Oops! Missed Juneteenth

Oops! Missed Juneteenth
Oops! Missed Juneteenth

Yep. I totally spaced that yesterday was Juneteenth, the day that Whites, specifically White Republicans, freed the Blacks from slavery. 😆 Yeah, well, I don’t keep track of uselessly manufactured holidays, especially ones that are lies propagated to pander to and appease the Blacks. I’m not much into clutching pearls over feel-good falsehoods.

In point of historical and legal fact, Juneteenth has its basis only in the forced end of slavery in the Confederacy. Delaware, a Union state, still had slaves until Dec 6th, when the 13th Amendment forced their emancipation, against the wishes of the state. Also, New Jersey, another Union state, still held Blacks in slavery until January 23rd of the next year, though the numbers at that point were less than 20. Furthermore, slavery was alive and well in the Indian Territories until the next year as well.

Juneteenth is a celebration of the completion of the eradication of the Confederacy, not the actual end of chattel slavery in America.

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