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Black Americans in Texas began celebrating “Juneteenth” (for June 19, 1865) to commemorate when slaves in the state received the delayed news that they were free. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021.
Is it important that Americans celebrate this holiday? Star Parker, who appeared this week on Victory News, said she’s not so sure it is.
Slavery didn’t end on Juneteenth, she said. The problem she has “with the revisionists in our society that weaponize race continuously is the real history won’t get out.”
For example, President Joe Biden, who signed the bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday, didn’t say that slavery was still legal in his home state of Delaware at that time. He also didn’t say that the Emancipation Proclamation freed only those slaves in states that seceded from the Union. This is very important history.
Star said she’s suspicious of people now bringing forth Juneteenth as a national holiday “for us to yet again focus on race and racial divisions more than clarity, racial unity, and even accurate history.”
What should we focus on instead? Watch the brief clip below to hear what Star has to say.
Per usual, Star is more perspicacious than, as she says, all those revisionists attempting to change history! Rather than a holiday to celebrate a non-event ‘Juneteenth,’ how about one dedicated to celebrating Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in sports? At least that would be celebrating an actual event!
Thank you Star.
My research listed June 19, 1865 as the date for “Juneteenth”, a word created by the newly freed slaves to identify the day that gave them their freedom.
In 1980 Texas declared the 19th of June Texas Emancipation Day a State holiday to honor the freed slaves and their special Juneteenth.
Texas was the last state in the former Confederate States of America (CSA) to be notified that the Civil War had ended and under Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation all slaves in the state were free.
As Star states Juneteenth was not the end of slavery in the United States of America (USA). To keep Kentucky and Delaware in the Union they were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation and allowed to retain slavery. These two States DID NOT do away with slavery until December1865, six months AFTER Juneteenth.
Declaring Juneteenth a NATIONAL HOLIDAY is just another way to lie to and hoodwink the minority communities to vote Democrat. Everyone should ask their Representatives why they chose to make Texas Emancipation Daya National Holiday.
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