Juneteenth: Sorry, no deal

[bodecea]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

Texas con-servatives who were in the Democrat party at that time. After LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, they all ran to the GOP....much more compatable for racist con-servatives by then.

 

[bodecea]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

The Southern Democrats or Grant the Union general? Both of those had slaves.

Grant didn't....his wife did. As soon as he gained ownership, he freed them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

Texas con-servatives who were in the Democrat party at that time. After LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, they all ran to the GOP....much more compatable for racist con-servatives by then.

You mean Ikes bill that he repeatedly killed in the Senate from 1957 on, calling it the "****** bill", that bill?

 

[IM2]

Republicans authored and proposed the Corwin Amendment which would have made slavery constitutional. It passed congress but never got ratified. So republicans need to stop that disingenuous democrat slavery shit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

Texas con-servatives who were in the Democrat party at that time. After LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, they all ran to the GOP....much more compatable for racist con-servatives by then.

Prior to 1957, LBJ “had never supported civil rights legislation- any civil rights legislation. In the Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching.”
Robert Caro, “Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.3,” p. xv.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Republicans authored and proposed the Corwin Amendment which would have made slavery constitutional. It passed congress but never got ratified. So republicans need to stop that disingenuous democrat slavery shit.

Which party ended slavery, and which party started a war to keep slavery?



Take your time.




Oh.....and which one do you vote for?

 

[MarcATL]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

That's right never forget what the conservative whites did.

 

[Desperado]

And it should have stayed a state holiday

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I thought this was “Pride” Month?

Now we’re celebrating rating a white man’s proclamation?

How many black holidays do we need? Is anyone unaware that there used to be slaves?

Obama's ancestors were not.

 

[Asclepias]

Since black slaves were kidnapped and forcefully shipped here against their will under bondage, then why weren't they sent back to Africa after they were freed? Wouldn't that have been the compassionate thing to do? Why aren't modern day blacks clamoring to go back to Africa as soon as they can with all this talk of "systemic racism" and "white supremacy?" Why on earth would they want to stay here? They don't call themselves Americans, they call themselves African Americans, as though that's the country they love and identify with. So then, what's stopping them from going back?

All of those questions show a lack of standard intelligence on your part but then no one is mistaking you for a genius.

 

[sealybobo]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

The Southern Democrats or Grant the Union general? Both of those had slaves.

Just remember this. Today it's 14 Republicans who voted against black people.

The House overwhelmingly passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on Wednesday by a vote of 415 to 14, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk and putting the nation on the cusp of establishing a federal holiday marking the end of slavery.

If signed by Biden, the day will be the first new national holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983.

 

[22lcidw]

Since black slaves were kidnapped and forcefully shipped here against their will under bondage, then why weren't they sent back to Africa after they were freed? Wouldn't that have been the compassionate thing to do? Why aren't modern day blacks clamoring to go back to Africa as soon as they can with all this talk of "systemic racism" and "white supremacy?" Why on earth would they want to stay here? They don't call themselves Americans, they call themselves African Americans, as though that's the country they love and identify with. So then, what's stopping them from going back?

I could explain that today's black people were born here, and have just as much right to be here as you do, but since you are such an idiot, I'll just point out the fact that a remark such as yours deserves nothing more than a curt FUCK YOU.

No matter how many Holidays you make it will not change a thing. It has to come from within. The worse part is Biden does not believe in this. There are to many morons with power in our diverse land. We see it. All the nice speeches. Sounds so good. People have bent over backwards and given up their own opportunities to promote others. Progs are not of God. Swampapalooza!

 

[Unkotare]

What federal holidays should we have for March and April?

Hello? St. Patrick's Day!

 

[Unkotare]

...

Just remember this. Today it's 14 Republicans who voted against black people.
....

Just remember, YOU are an unrepentant racist hypocrite.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

What federal holidays should we have for March and April?

Hello? St. Patrick's Day!

making a religious holiday a federal holiday might enrage the left, they already want to cancel christmas

 

[harmonica]

The day now known as "Juneteenth," the 19th of June, 1865, is the day when it is believed enslaved people in Galveston, TX, received word that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863. The proclamation reads, in pertinent part:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..."

But there are some significant problems with the Emancipation Proclamation. First of all, there is no such thing as a "proclamation," and it does not have the force of law, let alone the force of a Constitutional Amendment. It is about as meaningful as a Presidential "signing statement" would be today, to wit, it was/is a President stating how the Executive department will interpret and carry out a law. But of course the EP was not carrying out any law; it was contrary to both laws and the Constitution.

More importantly, the EP, had it been legally effective, would have been a clear and gross violation of the Fifth Amendment, which states that no one shall be "deprived of...property without due process of law." Unfortunately, the enslaved individuals were at the time "property," owned by their respective masters. The President had no more power to free slaves than he had to demand that American cattle farmers release their livestock onto the open range. In short, he didn't have that power, and had he tried to exercise it, the slave owners would have had to be compensated for the value of their lost property ("slavery reparations"?).

Parenthetically, the Emancipation does not even purport to free the slaves in the Border States of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri, because, perversely, the President acknowledged that he lacked the power to do so. In effect, he was telling The World that (a) the rebellion had no effect and the states in rebellion were actually still part of the United States, but (b) the Constitution did not apply in those states. Hmmm.

Suffice it to say that the enslaved people were effectively emancipated on December 6, 1865, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

What purpose does it serve to celebrate a date that had no legal meaning or status, rather than the actual date when the event occurred? Why not celebrate January 1 (1863); it has more legitimacy than June 19th. One suspects that it is merely one of a million examples of Leftist attempts to destroy our history by claiming that "What you have been taught all your life was WRONG!"

And now we have what? The Senate passes a bill that makes "Juneteenth" a national holiday - of which we already have far too many. If they are serious, they should think about de-holidizing Christmas, which if I'm not mistaken is a RELIGIOUS OCCASION that should not facilitate a government worker paid holiday.

..this would be utterly ridiculous if it wasn't '''about slavery''''...we are in huge debt---if anything, they should be laying off government workers and CUTTING federal holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[horselightning]

I thought blacks celebrated being black on Kawanzza. All holidays make me nervous because blm is now taken to using them to riot and loot. What are they going to do on this day burn everyone out who doesnt agree with them. how many more stores will be put out of buisness. so scary.

 

[WelfareQueen]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

The Southern Democrats or Grant the Union general? Both of those had slaves.

Grant never owned slaves. He was an abolitionist his entire life.

 

[bodecea]

Republicans authored and proposed the Corwin Amendment which would have made slavery constitutional. It passed congress but never got ratified. So republicans need to stop that disingenuous democrat slavery shit.

Which party ended slavery, and which party started a war to keep slavery?



Take your time.




Oh.....and which one do you vote for?

Which members of either party who did those things are still alive? Better yet, which members of either party who did those things have CHILDREN that are still alive?

Do let us know their names.

 

[bodecea]

We should always remember the lengths the democrat party went to to keep their black slaves

That's right never forget what the conservative whites did.

It always cracks me up when morons seem to think pointing out who was in what political party over one hundred years ago is somehow relevant to today.....