Biden makes 'Juneteenth National
Independence Day' a federal holiday to
remember the 'moral stain' of slavery and
Kamala says: 'We must learn from our
history and teach our children'
Daily Mail (UK) & Agence France-Press,
by
Nikki Schwab
&
Holden Walter-Warner
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/18/2021 8:31:59 AM
President Joe Biden signed a law Thursday to make 'Juneteenth National Independence Day' a federal holiday, starting from tomorrow. 'Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and a promise of a brighter morning to come,' Biden said at the White House signing ceremony, surrounded by Democratic and Republican guests. 'This is a day of profound weight and profound power, a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country - and continues to take.' On Wednesday night, the House of Representatives passed the bill with 14 Republicans voting against it. In the Senate,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/18/2021 8:40:25 AM (No. 819369)
How can we learn from history when the Democrats are tearing down history and rewriting it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paral04 6/18/2021 8:42:02 AM (No. 819372)
That woman was raised in Canada where they also had slaves...nobody ever mentions that do they? She has no clue about our history.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 6/18/2021 8:43:50 AM (No. 819377)
So blacks represent 13% of the population but get 18% of the federal holidays? Equity problem I think.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/18/2021 8:51:47 AM (No. 819390)
Democrats are all about division. Divide and conquer, oppressed and oppressor, rich and poor, black and white. Stoke division for votes and power. Keep hate alive.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 6/18/2021 8:51:48 AM (No. 819391)
Juneteenth happened in Texas in 1865. Biden does not mention that his Delaware did not abolish slavery until December, 1865.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gdub2 6/18/2021 8:55:19 AM (No. 819393)
I read "federal" as "feral" the first time I read this. I think I was right.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/18/2021 9:02:35 AM (No. 819399)
I fully support Juneteenth as a national holiday, to honor the fact that a great nation was able to right a wrong, proving that freedom, in the end, prevails..
So let us hoist our great U.S. flag, and celebrate our wonderful democratic republic!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Yuban 6/18/2021 9:06:30 AM (No. 819404)
Only 14 republicans voted against it? Disgusting. I will never ask for forgiveness of my Whiteness but I do ask forgiveness of once belonging to the GOP.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Califedup 6/18/2021 9:17:11 AM (No. 819418)
And all the gutless, craven, corrupt republicans in congress have once again betrayed us and voted for this disgusting, racist holiday which has resulted in yet another successful communist death democrat in your face you white racist scum Americans method of controlling our lives and as an added bonus gives another paid holiday to all those honest, hard working, on the taxpayers dole, patriotic federal democrat communist cadres (workers!). Disgusting and enraging. Damn the republicans for betraying us over and over again. Even Mr. Super Patriot Ted Cruz voted for this abomination. I curse the day the first slave from Africa was offloaded into our country.
Free America!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/18/2021 9:21:00 AM (No. 819420)
The history is that the Dimokkkrap party fought to keep slavery, created and perpetuated racism in America, created jim crow and the kkk, and now is blaming everybody else for what they did and using that blame game as a political weapon against their foes and to make sure nobody has time to recollect the history.
As kamel a Hairass says, joe’s a racist. And her family were slave owners. Restitution should start with them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BillW. 6/18/2021 9:21:11 AM (No. 819421)
Bringing this over from another article...
Been away a while, but have we explored the likely connection of this fake new holiday of theirs and Father's Day? As in, at least giving them something to celebrate that weekend?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/18/2021 9:23:57 AM (No. 819424)
Got news for you, Kamala. The fatherless children you've been "teaching" have been wiping each other out on our streets for decades. Good work.
21 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Krause 6/18/2021 9:25:07 AM (No. 819426)
The George foster statue is the new history.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
justavoter 6/18/2021 9:27:59 AM (No. 819432)
So we create a new federal holiday to “remember “ the history of slavery and at the same time destroy Southern statues.
