The oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States is enjoying new prominence. ABC News’ Kenneth Moton reports.
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Why are black Americans the only people on the planet who are ENCOURAGED to hold on to PAST TRAUMA? No one gives that advice ("make a holiday of the event") to someone who survived rape, abuse or other trauma. Bob Marley said FREE YOURSELF from MENTAL slavery. Do you really want to pass on a past trauma (chattel slavery) to your children … and future generations … so that it “lives on” as GENERATIONAL TRAUMA … and stress … and sickness … and early death? Just look at the HEALTH STATISTICS. It’s ALL related. Juneteeth (and other things like it) are a sick “VIRTUAL REALITY” that’s focused on a PAST that can’t hurt you … while ignoring what’s hurting people TODAY. Chattel slavery is a tool or technology of PAST oppression. TODAY'S oppressors have much more effective technology. And TODAY'S oppressors … NEVER take a holiday.
Now wait……Is 6/19 the day we found out Tawana Brawly was lying along with Rev Al Sharpton????? Or the day Rodney King did 110mph through city streets????…
Why am I 58 years old, lived through eight years of Obama and this is the first time I have heard of this????????
Truth:
https://youtu.be/Kzrc985wWc4
NOT MY HOLIDAY
If ever the US wants to rejoin the British Commonwealth they'd be very welcome.
Come join us at Juneteenth we will have stabbings Shootings Lootings and burning of Buildings 😆
I Can't Breed!
It is a Texas thing……Texas History .Omg! They are blowing this out
I heard about June teenth the day i heard about Kwanzaa.. Y'all are late af
I knew something was up when dude starting talking about his own family as if it had something to do with the origins of Juneteenth.
I try to celebrate all lives. But there is sadness here too. If we truly believed all lives natter. We would embrace ALL lives. We are removing monuments places to celebrate LIVES. Do you really thing all the lives on the monuments are bad people? Don’t there lives matter too? If we truly believe all lives matter we would celebrate ALL the lives. There are good and bad in all races and walks of life!!! During the Juneteenth they were saying they were celebrating all lives. But it was actually one group one race. ALL lives matter!
Celebrating the day Republicans ended slavery, defeating Democrats who fought a war to keep it.
Wait a minute did he say my husband??🙄🙄
There were still slaves up to the 60s
What is privilege?….
Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve never had a job.
Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan which you receive no bill for.
Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility bill and where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table.
Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that's paid for by working people who can't afford health insurance for their families.
Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting your race that's subsidized by federal tax dollars.
Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only your race.
Privilege is having a television network that supports only your race.
Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling out off work and the consequences that accompany such.
Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don’t pay for.
Privilege is having most of your life paid for by the people who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS!…you know, us so called “PRIVILEGED” the ones who pay while you TAKE!
Wow, all of this thanks to George Floyd
Juneteenth is the day Democrats fear the most – the emancipation of black slaves from the Democratic plantations by Republicans
This is the first time I’m hearing of it and yet it has a 155 year history.
Happy Juneteenth! I'm sorry for the self promo but on Etsy I have stickers to raise money for bail funds and the NAACP and I would be really happy if you buy it. I WILL provide receipts of the donations because I understand ppl want to know where their money is going. The Etsy is StickieNotesDesign. Here is the link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StickieNotesDesign
Thanks to Lincoln and the republicans
God bless the African Americans!!!🇺🇲🙂🕊☮✌
Are we done yet ? Why don’t we just make George Floyd a saint ?
Why isn't the leftist media whining about the Rona now?
Fkin scum.
Why isn't the leftist media whining about the Rona now?
Fkin scum.
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Why are they trying to put the Black man as the narriative to all these agendas…😔😒😶
Happy 6/19
Demoncrats/Leftists: Go ahead… gather in large groups to RIOT, LOOT, ASSAULT AND MURDER INNOCENT CIVILIANS; as long as you buy into the false narrative.
Also Demoncrats/Leftists: Hard working, tax paying, peacefully assembled Conservatives = COVID!… WYACISM!… CORONA!… END OF THE WORLD!!!…
Let's truly celebrate by separating.
It's time.
This should have been a national holiday over a century ago
Media Rats and BLM failed to make the deadline. Nazis for civil war wanted the first shot to be fired on the Tulsa Massacre anniversary.
Mainstream media has never covered juneteenth and now all of a sudden it's a big deal 👎🏾hypocrites
The Emancipation Proclamation is the official date. Juneteenth is just when the last blacks in Texas found out about it.
A new holiday next one chuck Norris day
This is not about celebrating the black community. This is the democrat party, and their counterparts in the media, attempting to strong arm registered black voters into supporting Biden/Dems
in 2020. wake the f-ck up America
Happy Juneteenth!!!
For the 1st time
I can't believe some people in the comments have the audacity to complain about this holiday. We're celebrating the day our enslaved ancestors were finally set free, and that bothers you? This day was not only an important moment in history for black Americans but also for this country. Can some of y'all reply with your p.o.v. so I can understand your side of the argument better? I'm genuinely lost on how this is an issue.
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A person cannot be freed by proclamation. White America never accepted that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. When this becomes a reality, a proclamation becomes inconsequential. Lincoln continued further and introduced Reconstruction which included integrating four million black people into a society of thirty million white people, thus reconstructing a society. It never happened. Lincoln was murder, in 1877 reconstruction was dropped like a lead ball, and America turned its back on black Americans. What are we really celebrating?
👍 yes, Jesus said we are all the same.
LMFAO!! NEVER EVER DID THE MEDIA, HOLLYWOOD NOR ANY DEMOCRAT EVER BRING UP OR CELEBRATE JUNE TEENTH TILL NOW.. WHAT A JOKE LIBERALS ARE
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the celebration is entirely valid and whatever is desired can be accomplished, with one sort of obstruction, or resentful component, being chop. chop was chaz, back when these folks were still blaming statues for their scurvy. chaz chopped away all the ignorance and selective exploitation and contrast of legal accountability, slaving and paving the path to celebrate captain joe bidens commemoration. at the end of the day, everything is about being able to explain in a way that the folks will accept and feel proud of. like hong kong karen, heck, like mayor bill.
Rodney King: “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Us black people are free because of Abraham Lincoln , The North/The Union , and the 13th Amendment , we must not forget that at all. Enjoy this holiday to the fullest.
At least one tradition from another holiday will likely be borrowed: Festivus' – The Airing of Grievances
He was fortunate enough to have a grandmother and a mother. Now what will his become?