UPDATE: There
have been some recent comments for this post.
So I am moving it back up closer
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Thank you.
Wild Thing
Obama Sponsors Campaign to Make Juneteenth Day a National Holiday, Uniting the Country? It is NOT enough that they have Black History Month, MLK day and stupid Kwanzaa! Good grief!
What the Hell is Juneteenth Day????
“Juneteenth” or “19th of June”, is considered the date when slavery ended in America. Although rumors of freedom were widespread prior to this, the announcement of emancipation did not come until Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to read General Order No. 3, on the “19th of June”, 1865. This was more than two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth is now recognized as a state holiday or state holiday observance in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Delaware, Idaho, Alaska, Iowa, California, Wyoming, Missouri, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Arkansas, Oregon, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Virginia, Washington, Tennessee, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Vermont and also in the District of Columbia. Many more states, including South Dakota, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Montana, Maryland and Wisconsin have recognized Juneteenth through special day and year state legislative resolutions and Gubernatorial Proclamations.
Washington Post
Saturday, June 18, 2005
In Congress, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) have sponsored resolutions asking for a national Juneteenth observance.
“Just like the day when the greatest civil rights leader of our time was born or the day we finally gave African Americans a ballot and a voice, Juneteenth is a day when we look back on a time when everyday Americans faced the most daunting challenges and the slimmest odds and still persevered,” Obama said at a luncheon Thursday.
That quote above from from 2005…now this below:
Washington, DC) – As Senator Barack Obama makes great strides in becoming the nation’s next president, Juneteenth supporters are hopeful that the “19th of June” will finally be established as a national holiday observance in America. Senator Barack Obama has been a key sponsor of Juneteenth legislation in the senate and keynote speaker at the annual Juneteenth Congressional Reception. This year, the 2008 WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance will feature “Juneteenth, A Grassroots Celebration of American Values, A Music Festival with zydeco, gospel, jazz and blues!”
President George W. Bush has been urged by Congress to recognize Juneteenth Independence Day by issuing a special Presidential Proclamation. President Bush, who has declined participation in the annual WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance since taking office in 2000, has perplexed national Juneteenth leaders by the lack of personal public acknowledgement and comment on Juneteenth, considered America’s second Independence Day.
“President Bush is the former Governor of Texas, where Juneteenth has been observed as a paid state holiday since 1980,” states Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), host of the annual WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance at the nation’s capitol. “With the urging of Congress through the unanimous passage of H. Con. Res. 231 by the House of Representatives and the unanimous passage of S. Res. 516 by the U.S. Senate, we are hopeful that President Bush will finally issue a Juneteenth Independence Day Proclamation.
If not, we are confident that if Senator Barack Obama becomes president, he will certainly make Juneteenth a national holiday observance in America. We are also truly appreciative of the leadership Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) has provided Juneteenth supporters through legislative efforts in Congress.”
Juneteenth, or the “19th of June”, recognizes June 19, 1865, in Galveston, TX, when Union General Gordon Granger announced freedom for all slaves in the Southwest. This was the last major vestige of slavery in the United States following the end of the Civil War.
This occurred more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. Upon the reading of General Order #3 by General Granger, the former slaves celebrated jubilantly, establishing America’s second Independence Day Celebration and the oldest African-American holiday observance.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
This is the first I have ever heard of this stupid thing.
OK OK OK! I am sorry your mom was white, I am sorry you are hung up on that fact, and have a hate in your heart towards white people. I am sorry that BLACKS sold BLACKS into slavery. But I wasn’t there, my family ancestors were busy in Switzerland skiing, making clocks and delicious chocolate. Tending cows on the slopes of the Alps and wearing lederhosen.
NOW, can we please drill in ANWAR ???
United States of Apologizers?
MLK Day + February (African American Month) +
June 19th + Kwanzaa (Dec.26 – Jan. 1st) = 37 days? 38 with Leap Year too? Hmmmmmmmmmm?
When is BARACK HUSSEIN’S OBAMESSIAH’S BIRTHDAY…. ?
darth nailed it. The guilt ridden white liberals. So when do they make ‘ebonics’ the preferred language of the United States. So now we have Spanish, Ebonics, and english.
Stinko de Mayo can’t be far behind on the National Holiday agenda.
