Blue State Blues: Celebrate Juneteenth, a Republican Victory over Democrat Racists
Joel B. Pollak 18 Jun 2021
President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on Thursday. Biden said that Americans “must” and “ought to” observe it — though he spent half a century in public office before doing anything about it.
Sine June 19 happens to fall on Saturday this year, the federal government will observe Juneteenth on Friday, June 18, meaning that Biden shut down the entire U.S. government on short notice. (Remember that, the next time Democrats complain about a budget impasse.)
Juneteenth, also called “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day,” celebrates the day in 1865 on which Union soldiers informed black Americans in Galveston, Texas, that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation nearly two-and-a-half years before.
It is, in a sense, the celebration of a Republican victory over Democratic racists.
The holiday, carried nationwide through migration, has since also become an expression of African American heritage and pride.
Why was Juneteenth never a federal holiday before?
America already has a holiday celebrating the end of the Civil War: it is Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day.
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