Today President Biden signed into law the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King day in 1963. Juneteenth will be the 12th holiday for government workers.
Although the Civil War ended on April 9, 1963, it wasn’t until two months later, in June of 1863, when the slaves in Texas learned of their freedom. That day became known as Juneteenth.
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Mark my words, the Socialists will push for the “Juneteenth National Independence Day” to replace the 4th of July. The “National Independence Day” wording was no mistake. This is a Trojan Horse, and one more step in the displacement of the real America. Juneteenth is a placeholder for things to come.
This is already happening in Evanston,IL where the Juneteenth and LGBTQ celebrations will be supported while the 4th of July celebration is being shutdown because of the pandemic.
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I think the official mispronunciation of the date is “Juneteenth,” not “Juneneeth” as indicated in the headline and again in the article.
The day the last US slave was freed to become a sharecropper and 2nd class citizen. Woohoo!!
And you still think like a share cropper.
It’s National Freedom Day, not National Independence Day. Because it’s the day slavery ended, for good, in the United States, not the day British colonists declared their independence from one empire so they could start another. But yes, for so many of our fellow Americans, this was their Independence Day.
No. On Thursday the House and the Senate voted on the Juneteenth National Independence Day act. act.https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/us/juneteenth-national-holiday-opal-lee/index.html later that day it was signed into law by the President and called the same thing. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/politics/biden-juneteenth-bill-signing/index.html. This is CNN reporting so we do need to consider the source but I’ve not located any source that refers to as anything other than Juneteenth National Independence Day. I agree the name is confusing since we already have a National Independence Day.
I stand corrected. Thanks.