Juneteenth: A primer
What exactly is Juneteenth, which is short for June nineteenth, and became a national holiday in 2021 when President Joe Biden signed it into law as a national holiday.
Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America. It is the day that the last slaves were freed in Texas.
It should be a day of freedom for all, since America ended slavery well before many countries on the globe. In fact there are more people in the world today being enslaved then back in 1865.
However, modern progressives want you to believe that nothing in America has changed, racial progress is an illusion, and wanting to pursue forgiveness is white supremacy.
Here is Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times 1619 Project on the topic: “White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
So instead of speaking of freedom for all, the progressives what reparations and continued race baiting to further their grift.
If Juneteenth is a national holiday, then it should be for all Americans not for some Americans to denigrate other Americans.