OK, we have Martin Luther King Day. We have Black History Month.
But wait, there's more.
Did you know there's Black Music Month (April, in case you missed it)? And now we have Juneteenth, made a Federal holiday by that 2 faced racist tripping over crabs* in the Rainbow House (he just loves Pride Month, too, doncha know).
Juneteenth, ICMYI, was a regional (very regional) holiday in TX. Seems only 6 counties ever had any number of slaves, all of them grouped around Harrisburg (Houston, as it's now called) and it stemmed from the fact that Appomattox wasn't the end of the war no matter how much disHonest Abe proclaimed it.
Joe Johnston surrendered the Carolinas on April 26, 2-1/2 weeks after Lee and, on May 4, Richard Taylor (son of Zack) and Bedford Forrest surrendered MS and AL. A week or so later, May 13, the last battle of the Civil War was fought at Palmito Ranch (the Rebs won). Thus, on May 26, while his CO was away looking into the possibilities of the guerilla war Jefferson Davis wanted (and Robert E Lee later said he would have endorsed had he known what Reconstruction was going to be like), Simon Buckner Sr met with Edward Canby in NOLA to ink a surrender. When he returned to his HQ, Kirby Smith, taking seriously the threats of the Radical Republicans to execute all Confederate officials and officers**, but faced with a fait accompli, signed off on it.
It was then that the means of informing the slaves in TX went into motion with posters going up on 6/19 and it became a local celebration in the Houston area thereafter. If you never lived in TX, you probably never heard of it.
Now Commie News Net is calling it our second Independence Day and we're told the slaves weren't the poor, benighted creatures we thought.
Like Hell. They should tell it to the men in Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Fredericksburg, and all the other cemeteries where the men of that war lay.
Like all the other exits, Blexit is making its presence known.
* See Lloyd Bridges in the Hot Shots! movies.
** Kirby Smith betook himself to Cuba for 6 months just to play it safe. Thankfully, the thought of seeing their old classmates and comrades in arms murdered like it was some banana republic did not go down well with the West Pointers in the Union Army. The chain of command from Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Custer, and on down told Congress it would happen over their collective outstretched carcasses, so peace was made.
You could say West Point saved America.
5 comments:
Today is the day we hung the communists rosenbergs. It's also the day pedo joe gave to african men because they don't celebrate father's day.
We celebrated Father's Day with a dinner, gifts and time spent talking and being real with one another, grateful for the blessing of fathers who commited to provision and were present enough to offer love and support.
Today is Monday, June 19, and I'm celebrating being alive as a human with my own history of finding goodness and love amid hardship and challenge.
The swirl of Victim, Persecutor, Rescuer Drama that resulted in the declaration of Juneteenth as a National Holiday carries with it the scent of pandering and political manipulation, making entry into sincere celebration difficult.
Appreciating the history presented, edutcher.
They celebrated on Saturday in Willowbrook IL. One dead and more than a teenth wounded.
MamaM said...
Appreciating the history presented, edutcher.
Gracias. If you want a Juneteenth to celebrate, how's 'bout the US Navy bringing a sinking U-boat into port into Bermuda with an intact Enigma machine from 150 miles off the coast of Africa?
"And there it remains, a prize of war, one less boat to hunt with the pack."
I've been on it! Back on the 60's when U-505 was still located outdoors at the Museum of Science and Industry (moved inside in 2004) but didn't know the full story until now. Also toured the USS Silversides moored in Muskegon, MI.
Have recently been listening to the Audible version of The Cruel Sea, describing the War in the Atlantic, in which the British were attempting on their own to accompany and protect the convoys during the early years, while the Germans were churning out U-boats and figuring out how to hunt in packs with aircraft as spotters. The ships and crews (especially those on the tankers) were sitting ducks and the powerlessness and distruction wrought during that time was horrific. On the worst runs, a third or more of the convoy wouldn't make it. Learning at the link that 2,700 American ships were downed by the U-boats was another surprise.
What a capture. The courage and foresight involved with saving it--commendable!
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