Baker signs Juneteenth into law as
official holiday
Boston Herals,
by
Sean Philip Cotter
Original Article
Posted By: John C,
7/25/2020 8:06:13 AM
Juneteenth, the day celebrating Black freedom from slavery, is now an official holiday in Massachusetts.
Gov. Charlie Baker signed the June 19 holiday into law on Friday as part of the $1.1 billion coronavirus spending bill he inked.
Baker wrote that this “establishes Juneteenth Independence Day as an annual state holiday on June 19 in order to recognize the continued need to ensure racial freedom and equality.”
The day celebrates the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, freeing the Black residents who remained enslaved there more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
I'm sure the last remaining slave living in Massachusetts in the 1860's was celebrating.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 7/25/2020 9:09:26 AM (No. 490103)
Celebratory gunfire will heard all over the country. It just won't be shot in the air.
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I agree with #3 that a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S. is appropriate. However, I think it should be celebrated either on the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, or better yet the date that the 13th Amendment was ratified.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/25/2020 9:36:59 AM (No. 490140)
Musings while on Hold...
...Isn't EVERY day a Juneteenth holiday for many of the protesters?
...If slavery is forced work for someone else's benefit, isn't every taxpayer a slave now?
...Can everyone loot and burn without any legal consequences, or is that just "leftist privilege"?
What, Operator?...oh, press "88*kissourbutts" por Ingles?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/25/2020 9:39:25 AM (No. 490145)
Shove your Juneteenth and your MLK Day as well. Nobody follows his words of wisdom any longer so why go through the charade?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/25/2020 9:41:16 AM (No. 490148)
Juneteenth a holiday celebrated with work stoppage and holiday pay for people who don't work anyway.
Columbus Day and Washington's BD are out the window now spring break on a Galveston Texas beach is in.
I worked for a major oil company and on MLK day a black contract worker was assigned with me to do some maintenance work. I asked him why was he at work and not taking the day off. His response, if Martin Luther King Jr. was alive he would want me to work.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/25/2020 10:38:37 AM (No. 490200)
Juneteenth is a Texas celebration. It has nothing to do with any other State, especially NE Yankee States. Cultural appropriation!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/25/2020 10:54:46 AM (No. 490213)
The only reason the Emancipation Proclamation was not read in Texas until AFTER the Civil War ended, was there was a war going on, and Texas was the furthest state West that required someone to travel through multiple other states that were fighting the Union.
The war ended on April 9, 1865, and it took time to travel in those days, and they were finally able to read the Proclamation on June 19 1865.
Not likely anything more than simple logistics prevented the reading until then.
Lincoln was assassinated just 5 days after the war ended - his entire Presidency knew nothing but 5 days war.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 7/25/2020 1:15:09 PM (No. 490367)
Pardon me for asking a racist question, but don't they already have Black History Month (February) and BET (Black Entertainment Television)????
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 7/25/2020 1:16:06 PM (No. 490369)
Interesting move, since one thing the Dims don't seem to believe in is racial EQUALITY. "Black lives" trumps everything else . . .
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/25/2020 4:50:33 PM (No. 490506)
I'm sure all of the public sector employees will appreciate another shopping day at Wally-World, like they celebrate every other holiday. Meanwhile, the private sector employees, who actually pay the countrys bills, will have the 'privilege' of going to work.
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Some states have riots we have Baker.
He has also promised to sign a bill to reformed our police. One party rule with him as a RINO. Rioters will have no opposition in MA.