Doesn't it make more sense to have a holiday for the passing of the 13th amendment when it became illegal to have slavery everywhere in the United States? Why a holiday because Texas was slow to get the message? And shouldn't a holiday be based on our greatest triumphs, and not a reminder of our worst failings? — TiredThinker
In 2021, the holiday was signed into law by newly elected President Biden in order to pander and/or keep a campaign promise to Black Americans who'd voted him into office in 2020 and are needed for his reelection in 2024.What is the reason for Juneteenth to be a national holiday? — TiredThinker
it wasn't for our elections slavery might of gone on much longer. — TiredThinker
What makes a holiday deserving of being a holiday? — TiredThinker
Slavery was made in illegal in the US by a presidential proclamation — frank
Isn't overcoming your worst failings one of your greatest triumphs?And shouldn't a holiday be based on our greatest triumphs, and not a reminder of our worst failings? — TiredThinker
This is to say the Proclamation was a strategic manuever. — Hanover
I think the rejection of slavery was evidence of a great democratic uprising and the existence of it was through great democratic suppression — Hanover
This is to say the Proclamation was a strategic manuever. — Hanover
That's not exactly a democratic success story. — frank
I wouldn't have the Emancipation Proclamation as a holiday because it only freed slaves in states that opposed the union. Many northern states continued having slaves until the 13th amendment. — TiredThinker
I know a few black people who had never heard of the holiday until it became national. Largely celebrated in Texas. — TiredThinker
By the time President Biden declared Juneteenth a federal holiday, almost all states had voted independently to commemorate Juneteenth as a day of observance. — USA Today
History is full of inconsistencies, contradictions, great and shabby compromises, falsehoods, truth, and more. A lot of pieces in the American Experience were/are not democratic success stories. Maybe, possibly, perhaps the greatest success in the American Experience is the story that we are the very model of the perfect democracy. Everything about slavery flew in the face of our ideals, but democratic processes allowed for the formal institutionalization of slavery. — BC
Well, to be honest, I don't give a rat's ass for the Juneteenth celebration -- it just isn't part of my heritage. — BC
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