In fact, to the author, the number of states that do not recognize Juneteenth are mostly NOT IN THE SOUTH!!
The states not participating are Alabama & Georgia (both recognize Emancipation Day instead), Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi (which recognizes it on a different day), Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah.
Alabama and Georgia celebrates Emancipation day on May 28th, Florida on May 12th, Tennessee on August 8th... other states celebrate it partially with part of Arkansas doing it on August 8th along with Mississippi and Alabama (that's right, some places in Alabama recognize it TWICE!
Once again we see a hidden Sodahead contributor reveal hate and ignorance for the South by copy and pasting this part of the article without trying to find out if it were valid and confronting the falsehood...
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Eleven states do not recognize Juneteenth. Some of these states were prominent slave states before the Civil War and their residents have not been told the true stirring story of the black community to this day.
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This is obviously a blatant lie but then look who authored the original topic, one of the most ignorant and most hate filled men in America... Charles Rangel!
So let's set the record strai...
The states not participating are Alabama & Georgia (both recognize Emancipation Day instead), Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi (which recognizes it on a different day), Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah.
Alabama and Georgia celebrates Emancipation day on May 28th, Florida on May 12th, Tennessee on August 8th... other states celebrate it partially with part of Arkansas doing it on August 8th along with Mississippi and Alabama (that's right, some places in Alabama recognize it TWICE!
Once again we see a hidden Sodahead contributor reveal hate and ignorance for the South by copy and pasting this part of the article without trying to find out if it were valid and confronting the falsehood...
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Eleven states do not recognize Juneteenth. Some of these states were prominent slave states before the Civil War and their residents have not been told the true stirring story of the black community to this day.
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This is obviously a blatant lie but then look who authored the original topic, one of the most ignorant and most hate filled men in America... Charles Rangel!
So let's set the record strai...
In fact, to the author, the number of states that do not recognize Juneteenth are mostly NOT IN THE SOUTH!!
The states not participating are Alabama & Georgia (both recognize Emancipation Day instead), Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi (which recognizes it on a different day), Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah.
Alabama and Georgia celebrates Emancipation day on May 28th, Florida on May 12th, Tennessee on August 8th... other states celebrate it partially with part of Arkansas doing it on August 8th along with Mississippi and Alabama (that's right, some places in Alabama recognize it TWICE!
Once again we see a hidden Sodahead contributor reveal hate and ignorance for the South by copy and pasting this part of the article without trying to find out if it were valid and confronting the falsehood...
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Eleven states do not recognize Juneteenth. Some of these states were prominent slave states before the Civil War and their residents have not been told the true stirring story of the black community to this day.
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This is obviously a blatant lie but then look who authored the original topic, one of the most ignorant and most hate filled men in America... Charles Rangel!
So let's set the record straight since this bigot Charles Rangel wants his story to read "Juneteenth Off The Record"... NONE of the Southern states refuse to celebrate the emancipation of slaves and almost all the states listed who don't come from outside the Old South!
Washington DC celebrates Emancipation Day on April 16th when Emancipation actually happened and left it to the states to celebrate this on whatever day they choose to which most of the Southern states INCLUDING TEXAS celebrate it on the day they were informed slavery had ended. So Alabama and Georgia celebrate on May 28th for that reason and Texas was informed on June 19th. In fact, the holiday is set for June 19th but Rangel states Harlem celebrates it on June 18th so that his own damn community doesn't celebrate it on the day Juneteenth takes place.
In fact, the states celebrating Emancipation Day are supporting the day officially recognized by the federal government but on the day Emancipation officially took place in their own states.
Why are we celebrating Juneteenth in June 19th when Emancipation took place on April 16th?
BECAUSE IT'S THE DAY TEXAS WAS INFORMED IT'S SLAVES HAD BEEN EMANCIPATED! And why should any state other than Texas celebrate this day?
They didn't have telephones and the internet for instant communication so that it took time to get the word to all communities. The states celebrate it on the day they were informed and if this were to become a federal holiday... should it not be celebrated on April 16th when the federal government officially emancipated the slaves and recognized the act?
You guys attacking the South and attacking states not celebrating... Charles Rangel is a racist idiot and he has once again lied about an issue trying to stir things up and dragged you down into his ignorance and stupidity. When are you going to learn not to take anything people like him say as truth and do even five minutes research to find out if what he says is even true before you perpetuate hatred and ignorance as he suckered you into doing here.
Juneteenth is an ignorant sounding name which that alone will keep people from celebrating it when the official name designated by Washington DC is Emancipation Day and that actually makes sense instead of acting like Dr Seuss having a green eggs and ham day.
(more)The states not participating are Alabama & Georgia (both recognize Emancipation Day instead), Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi (which recognizes it on a different day), Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah.