16 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/18/2021 9:34:54 AM (No. 819441)
My question is how much longer do we have to atone for our sin of slavery - something which probably 85% of the population has no connection to? I know the answer is as long as we allow it to go on.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 6/18/2021 9:38:28 AM (No. 819446)
How ironic, in that Biden and Harris are the two most corrupt, moral stains ever to reside in the White House.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/18/2021 9:39:37 AM (No. 819447)
I have learned from history. Their parents in Africa sold them for metal pots. They would get the blame, but they have no money, so the blame is deflected to where the money is.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/18/2021 9:40:29 AM (No. 819448)
My Congressional Representative here in Virginia voted yes on this bill. I emailed him yesterday expressing my displeasure as the hundreds of thousands of dead Union Soldiers is more than enough to commemorate the freeing of the last slaves in Texas and that we don't need another useless federal holiday as there is already a MLK day. One day for veterans. One day for our service dead. An entire month for Black Americans, Another month for LG*** pride month, etc ad nauseum.
And I share part of an email a friend received yesterday who works for the Dept of Transportation/Secretary Butigieg:
This date marks an occasion to reflect on the enduring legacy of slavery in this country. The corrosive repercussions of slavery and Jim Crow are still all too apparent today, and the machinery of segregation is still embedded in our lives—including many dimensions of transportation infrastructure, where disparities have had a profound effect on job access, educational outcomes, and economic participation.
Still, there is much to celebrate. The Biden-Harris Administration is ready to support Black communities across America to realize their own dreams for the future. For our part, this Department will continue working to ensure that all Americans can move freely and without fear, by delivering safe, equitable access to transportation.
We would also do well to remember Black Americans' role in building this country. Emerging from centuries of wrenching grief and hardship, Black voices have added in innumerable ways to culture and science; governance and policy; art and activism. These contributions reverberate across the history, a history that we recognize in new ways with this Federal observation of what happened 156 years ago.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
marbles 6/18/2021 9:40:58 AM (No. 819449)
Does this mean no mail today ?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/18/2021 9:56:19 AM (No. 819480)
Another federal holiday gimme to the bulk of federal workers. I’ll be working.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/18/2021 9:56:59 AM (No. 819482)
I have personally been recognizing Juneteenth for decades. As a history geek I have long considered this a significant milestone albeit obscure event.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
navybrat 6/18/2021 9:59:39 AM (No. 819487)
Soon we will have more holidays than work days. How can anyone afford to hire people to have a business.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/18/2021 10:05:39 AM (No. 819494)
Another 'donuffin' day for the cadre of federal 'donuffins!' What day will we celebrate, since the holiday falls on a Saturday this year?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/18/2021 10:22:07 AM (No. 819517)
What does this Jamaican-Indian know about American History?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
envirodude 6/18/2021 10:27:24 AM (No. 819522)
Way to spit in the faces of the alphabets. They cede an entire week of “embrace our decadence month” to freed texans
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
downnout 6/18/2021 10:28:46 AM (No. 819525)
So we must atone for the sins of the past by telling our innocent children that if they are white, they are racists and must acquiesce to blacks on everything.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/18/2021 10:50:29 AM (No. 819537)
Notice that Biden has prohibited July 4th events at Mount Rushmore. Standby for a delayed Juneteenth celebration to take its place.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/18/2021 10:55:13 AM (No. 819538)
Biden's Juneteenth speech came up on TV yesterday. We changed the channel. Don't want to hear it. We ended slavery, and made it illegal. There is nothing else to do. You cannot wash away the sin of slavery. There are things that cannot be walked back, and reparations won't 'fix' anything.
A day set aside to remember the events of 9/11 is more appropriate than Juneteenth. If they are going to remember Juneteenth, they should also remember 9/11. Perhaps that is the message to send Congress and our BS President.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/18/2021 10:57:40 AM (No. 819540)
America is finally back to work, and Slo Joe told 2.1 million federal workers at 5 o'clock yesterday to not come to work today. Because timing of propaganda is fare more important than real people's lives.
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Did Joke even know what Joonteenph was unless some aide shoved this under his nose Thursday and told him to sign it? I don't seem to recall him ever mentioning it before.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Namma 6/18/2021 11:25:12 AM (No. 819559)
It was the democrats who woukd not free the slaves after the emancipation proclamation
The Dems in Texas refused to free the slaves. But will now be praised for making this a holiday. Black people need to wake up
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
padiva 6/18/2021 11:43:27 AM (No. 819577)
Symbolism over substance.
What is being done to help the people who are enslaved today?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NYBruin 6/18/2021 11:54:44 AM (No. 819583)
#13 - George Foster the baseball player? I'd support a statue for him!! (/sarc)
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/18/2021 12:20:25 PM (No. 819599)
Remember it was President Trump last year who first proposed that Congress designate June 19th as being a national holiday named Juneteenth, National Emancipation Day, after which the Democrat Congress took no action.
