I'm not going to quote from the angrier comments I received for my post about Juneteenth and I'm most certainly not going to publish them as comments.
Suffice it to say that some people are irked -- irked! -- that we set aside a day to mark when this country stopped letting any of the people in it fall under the legal definition of livestock. Those commenters are annoyed that the descendants of those citizens might be especially happy and show it, that the Federal government (and the governments of many states) might recognize it.
Well, to hell with that. The U. S. was among the last modern countries to outlaw slavery.* We did so at considerable cost in lives and money and it's a victory worth celebrating. If you don't like it, stay home and mope -- it is, after all, a free country. Now.
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* Almost. The 13th Amendment slips in this when abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted...."
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Why are they so angry? If it's all about *another* paid holiday for gooberment employees, I could understand. When I lived in Arizona in the 90s, the Juneteenth weekend was almost a big a deal as Cinco de Mayo. Neither of which were paid holidays. Most of the Blacks moved to Phoenix came from Texas. Some because they weren't wanted in Texas, others because they were wanted in Texas.
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