTards?
You are shitting US, right?
This is devastating in North East Texas…just saying.
Old Flash and I are not about shitting people, Tex. When we take a position, we are serious.
Dude, don’t rub it in our face that the republicans are pieces of shit
Next time, Murkins, pick your own fucking cotton.
The “indentured servant” system didn’t seem to work out very well or they would have stuck with it.
Good thing few indentured servants lived to have descendants, otherwise they would be in line, hat in hand, just like the plantation pets.
would you happen to be of a certain tribe?
It was extremely unprofitable, the whites ran away, some revolted but it proved unprofitable because the work was too hard for them, the climate was too hot and the conditions were too harsh especially in the Caribbean. Only about half even lived to collect their “freedom” at the end of their “contracts”. https://education.seattlepi.com/were-indentured-servants-treated-english-5824.html
The plutocrats tried to enslave the indigenous inhabitants first; but Westerners’ diseases and brutality killed them off, then the Europeans waged war on them to fully exterminate them. Sadly for my people once the plutocrats imported Africans colonization/expansion because very profitable, which is why they made slavery permanent until they were forced to end it.
Capitalism is based upon a consciousness of exploitation of cheap (the cheaper the better) labor to ensure profits for the shareholders. We saw it played out with child labor, company towns, tenant farming/sharecropping, prison labor both in England and the US. We see this playing out with Globalization, automation and exploitation of immigrants today.
Not trying to be a dick here (unusually for me) and there is a bunch there I think was historically worse than what you said, but did you just say the work was too hard for white men?
Too hard for someone whose ancestors spent thousands of years adapting to European climate conditions. Have you ever spent a summer outside doing physical work in south Georgia, Alabama, Florida, or Mississippi? With malaria? And not even ice water to drink?
It’s brutal work, but survivable if you come from sub-Saharan Africa. If you are from Ireland, just the sun exposure will poison you.
Yes the brutality of the colonial administrators was unimaginable especially in the Caribbean. The administrators literally worked the bonded whites to death because they were cheap and the oligarchs could easily get more from the English prisons or the destitute Irish, Welsh, and Scots the English were oppressing during that era. https://nyupress.org/9780814742969/white-cargo/ . Everything the whites did to the Africans they did to their own people first and sometimes more brutally.
That’s like saying the immigrants of the past didn’t work out, so we need haitians and hondurans for whatever bullshit reasons.
Face it, some people make better slaves than others. And that’s what ‘indentured servants’ were in most cases.
if you go to prison you don’t have to make child support
Former slaves thought they would be welcome in Lawrence, Ks but they put up a sign at the town limits and told them to keep on walking.
Hope you’re feeling better, MC.
Thanks, AP. It’s a long road and I’m 2 weeks into a 16+ week road.
biggest bunch of cucks west of the mississippi
My First National Bank of Anchorage Calendar does not have Mother or Fathers Dy, But of course it has juneteenth. The Global Cabal Banksters are doing their best to cancel family.
Whaddabout Columbus Day? Why don’t you take your biz elsewhere?
Alaska only has one bank.
Meanwhile, in Australia….
Anglophobia Down Under: Whites Are Demonized In 90% White Australia
In the relentless Machiavellian Leftist attack on European culture, we hear much about Bad Whites in Canada, England, and the United States. Yet we hear little about whites in the other large English-speaking nation, Australia. Tucked away “Down Under,” with just 26 million inhabitants, the continent maintained a “White Australia” immigration policy until 1973 that kept the country overwhelmingly white. Even today, it is 90 percent white, and 81 percent ethnically British, about the same as the Mother Country whose convicts settled it. But as Anglophobia: The Unrecognised Hatred reveals in great detail, Anglo-Australia is under sustained racial and cultural attack. Leftists, particularly organized Jewish leftists,have mounted a propaganda campaign that says Anglo-Australians are racists who should be ashamed of their history…
It has a stark message. In the topsy-turvy world in which being weak and “marginalized” is lauded, being English or British—being white—the group that created the modern industrial world and its prosperity, is nothing short of a crime. For the white man’s success cannot reflect genetics, which is unthinkable, or hard work, which is even more unthinkable, but instead reflects an inherent evil, a great sin.
https://vdare.com/articles/anglophobia-down-under-whites-are-demonized-in-90-white-australia
When they added a Juneteenth holiday, they should have ended MLK day. How many holidays can 13% of the population get?
6,000,000%
Pretty sure 365, plus some double days just for shots and giggles, also the queers need more days cause not everyone knows how much kids need to be diddled. Oh sarcasm and f them
It’s spelled ‘Joomteemfth’
No stock market today?
Nope.
the nigs get a federal holiday but the privileged whites are the working class that get it off with pay…….hahahahaha