But now Biden and Harris are taking credit for the Democrat Congress just designating June 19th as Juneteenth, National Independence Day, as a new national holiday. That designation by the Democrat Congress was designed to diminish and encroach upon July 4th which as always been known as Independence Day for all of America.
Any reading of history will show that it was on June 19th in a year following the 1860’s US Civil War, was the date that the last slaves in Texas were told by the US Army operating under the American flag, that they had been emancipated by President Lincoln, and were no longer considered to be slaves. A historic happening that became memorialized in Black communities that has been celebrated by those communities as “Juneteenth”. There was never any indication that the Black people of those times ever considered that they had ever gained independence from the USA. Obviously the Democrat’s reason for designating Juneteenth as the special “Independence Day” rather than as being “Emancipation Day” for Black people who descended from slaves, is just another effort by the Democrats to separate as much of the Black population as possible from the rest of the greater US population who will continue to celebrate July 4th as Independence Day. The reason that the Democrats did that is obviously for the Democrat partisan political purpose of keeping low information Black people locked in as leftist and socialist oriented future Democrat voters.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DARling 6/18/2021 12:32:32 PM (No. 819617)
We have a national independence day. It is called the 4th of July. I will throw any calendar in the trash that has blasted Juneteenth as Independence Day.
I just wonder when the blacks will whine that white people get a paid day off on a "black" holiday.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/18/2021 12:38:28 PM (No. 819623)
It’s actually the day the democrats lost the civil war and lost the right to own slaves.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
hershey 6/18/2021 12:40:54 PM (No. 819627)
As of 2000, blacks were 12.1% of the population of the United States...its ludicrous...41.6% of blacks participate in welfare programs...that means I guess, the others work...small percentage to get another black holiday...and the non workers still don't work so what is the point? Oh, wait, buying more black votes I guess....
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2021 12:48:24 PM (No. 819638)
Hogwash. This was over 150+ years ago. Demagogery of the worst kind. Typical Dem garbage.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
davew 6/18/2021 12:49:54 PM (No. 819640)
An interesting buried line in the article shows how sensitive the right is to being attacked as racist.
Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana said an effort by the left' to push 'identity politics'.
'Let's call an ace an ace,' the lawmaker said on Wednesday. 'This is an effort by the left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make 'critical race theory' the reigning ideology of our country.
Rosendale obviously was thinking of using the actual "Let's call a spade a spade" quote that has always referred to the playing card suit but he realized that he would be attacked for being a racist if he did. This is how the left works. They control the language which controls how people think
The date of real historic significance should be January 1, 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln making slavery illegal in all the United States. Juneteenth was promoted because it originated in Texas which the left considers a white racist bastion of Trump supporters. Everything is politics with these people. Welcome to the real "Truman Show".
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/18/2021 1:25:39 PM (No. 819673)
#7, I fully support it too - as a national holiday to celebrate the day that the Republicans freed the last of the slaves from their Democrat masters.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
RussZilla 6/18/2021 1:25:47 PM (No. 819674)
A little bit of knowledge goes a long way, and this proves it.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/18/2021 2:03:47 PM (No. 819723)
#3; and the whole month of February, all commercials and most media.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/18/2021 2:22:09 PM (No. 819743)
Maybe, just maybe, after they start teaching more about why it took so long for them to notify those in Texas that slaves were free, they'll also start to see how it was those same Democrats in the South who bargained for the opportunity to punish African-Americans.
How Democrats in 1877 gave up their challenges to the 1876 Presidential election and allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to be sworn-in, after being promised the Feds would leave the South where they were enforcing the Reconstruction Era progress.
This allowed them to install laws and regulations that became known as "JIm Crow" laws.
This is the history of the Democrat Party.
Highly recommend watching the History Channel's mini-series, GRANT.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/18/2021 5:24:08 PM (No. 819885)
#39, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves, but only in Confederate states.
Lincoln believed that freeing the slaves in Confederate states would cause them to rise up in revolt against their masters.
The slaves did not rise up in any appreciable numbers.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/19/2021 12:04:10 AM (No. 820192)
Hey Camel Toe, is that 'History' you're referring to before or AFTER your Commie Buddies reimagine/rewrite it?
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