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Home Front: Politix
Senate unanimously passes a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday
2021-06-16
(CNN)The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
Not a bad thing to commemorate.
The legislation has gained momentum since the massive Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd last year and the Democrats' takeover of the White House and Congress.

But Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson blocked the bill in 2020, saying that the day off for federal employees would cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Johnson dropped his objection this week despite his concerns, paving the way for the bill's passage in the Senate.

"Although I strongly support celebrating Emancipation, I objected to the cost and lack of debate," said Johnson in a statement. "While it still seems strange that having taxpayers provide federal employees paid time off is now required to celebrate the end of slavery, it is clear that there is no appetite in Congress to further discuss the matter."

The measure needs to pass the House and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger announced in Galveston, Texas, the end of slavery in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#12  [a teenth is a 16th of an ounce in street, the smallest quantity of drugs, given out as samplers] I wonder how many people a teenth of carfentanil will kill.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-06-16 23:12  

#11  Twenty years a slave,
was Mister 113th.
An upright good man,
he dreamed of only
respect, freedom and oh!
Maybe an Amendment 15th?

His wishes are dust,
for the wrong brain trust,
got wind of a great hustle.
And fresh off their boats,
with dubious quotes,
they began to demand... a teenth.

[a teenth is a 16th of an ounce in street, the smallest quantity of drugs, given out as samplers]
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-16 20:44  

#10  
On factual historical note.
The CSA was already a seperate nation.
So the US union presidents proxlamaition was equal China telling us to pay Reparations.

It had zero legal standing until the north invaded and defeated the CSA.

Plus the north still at least 4 slave states fighting under the union banner the whole.

So the end of the war was the actual freeing of slaves... and even then only after a constitutional amendment about 2+ years later around 1867.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-06-16 17:47  

#9  
I would vote for February 29th... think about it.
Posted by: Deadeye Grundy1172   2021-06-16 17:40  

#8  The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. The Proclamation read:

That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.[2]
On January 1, 1863, the Proclamation changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as a slave escaped the control of the Confederate government, either by running away across Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, the person was permanently free. Ultimately, the Union victory brought the proclamation into effect in all of the former Confederacy.
Posted by: Deadeye Grundy1172   2021-06-16 17:34  

#7  /\Emancipation Day, or if that has too many letters*: Freedom Day.
(*Notice the soft bigotry there)
Posted by: magpie   2021-06-16 17:27  

#6  Worthy cause, stupid name.
Posted by: AuburnTom   2021-06-16 13:40  

#5  ^-- naw - they will trade it for July 4th, Veterans day, or some other racist white holiday...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-06-16 12:47  

#4  It would take a new law to increase the number of federal days off, so they’ll have to choose whether to trade it for Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, or Labor Day.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-06-16 12:09  

#3  Can't wait to see how the festivities go down.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-06-16 11:48  

#2  Nother paid Federal work day off. Soon there will be so many of them Congress will have to have a Federal Work Day now and then.

Hope the struggling private small sector businesses are not required to provide a paid Woke day off. Only for employees of one particular race? Discrimination is definitely on the rise.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-06-16 08:14  

#1  "June teenth"

Bad enough that we have to recognize Woke stupidity, but do we really have to put up with that idiotic made-up ebonics-speak as well?

No one forces us to acknowledge or celebrate "Kwanzaa". Why this BS?

Really beginning to hate these assholes and their assault on language and logic
Posted by: Omeresh Dark Lord of the Trolls5447   2021-06-16 00:43  

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