Juneteenth is now a federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery. Although Juneteenth has been often celebrated as the end of slavery, the fact is that slavery continued to exist for nearly six months after this date, including in Kentucky and two Northern states, Delaware and New Jersey.
Juneteenth is a reference to June 19, 1865 when Union forces arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed the slaves of their freedom. Yet slavery did not legally end on June 19, 1865 but with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on Dec. 6, 1865.
In addition to this historical inaccuracy, there is another major problem – its official name of Juneteenth National Independence Day. Representative Thomas Massie (KY), one of only 14 members of the U.S House to vote against the new holiday, voiced his objection: “(N)aming this day ‘national independence day’ will create confusion and push Americans to pick one of those two days as their independence day based on their racial identity. Why can’t we name this ‘emancipation day’ and come together as Americans?”
Representative Chip Roy of Texas also objected to the name. “This name [of national independence day] needlessly divides our nation on a matter that should bring us together by creating a separate Independence Day.”
Confusion about when slavery ended has been created by the Emancipation Proclamation. The executive order freed only those slaves in territory controlled by the Confederate States of America – over which the U.S. government had no control. Slavery remained in the territory over which the U.S. government did have jurisdiction – including those in Northern states. Once the proclamation went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln exempted from emancipation those slaves in Southern territory that had been conquered by the Union after the issuance of the executive order.
July 4th will aways be my Independence Day, I don’t care what the aa’s think !!!!
Another made up holiday by Racist Blacks & their Democrat Party !!!!!! Even a Federal Holiday !!!!
Let’s use it to cancel pride month. Juneteenth celebration of the end of slavery and the white race to be the first to outlaw slavery
Probably right.
now tell us the truth about Kwanzaa!
Kwanzaa originated and was created in the PRISON SYTEM .
Pride month is highly illegal and breach 1958 Walter act rules and falls in cat class under hate crime in USA with foolish mistake and under the 1964 civil right’s rules needs be enforce and hammer and any stupid sex crap in school’s system and DOE needs to go with ATF, FBI, IRS, EPA, and DOH and all them under illegal and unlawful to this country.