Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863.
(juneteethnationalday.com)
Like he does with everything, Trump has succeeded in making media coverage of this historic day all about him – Lincoln, to say nothing of the emancipated slaves and their descendants, be damned. But to comment beyond the quote above risks defiling the solemnity of this occasion with irrepressible anti-Trump invective.
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