Why do you think there won't be fireworks and music celebrating today? Why did you bother to post snark about this important federal holiday? Does this upset you the way Pride Month upset you? Why is that.
BTW, there WILL be fireworks in various parts of this city. Two nights ago there were fireworks in my part of the city:
"The Boston Landmarks Orchestra is hosting a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 14, at 3 p.m. at The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center."
Does skudrunner know that Texas took 2 years to tell their enslaved people that they were free? That they were enslaved for 2 years more than was legal?
Why would Texas do that? Keep people enslaved and all the horror that meant for 2 more years? Two years of their lives that they could never get back. What about those slaves who died during those 2 years not knowing they were free AMERICANS? Is there no compassion in MAGA hearts for that history? Just mean remarks about acknowledging what happened to thousands and thousands of Americans? THEY WERE AMERICANS!!!!!!
It's history that people like skud and MAGA don't want to face!
I think many Americans don't know about that history. Keeping people enslaved after they were emancipated. Inhumane!
"Thursday is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln had issued more than two years earlier, on Jan. 1, 1863. Various events were planned across the country and some took the current politically and racially charged climate into account. In Bend, Ore., planners of the annual Juneteenth festival said they took a different approach this year. "Cautious. Cautious would probably be a good word," Kenneth Adams, one of the planners, said of holding this year's event at a public park. He and other organizers were concerned about safety. In West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice said state employees would no longer get Juneteenth as a paid holiday. That includes Ray Whiting, who has helped plan a Juneteenth parade and festival in Charleston for the past four years. "I am disappointed in the governor's decision," Whiting said. "So we moved the event to Friday. That way people won't miss [it]. And all parties can celebrate." In Nashville, organizers of the "Juneteenth615" festival say it's their biggest year yet. "
I think some of these MAGA sheeple would welcome slavery if they had it in their power to bring it back. They'd certainly wekcome a return to Jim Crow laws.
Since this is independence day why aren't the fireworks stands open and the Boston Sympathy playing?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think there won't be fireworks and music celebrating today? Why did you bother to post snark about this important federal holiday? Does this upset you the way Pride Month upset you? Why is that.
DeleteBTW, there WILL be fireworks in various parts of this city. Two nights ago there were fireworks in my part of the city:
"The Boston Landmarks Orchestra is hosting a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 14, at 3 p.m. at The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center."
We've had a 6-day celebration!
Happy Juneteenth!
Does skudrunner know that Texas took 2 years to tell their enslaved people that they were free? That they were enslaved for 2 years more than was legal?
ReplyDeleteWhy would Texas do that? Keep people enslaved and all the horror that meant for 2 more years? Two years of their lives that they could never get back. What about those slaves who died during those 2 years not knowing they were free AMERICANS? Is there no compassion in MAGA hearts for that history? Just mean remarks about acknowledging what happened to thousands and thousands of Americans? THEY WERE AMERICANS!!!!!!
It's history that people like skud and MAGA don't want to face!
Happy Juneteenth.
I think many Americans don't know about that history. Keeping people enslaved after they were emancipated. Inhumane!
Delete"Thursday is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free.
They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln had issued more than two years earlier, on Jan. 1, 1863.
Various events were planned across the country and some took the current politically and racially charged climate into account.
In Bend, Ore., planners of the annual Juneteenth festival said they took a different approach this year.
"Cautious. Cautious would probably be a good word," Kenneth Adams, one of the planners, said of holding this year's event at a public park. He and other organizers were concerned about safety.
In West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice said state employees would no longer get Juneteenth as a paid holiday. That includes Ray Whiting, who has helped plan a Juneteenth parade and festival in Charleston for the past four years.
"I am disappointed in the governor's decision," Whiting said.
"So we moved the event to Friday. That way people won't miss [it]. And all parties can celebrate."
In Nashville, organizers of the "Juneteenth615" festival say it's their biggest year yet. "
Happy Juneteeth!
ReplyDeleteI think some of these MAGA sheeple would welcome slavery if they had it in their power to bring it back. They'd certainly wekcome a return to Jim Crow laws.