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I didn’t know much about today’s national holiday so I invested a few minutes. Background information about “Juneteenth” from Wikipedia. I found this element fascinating.
“Deriving its name from combining June and nineteenth, it is celebrated on the anniversary of the order by Major General Gordon Granger
proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865 (two and a half years after the
Emancipation Proclamation.)”Two and a half years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation? Why did Biden think we need a different date to celebrate? I resist these efforts to modify our history for largely political purposes.
And by the way, the General was a white, Republican who served in the civil war. Simple facts that don’t get noticed much as we celebrate “Black Independence Day”?
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long
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