What's the Point of Complaining About Juneteenth?
Too many are allowing the left to claim what was a Republican victory over Democrat tyranny.
Everyday I wake up and wonder what the hot new thing to wretch about will be when I look at social media. Today is Juneteenth, so it’s Juneteenth.
Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865 when Union soldiers had to enforce the law with guns. Union Army Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, which reemphasized that enslaved black Americans were free in Texas. Given that the Lone Star State was the furthest, westernmost state and still remote. Even though President Lincoln announced that the effects of rat eEmancipation Proclamation would go into effect on January 1st 1863, it wasn’t until three years later that the effects were felt in Texas. The state was still practicing slaver, particularly since the end of the Civil War meant fewer Union soldiers, so for the law to be effected it had to be enforced. Texas students are required to take a year of Texas history to graduate and are taught this. It wasn’t until I moved here from Missouri almost 13 years ago that I even knew really anything about Juneteenth. In the last decade it’s spread to become a more widely-known observance.
Since it’s so Texas specific, should it be a federal holiday? I tend to think we need fewer, not more, federal holidays but I don’t see an issue with merely marking the historical occasion. Too many are allowing the left to claim what was a Republican victory over Democrat tyranny — the enslavement of others. Democrats have been on the wrong side of history for literally every major issue. Women voting? Republican men fought for that while Democrat men opposed. Republicans were the abolitionists, the suffragettes, while Democrats fought for Jim Crow, the trail of genocide/Trail of Tears, gun control, mandatory injections with face masks, and the destruction of the American nuclear family. Of all the things to try to virtue-flex over, why is Republicans conquering Democrat bigotry not one of them? No one is replacing Independence Day with a Texas observance, but why skip the annual opportunity to remind the left of their bigoted roots with a simple acknowledgement? I don’t know about you, but we deserve to make tyrants relive their failures. It’s a double-purposed treat: It’s satisfying and also free advertising for potential voters.
Republicans have always sucked at promoting their successes. Apparently some GOPers still haven’t learned this lesson.
Hi Dana,
The last few times I read one of your opinions it seems that you have a less than adequate proof reader allowing your remarks to be posted for the public to read. First chance you get you should read a few and then have a talk with the people that you trust to put your words out correctly in print. I used to listen to your radio broadcast quite a while back when WHIO out of Dayton, Ohio used to air it. I really enjoy your flippant attitude and in your face comments. There is nothing a left leaning Democrat hates more than the truth. To them it's like driving a wooden stake in or splashing Holy Water on a vampire. I'm a month shy of being a 69 year veteran of life in the USA. I spent almost 12 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined as a civilian contractor and traveled to several other countries while there. I worked, slept, ate, laughed and cried with hundreds of great men and women from Eastern Europe, Europe, India, SE Asia, Afghanistan, several countries in Africa and many other countries and found out that the biggest difference and similarities between them and us isn't far apart. The people want what we want and that is to be self supporting, feed and house their families and live free without over-baring government and hostile media intervention. I also found a new appreciation for our country. Something 90% of Americans will never know or feel.
God bless you Dana and God bless our country...