Juneteenth what kind of nonsense is this anyway. And this is going to Unite the country ? Last time I checked the only group dis-uniting the country are the democrats. Last time I checked the only group with a hyphenated reference after their name are the ‘Aferican-Americans’ does this mean they will drop the hyphen … I doubt it.
And Juneteenth will shortly be followed by:
* First Time Proud Of Country Day honoring Michele Obama’s proclamation speech of February 18, 2008
* God Damn America Day honoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s chicken’s come home to roost sermon on April 13, 2003.
* O. J. Simpson Acquittal Day honoring O. J. Simpson’s acquittal October 3, 1995 of murdering Nicole Simpson and Ron Brown. This should not be confused with O. J. Simpson Perfect Husband Day held on June 12th the day Nicole Brown Simpson was killed in 1994.
* Rodney King Day honoring Rodney King on his birthday of April 2, 1965.
When we have ‘White History Month’
and ‘Mens History Month’
Then maybe I could support Juneteenth Day.
Which by the way supports the uneducated naming of the date.
Yes, it was BLACKS selling BLACKS into slavery.
Today, it is the Moslems who STILL own SLAVES. Will our civil rights leaders protest against MOSLEM SLAVE OWNERS??
Screw a whole lot of Juneteenth days.
Is this going to replace July 4th and if elected will Kwanzaa replace Christmas? This is the nonsense our politicians are spending their time on while the country goes down the toilet. Let’s make Tuesday drilling day and start drilling offshore and in Anwar.
How about STILL TOGETHER PARENTS DAY? (for those parents who are still together and not divorced!)
or
SURVIVED THE TEENAGE YEARS DAY?
MANAGED TO PAY OFF THE MORTGAGE DAY WHILE RAISING CHILDREN DAY?
Marvin, I like your attitude!
It’s silly to keep making up holidays! They do celebrate Junteenth out here in Nebraska with parades and gang warfare! We just stay out of that area.
They get upset because I celebrate Oktoberfest and St Patrick’s Day (I’m German and Irish mostly) and I guess they feel slighted. They already get the entire month of February for Black History Month. The Irish don’t get a whole month–only one day and the Germans only get a few days.
So why are they whining?
Hip Hop Day.
Baggy Pants Month.
Parole Week.
I guess Blacks will be willing to give up Fathers Day. Yes, they have been celebrating Juneteenth Day here in Texas and it is always good for a few stabbings and shootings.
As more of this racist crap and ideas of Obama come to light, it may turn off more non Blacks by November.
Today, it is the Moslems who STILL own SLAVES. Will our civil rights leaders protest against MOSLEM SLAVE OWNERS??
No, more than likely the ACLU will argue that because they are muslim that it falls under freedom of religion.
Parole Week!!!! Bwahahahaha Tom.
I just checked out this BS about tearing down Confederate Monuments. This is PURE BS to the highest degree. So now we are supposed to have a holiday of ‘Juneteenth’ Day, Here is one who will never celebrate it. Not until they acknowledge and honor every single Confederate Veteran. Because as far as I am concerned they too are American Veterans.
Darth……”United States of Apologizers”…..exactly.
Obama’s birthday?? yikes will that be another holiday too. hahhaa Help us!
Mark, AMEN to that! The are the ones NOT uniting our country but dividing it. sheesh
Les……LOL
“God Damn America Day honoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s …” yes now that would be something. That just hit me funny.
Marvin your so right and we will wait 1000 lifetimes before they want to honor good guys. They even clumped the Presidents altogether.
Bob I agree they will probably try to get rid of July 4th.
Lynn, yes and they will keep whining as long as they get away with it and get their way. I can just imagine small business owners trying to make it and have employees that demand these days off with pay of course. Lots of money going out for lazy people.
Tom, LMAO good one. Yes parole week fer’sure.
Bob oh gosh I forgot about the Moslems they will want tons of holidays and that one where they slice their heads with big knives, oh what a special one that is. YIKES
Mark, I have got to find the Confederate Monuments stuff. This is horrible.
Thanks for the information that this is happening.
I remember vividly in our second home state of South Carolina that in 2000 we reluctantly removed the Confederate Battle Flag from our state capital in Columbia and relocated her at the nearby Confederate Memorial…and the NAACP still boycotted our state and tried sabotaging our tourist industry and South Carolina NCAA athletic
events… THEY LOST and DIXIE won in the end! And CRIME decreased as well? Go Chanticleers, Gamecocks and Tigers!!
