Don't forget it's constructed out of a complete fiction.
I seriously doubt Juneteenth was celebrated continuously in Galveston, TX. I want photographic evidence of the 1927 Juneteenth celebration in Galveston. Funny thing is, I know there isn't one from Detroit in 2009. Wasn't one in Harlem in 1962, either.
It seems like it doesn't even occur in the general consciousness prior to 2015. It's a complete and total gaslighting.
The only reason Juneteenth became a thing was because Saint Floyd died in May, and it was the soonest "black" holiday to beat people over the head with the following month. It would make 100x more sense to have a federal holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation, but that would be in September so it was too far away. Instead we got a holiday with possibly the stupidest, least descriptive name ever, and the holiday is for slaves being freed in one state.
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in September, but it went into effect January 1st.
And not one state. One city, and not just any kind of freed, but freed under order of military occupation (which in and of itself was probably still some kind of illegal). The freeing of any slave in the US by military fiat was illegal until the 13th Amendment. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was illegal and unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment was basically designed to back-rationalize all the shit the army had been doing since 1861 (which is when they started "freeing" slaves, by taking them as "contraband").
I did a custom time range on google news from 1995 to 2009 and to say the articles about Juneteenth is sparse would be an understatement. And a lot of articles that showed up in the results is there because they have links to juneteenth articles written post 2020.
I'm a fairly knowledgeable American, not a brag but I talk to a lot of dumbasses who have TDS and can't tell you the capital of new york or have basic knowledge of current events other than what youtube and late night hosts tells them. Some, I shit you not, can't multiply or divide past single digits. Just fucking morons.
Anyways, the point is: I'm not a retard and I heard of Juneteenth only after I grew up and went to Texas when I joined the Army, spent two separate summers there and never once saw anyone do a damn thing for juneteenth.
I can't link it because it's got that extra bit of code (metadata?) in the link.
Just go to google, type juneteenth, click on news, click on tools (between the search bar and the articles, and in the timeframe dropbox select custom range at the very bottom, then just pick the timeframe you like.
you'll see it ramp up around 2013 and go nuts in recent years, but 2008 and prior not so much.
Don't forget it's constructed out of a complete fiction.
I seriously doubt Juneteenth was celebrated continuously in Galveston, TX. I want photographic evidence of the 1927 Juneteenth celebration in Galveston. Funny thing is, I know there isn't one from Detroit in 2009. Wasn't one in Harlem in 1962, either.
It seems like it doesn't even occur in the general consciousness prior to 2015. It's a complete and total gaslighting.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Juneteenth%2CZoot+Suit%2C%2CFrankenstein&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=juneteenth
The only reason Juneteenth became a thing was because Saint Floyd died in May, and it was the soonest "black" holiday to beat people over the head with the following month. It would make 100x more sense to have a federal holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation, but that would be in September so it was too far away. Instead we got a holiday with possibly the stupidest, least descriptive name ever, and the holiday is for slaves being freed in one state.
The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in September, but it went into effect January 1st.
And not one state. One city, and not just any kind of freed, but freed under order of military occupation (which in and of itself was probably still some kind of illegal). The freeing of any slave in the US by military fiat was illegal until the 13th Amendment. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was illegal and unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment was basically designed to back-rationalize all the shit the army had been doing since 1861 (which is when they started "freeing" slaves, by taking them as "contraband").
I did a custom time range on google news from 1995 to 2009 and to say the articles about Juneteenth is sparse would be an understatement. And a lot of articles that showed up in the results is there because they have links to juneteenth articles written post 2020.
I'm a fairly knowledgeable American, not a brag but I talk to a lot of dumbasses who have TDS and can't tell you the capital of new york or have basic knowledge of current events other than what youtube and late night hosts tells them. Some, I shit you not, can't multiply or divide past single digits. Just fucking morons.
Anyways, the point is: I'm not a retard and I heard of Juneteenth only after I grew up and went to Texas when I joined the Army, spent two separate summers there and never once saw anyone do a damn thing for juneteenth.
Do you have a link to that google news search? I want to make a post about Juneteenth today.
I can't link it because it's got that extra bit of code (metadata?) in the link.
Just go to google, type juneteenth, click on news, click on tools (between the search bar and the articles, and in the timeframe dropbox select custom range at the very bottom, then just pick the timeframe you like.
you'll see it ramp up around 2013 and go nuts in recent years, but 2008 and prior not so much.
Yup. It simply wasn’t a thing.
Might be a good question for Ron Paul. This was his district and he was around for it.