A true occasion to celebrate

It was 158 years ago today, nearly 2-1/2 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, that the last slaves in the U.S. were freed. This occurred when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, TX a few weeks after the Civil War ended to inform the only remaining enslaved people that they were indeed free. 

Even though this occasion has been celebrated annually since 1866, President Joe Biden in 2021 signed legislation declaring Juneteenth a Federal holiday. 

For obvious reasons, black Americans have celebrated this occasion far more passionately than others. However, as Jack Hunter at Based Politics points out, this new holiday is a time for all Americans to rejoice as much as we do every 4th of July. 

 

(I)t truly is a no-brainer holiday for anyone who values human freedom to celebrate.

For liberty.

I'm absolutely in favor of young people learning about all facets of America's history, even the  proverbial warts. So if they're to learn about the abhorrence of slavery, shouldn't they also be cued into the fact we also live in a country with a governmental system designed to end such immorality? 

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