Darth thanks for sharing about that, interesting.
Bob oh gosh I forgot about the Moslems they will want tons of holidays and that one where they slice their heads with big knives, oh what a special one that is.
http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000635.html
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Chrissie, I just posted a link to that one. Maybe Osama Bin Laden err Osama Obama err Obama) Ted Kennedy’s characterization not mine will push for that along with Juneteenth.
Bob
The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign efforts are for a National Holiday Observance, not a paid federal holiday, (for example: Flag Day). It amazes me that anyone can come up with the conclusion that we are asking for a paid federal holiday from any of our campaign web sites or materials. It appears that attacks on Sen. Obama concerning Juneteenth have no merit and are based upon deliberate distortions of the truth.
In 1997, during the 105th congress, it was former Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott (R-MS) and former Congressman J.C. Watts (R-OK) that sponsored and passed legislation with both houses in congress unanimously recognizing Juneteenth Independence Day in America. Sen. Obama was not a member of congress at that time. Similar legislation continues to be unanimously passed every year in congress.
So, which former and present members of congress are you calling racist because they support the recognition of Juneteenth Independence Day in America? Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS)? Former Congressman J.C. Watts (R-OK)? Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX)? Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)? Congreesman Mike Pence (R-IN)? The entire congress of the United States, both Republican and Democrat, because of the unanimous passage of Juneteenth legislation every year? The Governors and state legislators from almost all 50 states for recognizng Juneteenth National Freedom Day in their individual states?
As the leader of the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign in America, it is clear to me from so many ridiculous comments that we still have a way to go in America when it comes to acknowledging and celebrating our true history of freedom. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement for over 83 years after the celebration of the nation’s first “4th of July”.
Juneteenth completes the cycle of Independence Day celebrations in America, beginning with the “4th of July” and completed by the “19th of June”. As Americans, we should be proud of how we have gone from enslavement to freedom on June 19, 1865, just like we should be poud of our great acheivement of freedom as a nation on July 4, 1776.
Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. 29 states recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, as well as the congress of the United States.
Together we will see Juneteenth become a National Holiday in America!
“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
Chairman
National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)
http://www.Juneteenth.us
http://www.19thofJune.com
http://www.njclc.com
http://www.JuneteenthJazz.com
Rev. Myers, you are dead wrong in every way.
When Blacks finally decide to be Americans and not Black Americans they will gain respect for themseleves. The majority of blacks want to play the victim card, they want special days seperate from the rest of Americans and THAT is not right.
All these special days are seperating people NOT celebrating anything that builds a strong America.
Blacks need to stop this bs like this June 19th day. And be 100% American, there are awesome holidays already that celebrate freedom of USA citizens and THAT is what all blacks should be celevrating.
Wild Thing:
I believe that Frederick Douglass can best respond to your comments.
“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
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“What To The American Slave Is Your 4th Of July?”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS SPEECH
July 5, 1852
Independence Day Speech at Rochester, NY
(excerpt)
Frederick Douglass (A former slave himself, Frederick Douglass
became a leader in the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement)
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Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?
Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that the dumb might eloquently speak and the “lame man leap as an hart.”
But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people.
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.”
Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, “may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth”! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave’s point of view. Standing there identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine. I do not hesitate to declare with all my soul that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! “I will not equivocate, I will not excuse”; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, shall not confess to be right and just….
For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not as astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, and secretaries, having among us lawyers doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; and that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshiping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!…
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply….
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms- of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Rev. Meyers just to let you know so there is no misunderstanding. In a day or two this post will be on the next page and it will be unable to receive comments. I don’t want you to think it is intentional or anything against you.
It is how I have set up this blog, to keep from getting spam on older posts and nothing more. So because of that I am moving it up to the top just this once.
OK thank you for visiting back again and I ok’d your comment so I could respond to it. I would like to share this with you as part of my response. Since you quoted Frederick Douglass.
“On July 4, 1852, the black journalist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass decried the evils of slavery, still prevalent in the American South at that time, but identified forces “drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions in operation” that “must inevitably work the downfall of slavery.”
It can be found at this link:
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/May/20060628141729JMnamdeirF0.745434.html
Rev. Meyers, until this election I honestly never knew blacks had such hate for whites and even for America. Oh once at a baseball game I saw a father and his son not stand for the Anthem and I asked him why. He told me it was not his country and he did not respect our Flag. I asked him where he was born or what country was he from, and he replied he was born in Tenn. and lived in America all his life.
