Only in America…spend as much time as you want rioting and looting, and for yer efforts, you can get a day that NO ONE ever heard of before declared a national holiday.
It’s always been known in Texas – it started here because the news was so slow in arriving back then. Everyone traveled by boat so with blockades etc it took 2 years to get the word to Galveston and the rest of the state. I have black friends who refused to celebrate Juneteenth because it wasn’t the real deal. It’s been a State holiday here for a long time and hasn’t been a problem for anyone. Until Trump scheduled a rally in – gasp! -Tulsa! It’s all theater.
Thanks, bud. I had heard that it took two years for the news of emancipation to reach Texas, but didn’t know the real reason why. The way the media spins it, the news was hidden on purpose.
And thanks for the info on Juneteenth. Maybe it’s a southern thing, since I’ve never heard of it before. And I don’t know anyone around here that knew of it, either. Maybe because, like you said, nobody had a problem with it where yer at…until Trump stuck his thumb in every black person’s eye by holding the rally in Tulsa. Or at least that’s what the media would have us believe. Theater, indeed.
All my life I thought it was only celebrated here. Not sure why it should be a national holiday, when the rest of the country had it for 2 years, but whatever.
The pest thing about the Emancipation Proclamation is it “freed the slaves” in the States it did not control, but not the slaves in States it did control.
General Ulysses S. Grant owned a plantation full of slaves in Kentucky at the end of the War that his wife inherited, but Robert E.Lee had freed his slaves long before, though some stayed with the family for many years after.
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Only in America…spend as much time as you want rioting and looting, and for yer efforts, you can get a day that NO ONE ever heard of before declared a national holiday.
It’s always been known in Texas – it started here because the news was so slow in arriving back then. Everyone traveled by boat so with blockades etc it took 2 years to get the word to Galveston and the rest of the state. I have black friends who refused to celebrate Juneteenth because it wasn’t the real deal. It’s been a State holiday here for a long time and hasn’t been a problem for anyone. Until Trump scheduled a rally in – gasp! -Tulsa! It’s all theater.
Thanks, bud. I had heard that it took two years for the news of emancipation to reach Texas, but didn’t know the real reason why. The way the media spins it, the news was hidden on purpose.
And thanks for the info on Juneteenth. Maybe it’s a southern thing, since I’ve never heard of it before. And I don’t know anyone around here that knew of it, either. Maybe because, like you said, nobody had a problem with it where yer at…until Trump stuck his thumb in every black person’s eye by holding the rally in Tulsa. Or at least that’s what the media would have us believe. Theater, indeed.
All my life I thought it was only celebrated here. Not sure why it should be a national holiday, when the rest of the country had it for 2 years, but whatever.
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The pest thing about the Emancipation Proclamation is it “freed the slaves” in the States it did not control, but not the slaves in States it did control.
General Ulysses S. Grant owned a plantation full of slaves in Kentucky at the end of the War that his wife inherited, but Robert E.Lee had freed his slaves long before, though some stayed with the family for many years after.