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.
I checked and the fireworks stands aren't open. Those southern democrats were wrong in not telling them they were free. I acknowledge it is independence day and get attacked. Makes you look a little insecure in defending your position.
No Skud, it's not independence day. It simply marks the day, two years after the fact, when slaves in Texas learned they were free. For some reason, their slave owners chose not to share that info earlier.
The Marcus Garvey flag... Marcus Garvey had ambitious plans for Liberia as a central location for his Pan-Africanist vision of uniting people of African descent and creating a powerful, self-sufficient nation. He envisioned Liberia as a base for his "Empire of Africa," a United States of Africa with himself as president, according to the Slave Rebellion Website. Garvey's plan included establishing a grand city, similar to New York, on land secured from Liberia and facilitating the movement of Black Americans to the country to build it.
How is it patronizing to acknowledge Juneteenth? It was the Black community that proposed having it become a holiday. Look up Opal Lee. And Senator John Cornyn of Texas supported it! Pres. Biden made it a national holiday; Trump complained there are too many national holidays.
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Since this is independence day why aren't the fireworks stands open and the Boston Sympathy playing?
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."
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?
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!
Happy Juneteenth.
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. "
Happy Juneteeth!
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.
I checked and the fireworks stands aren't open. Those southern democrats were wrong in not telling them they were free. I acknowledge it is independence day and get attacked. Makes you look a little insecure in defending your position.
That's pretty patronizing to blacks dontcha think? Did you ask if you could coopt their holiday, first? Or just white privilege wing it?
My bad, not Palestine, the Black Nationalism flag. Neoracism uber alles.
No Skud, it's not independence day. It simply marks the day, two years after the fact, when slaves in Texas learned they were free. For some reason, their slave owners chose not to share that info earlier.
The Marcus Garvey flag... Marcus Garvey had ambitious plans for Liberia as a central location for his Pan-Africanist vision of uniting people of African descent and creating a powerful, self-sufficient nation. He envisioned Liberia as a base for his "Empire of Africa," a United States of Africa with himself as president, according to the Slave Rebellion Website. Garvey's plan included establishing a grand city, similar to New York, on land secured from Liberia and facilitating the movement of Black Americans to the country to build it.
They may have been Democrats then, but they were always southerners who remained southerners when they flipped and went over to the Republican Party.
How is it patronizing to acknowledge Juneteenth? It was the Black community that proposed having it become a holiday. Look up Opal Lee. And Senator John Cornyn of Texas supported it! Pres. Biden made it a national holiday; Trump complained there are too many national holidays.
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