I let it go because he obviously had issues of anger to deal with and I am not his savior nor his friend if he does not respect our Flag. He became my enemy in his one comment about our Flag. I did not make him my enemy he did this out of his own resentment for I guess being black or some ancient relative that was a slave that I had nothing to do with.
This was a man with his adorable son and that is all that I saw when I saw him. But he did not see that in looking at me or the red, white and blue of our Flag. Nor did his heart swell with pride in those words in our awesome Anthem, “ore the land of the free and the home of the brave” .
I felt sorry for him more then anything, but even more for his son. All the men in my family for three generations fought, were wounded and a few died fighting in wars so that this man and his son could be at a baseball game and have the freedom to feel safe, and know what the words meant in our Anthem and what the colors of our Flag mean. He was a user, a user of the freedoms our country has, he knew he could go to a game and speak English and not be forced to speak German if Hitler had done what he had hoped for, he knew he could stand or sit or squat during the Anthem and he would not be punished, only frowned upon.
When any race separates themselves from another like this June 19th Day, Black History Month,that kind of thing it is a very Democrat thing to do. Not a Republican thing. Democrats are into labeling people more then anyone else, black, white, brown, yellow, poor, rich, healthy, sick, weak, strong etc. It literally separates them into groups instead of uniting said groups or races under one umbrella of being Americans. In a certain way it also weakens a country pitting one against another. Think of a fist and the power it has to accomplish it’s motive vs., an open hand with the fingers spread out vulnerable and exposed for harm. Think of America united like that fist all the fingers pulled in together as one making that fist, strong and protective.
Nearly 23 million Taiwanese would be denied freedom if not for American protection. More than 48 million South Koreans would be living under a dictatorship if not for American protection. USA action led to the removal of the Serbian dictator Milosevic ,who was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of people in the Balkans.
• The USA and Britain removed the Iraqi dictator Hussein, who was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. And we have also removed the terrorist Taliban government in Afghanistan.
• America is sending $15 billion and more to Africa to help victims of AIDS.
• American action in Central America, Grenada,and Haiti has kept millions of people out of totalitarian regimes. Of course, all of this has cost every American taxpayer big. And thousands of American military have lost their lives protecting people overseas.
The truth is that the USA has freed more human beings in 230 years than the rest of the world combined. And YES that includes those that were slaves long ago. IMO Blacks should rejoice together with whites and all Americans on July 4th, stand proud and FREE singing the Anthem and celebrate the brave warriors that brought freedom to our land and other lands.
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”
I tell you there are NO slaves in America and shame on anyone that wants to pretend to continue to be a slave.
If ole Douglass stood before me today I would ask him to sit down and listen up. I would tell him that if he feels this way in 2008 he should be ashamed of himself and to stop his pity party. That if he can’t appreciate the freedom and privilege of living in this great country and the thousands upon thousands of lives that paid the price for his freedom and for this country to stay the land of the free….. then he had best leave and go to where he thinks his people came from. Because his continuing to live in the USA and USING the freedoms that came at the highest cost, and enjoying then 24/7, and complaining about something that happened before most of the American citizens of today were even a twinkle in the eye of two lovers is unacceptable. A journalist and abolitionist did not fight for freedom we and you and others have. Wars are not won by words written by a journalist, wars are won by breaking things and killing the enemy, and God help us also praying that the good guys win.
You will probably get your Juneteenth Holiday as a National Holiday because that is the way our country has become. But my guess is it will still not be enough it never is. And the cry will still ring out about slavery and very few will teach that the blacks sold their own into slavery. Because it is too shameful to admit and so much easier to lie and blame all the white people forgetting that so many whites fought to free blacks.
My prayer is that blacks will one day stop being a wounded race and begin to celebrate being Americans. And when they meet whites, to one day care more about the person’s character or lack of then the color of skin.
The really sad thing is that if Obama and his wife win the Presidential campaign that racism will be thrown back to the years long ago. And NOT because of anyone else doing it but because of the anger and resentment that B. Hussein Obama and Michelle bring every where they go.
What’s next…. ‘The 12 Days of Kwanzaa’? An honorary ‘Chicken George 2008 Day’ at KFC? Enough!