Alabama and Georgia celebrates Emancipation day on May 28th, Florida on May 12th, Tennessee on August 8th... other states celebrate it partially with part of Arkansas doing it on August 8th along with Mississippi and Alabama (that's right, some places in Alabama recognize it TWICE!
Once again we see a hidden Sodahead contributor reveal hate and ignorance for the South by copy and pasting this part of the article without trying to find out if it were valid and confronting the falsehood...
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Eleven states do not recognize Juneteenth. Some of these states were prominent slave states before the Civil War and their residents have not been told the true stirring story of the black community to this day.
End Quote
This is obviously a blatant lie but then look who authored the original topic, one of the most ignorant and most hate filled men in America... Charles Rangel!
So let's set the record straight since this bigot Charles Rangel wants his story to read "Juneteenth Off The Record"... NONE of the Southern states refuse to celebrate the emancipation of slaves and almost all the states listed who don't come from outside the Old South!
Washington DC celebrates Emancipation Day on April 16th when Emancipation actually happened and left it to the states to celebrate this on whatever day they choose to which most of the Southern states INCLUDING TEXAS celebrate it on the day they were informed slavery had ended. So Alabama and Georgia celebrate on May 28th for that reason and Texas was informed on June 19th. In fact, the holiday is set for June 19th but Rangel states Harlem celebrates it on June 18th so that his own damn community doesn't celebrate it on the day Juneteenth takes place.
In fact, the states celebrating Emancipation Day are supporting the day officially recognized by the federal government but on the day Emancipation officially took place in their own states.
Why are we celebrating Juneteenth in June 19th when Emancipation took place on April 16th?
BECAUSE IT'S THE DAY TEXAS WAS INFORMED IT'S SLAVES HAD BEEN EMANCIPATED! And why should any state other than Texas celebrate this day?
They didn't have telephones and the internet for instant communication so that it took time to get the word to all communities. The states celebrate it on the day they were informed and if this were to become a federal holiday... should it not be celebrated on April 16th when the federal government officially emancipated the slaves and recognized the act?
You guys attacking the South and attacking states not celebrating... Charles Rangel is a racist idiot and he has once again lied about an issue trying to stir things up and dragged you down into his ignorance and stupidity. When are you going to learn not to take anything people like him say as truth and do even five minutes research to find out if what he says is even true before you perpetuate hatred and ignorance as he suckered you into doing here.
Juneteenth is an ignorant sounding name which that alone will keep people from celebrating it when the official name designated by Washington DC is Emancipation Day and that actually makes sense instead of acting like Dr Seuss having a green eggs and ham day.
The Emancipation Proclamation was to free Lincoln, NOT African-American/Blacks... Lincoln didn't care what way the situation went as long as the states were UNITED!!!
Columbus Day
St. Pattiies Day
There are a few.
My name means faith and its the last day of Kwanzaa not that i've had the chance to celebrate it.
If you don't want to celebrate a holiday no one is going to make you...
The indentured servants who served a tidy little period of 4 to 7 years polishing the master's silver and china and then taking their place in colonial high society, were a minuscule fraction of the great unsung hundreds of thousands of White slaves who were worked to death in this country from the early l7th century onward.
Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America's first slaves. These Whites were slaves for life, long before Blacks ever were. This slavery was even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved too.
Whites were auctioned on the block with children sold and separated from their parents and wives sold and separated from their husbands. Free Black property owners strutted the streets of northern and southern American cities while White slaves were worked to death in the sugar mills of Barbados and Jamaica and the plantations of Virginia.
The Establishment has ...
The indentured servants who served a tidy little period of 4 to 7 years polishing the master's silver and china and then taking their place in colonial high society, were a minuscule fraction of the great unsung hundreds of thousands of White slaves who were worked to death in this country from the early l7th century onward.
Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America's first slaves. These Whites were slaves for life, long before Blacks ever were. This slavery was even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved too.
Whites were auctioned on the block with children sold and separated from their parents and wives sold and separated from their husbands. Free Black property owners strutted the streets of northern and southern American cities while White slaves were worked to death in the sugar mills of Barbados and Jamaica and the plantations of Virginia.
The Establishment has created the misnomer of "indentured servitude" to explain away and minimize the fact of White slavery. But bound Whites in early America called themselves slaves. Nine-tenths of the White slavery in America was conducted without indentures of any kind but according to the so-called "custom of the country," as it was known, which was lifetime slavery administered by the White slave merchants themselves.
Unfortunately, the poster of this blog was wrong on several points and has created a very racist and hateful and inaccurate post, oh well.
I don't know that states that maybe weren't states or weren't involved in slavery should make a big deal about June teenth. Like Connecticut where they have no black folks... I cannot see this being a big holiday up there but.. down here.. I think we should observe it even more than we do.
I am glad to see this holiday making a resurgence.
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