Happy Juneteenth!

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

Probably because it was a Texas issue. That's where it was happening and that is what the proclamation ended. That's not my country. I live in Kentucky.

That's probably why virtually nobody outside of Texas ever heard of this until the last couple of years, and even darned few in Texas.

Similarly, everyone heard of the October, 1929 stock market crash, but few seem to know that the BIG crash was in 1932.

So I think "Juneteenth" is probably something worth celebrating in Texas. But not in the rest of the member nations of the US, where slavery was ended sooner.

We don't celebrate French holidays in my country either.

Comments like this are why the complete history of our countries past should be taught. Not to make us ashamed of what happened but to highlight where and what we are doing better.