On base today the weekly base newspaper said June is Asian-American month, but it should be in DECEMBER in honor of the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 ! I am F’N sick of this reverse ethnic cleansing of our AMERICAN heritage in this PC era of apologists…
Reverand Myers:
So when were the slaves REALLY freed, June 19, 1865 or January 1, 1863 ? One date would necessarily negate the other. The Emancipation Proclamation clearly says, that slaves in Arkansas and Texas were to be freed. Geroge Bush has been compared to Hitler, but Lincoln violated the Constitution when he first decided to force the South back into the union at gun point and continued to violate the constitution throughout the entire Civil War all for the preservation of the Union, and the Constitution be damned.
Read the Declaration of Independence, all the Colonies who joined, joined with the proviso that they could leave when THEY saw fit. They joined voluntarily.
With all this political correctness, the Man who actually signed and authored the document, Emancipation Proclamation, his Birthday isn’t even celebrated anymore, except as an honorable mention during Presidents day.
When is the White mans debt going to be finally paid in full for slavery. So far the price keeps going up. We have paid with 630,000 lives mostly all white men for the freeing of the slaves and have been paying ever since. The civil rights movement was led by Republicans in the 60’s and it was Eisenhower who de-mobilized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in the 101st Air borne to straighten out Governor Faubus and enforce the Law.
Martin Luther King has his own day, there is Black History Month, a Black Miss America pagent, which is exclusively for Black Women.( sort of a double standard, wouldn’t you agree ?)
I am not responsible for slavery, My people came here from Ireland in the 1860’s and two of my decendants were drafted into the Union Army, right off the boat, with the promise of US citizenship, to fight a war didn’t even know was being waged but they did.
So once again Reverand, when is this debt finally paid and the balance is zero.
Growing up I heard the call from Black Americans for equality without separation. That has been accomplished through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Almost from the day that act was signed we have seen demands and actions by Blacks for “special”, separate entities. Black History Month, Miss Black America, NAACP, BET, affirmative action, quotas, United Negro Colleges, etc.
Blacks cried loud and hard for inclusion, got it and now cry loud and hard for forms of separation. If Junteenth was the only, or one of the few, “special” requests it would not be a big deal. However, the constant demands for “our special” requests has become more than old.
Obama’s run for the White House has opened a can of racial worms. He is also half White and has publically rjected and scorned that race. His associations, especially his Church and pastor have been found to be adamently anti White. His wife has shown her racism against Whites.
A lot of Whites are surprised and upset by the racism associated with Senator Obama. You guys need to stop the harping and turn inward and clean up your own house Rev Myers.
I really appreciate all the comments. I too am an American proud of his country. America means freedom. Freedom from the tyranny of England and freedom from the tyranny of slavery. Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom (www.junteenth.us).
We all share the common bond of freedom in America. We may have gotten there through different historic routes, the 4th of July and the 19th of June (www.19thofJune.com), but we all share the common bond of freedom.
I have three sons in the military, two of whom serve in Irag. I am proud of them as well as the country they serve.
Everyone black does not hate America. However, the truth about America’s history of slavery and oppression should not be forgotten but embraced as we move forward constructively as a nation. This is the first step toward true healing from the legacy of enslavement in America. This is why the National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC) has established the “3rd Friday in June” during the week of the observance of Juneteenth in America as the National Day of Reconciliation and Healing From the Legacy of Slavery (www.njclc.com).
Was it a black man that blow up the government building in Oklahoma City? Has not black blood spilled in every America war, beginning with the Revolutionary War until the present war in Iraq?
So, please understand that I am a American too. I love this country. America needs healing from the sins of slavery that still have repercussions today. We have to embrace that history and move forward constructively and positively.
Everyone white did not own slaves. African leaders sold their on people into slavery. There is plenty of blame to go around for slavery, black and white. Thank God for the Quakers who were among the greatest abolitionist in American history!
The annual observance of Juneteenth Indepedence Day and the National Day of Reconciliaion and Healing From the Legacy of Slavery is the best vehicle for that important ride.
So, let’s continue to respectfully dialouge about slavery and it’s aftermath and celebrate what we all share in common as Americans, freedom.
“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
The concept of a National Juneteenth Holiday as a remembrance of a separate day of black independence is just one more “golden calf” idol that blacks use to separate themselves from the rest of American society. Juneteenth is just a false idol of black respectability that, in fact, disrespects everyone else.
