Hey Y’all today is juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrates the day 19 June,1865 that slave in texas became free two years after the emancipation prolamation. It also represents the end of the confederacy in texas. We didnt celebrate juneteenth when I was little cause I was born in colorado and the celebration had not spread as widely as it has today.
I use it as a day of reflection cause i sure aint at work today!! I remember all the hardships my ancestors had to go through to help me have the life I live today and I reflect on how I can improve my coutry and the world for my decendants. I am the only black person at work and they all know every year that I dont work on Juneteenth and why and they are cool;with it. I read on the root. com that some black folks dont like juneteenth and I just dont get it. Maybe it is because I’m from texas or maybe its because my Juneteenth celebrations are always inclusive (even vegans in texas eat vegan bar-b-que) and we all celebrate our country correcting a huge error. What ever they dont have to celebrate juneteenth if they dont want to. I will do enough celebrating for them.
Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July”, 1776, Independence Day. We honor our ancestors, Americans of African descent, who heard the news of freedom and celebrated with great joy and jubilation, on the “19th of June”, Juneteenth, 1865.
It took over 88 years for the news of freedom to be announced in Southwest Texas, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln.
The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign has worked diligently for several years to establish legislation in 29 states to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, the District of Columbia, as well as the Congress of the United States. This has been a great accomplishment for the “Modern Juneteenth Movement” in America, reaching far beyond the establishment of Juneteenth as a state holiday in the place were it all began, in Texas, first celebrated in 1980.
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