Blacks don’t want to join people from all over the world with their different cultures who want to be part of the American melting pot that made the country great. Blacks want to be something different, African-Americans, and part of the many hyphenated diversity boiling pots that are destroying the country.
The Jewish holiday of Passover includes families telling the story of the exodus from Egypt after over 200 years of slavery and is focused on children encouraging them to ask questions for which they will get answers explained to them. How ludicrous it would be for Jews to ask Egypt to make Passover a national holiday.
If blacks from African decent really want to make a difference about slavery they can work to end slavery in Africa today. What a lesson to black children that would be. Blacks could lead the way and expose and challenge other slavery today in the Middle East and South Asia.
And, if the proponents of Juneteenth Day are really sincere they would focus their efforts to eradicate today’s slavery of young black girls forced into prostitution by both blacks and non-blacks in black and other neighborhoods across the United States.
Say NO! to Juneteenth Day. It is a black desire for self respect by idolatry of a false slavery god .
Rev. Myers, please tell your sons thank you for serving our country.
PS: Please remind BET and militant DC and the NAACP (and NBA) that their was NO U.S. Colonial Navy navigating the Middle Passage…How dare the Portuguese Navy do that! So much for the Gettysburg Address Abe, and the 600,000 Union casualties from 1861-1865!!
Reverand Myers:
Whether we like it or not we are going to have Juneteenth day shoved down our throats. Because of the Liberal White guilt.
For me I don’t see the magic in another day, especially a Black Independence day. This seems to be even more divisive. Aside from that, racial harmony is making steps backwards instead of forward. You have Preachers like Wright and Pfleger throwing handgrenades into the crowd to excite them and make them believe they are still slaves to the ‘MAN’, they are teaching young children to hate, ‘Whitey’, not to trust the cops, they are your worst enemy. On the Other hand you have Bill Cosby, telling the kids you got to take responsibility for your own actions, Bill Cosby says, Millionare Football players who can’t even read, Basketball players can’t write two paragraphs… and a majority of Black Leaders are telling Cosby to shut up. Why is that , Doctor Myers ?
And you mean to tell me that another Holiday is going to fix these problems?
Black leaders want the Public schools to teach courses in Ebonics, how in the world is that going to help Black children find a job in order to move up the economic ladder. If you can’t speak the language, that the majority of the Working class uses then are not the Black Leaders, handicapping the kids even before they are ready for the corporate world ?
You, Doctor Myers obviously know that too. But another holiday for the independence of the Black man is your answer. Is not that falling far short of what the real goal is. Racial harmony, judging a person’s character rather than their skin color.
The REVERAND probably is alligned with Obamanation’s militant Trinity Church of Hate, eh? Obamessiah had the wrong stuff REVERAND WRIGHT and then the left-wingbat Roman Cadillac priest spew “Whitey Owes Us” bull sh*t over the last three months and IN GOD’S NAME? This is blaspemy in a time of war – period! Beware of false prophets and REVERANDS. And in an islamofascist caliphate, REVERANDS will be decapitated first…
The richest people in the world who control the world, are sponsoring the One World Government through their paid agents. They have lots of money, they work through a net of charitable and social organizations to give the appearance that they are helping others and the community, while they use that cover to hide their true purpose and pay corrupt politicians, judges and anyone who will accept their money to further their purposes. They are funding candidates and they place in government whomever they want to further their plans of world domination.
Their purpose is to wipe out all vestige of white American-European culture, along with Christianity.
They are pushing diversity, and pushing all other cultures and religions down our throats while eliminating American History and heritage.
The reason they’re doing this is to downgrade the white race while exalting other races: illegal immigrants, the poor and ignorant which will be easier to control once the masters take over.
They are degrading our culture through drugs, pornography and filth in television. Hollywood is churning out most vile movies. Our schools are the worst in the world, they are indoctrinating our children to accept all kinds of degradation. Do not take any drugs, you will only making them richer.
Our culture is disappearing. A country without its heritage will accept anyone’s heritage’s and culture. What are we doing to stop this catastrophe? We have to protest when we see something is not right, write to newspapers, complain to your politicians, participate in something everyday to stop this immoral tide. It is not too late, it’s our duty to educate our children with good morals and love of God.Let’s pray, ask Jesus to forgive our sins and heal our country.