cybercat wrote:

>> So, cybercat, what did *you* make to celebrate Juneteenth? I mean, Wayne
>> can be excused because he'd never heard of it, but your tone indicates
>> that you were MORE than familiar with the occasion. So what did you do to
>> celebrate?
>
> I celebrated by just being who I am.


Oh, so your superior, sneering tone was backed up by no REAL recognition of
the occasion. "Oh now this is a big surprise."

BTW, Juneteenth is most emphatically NOT the anniversary of Emancipation,
unless you're in Texas. The anniversary of Emancipation would be the date
when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation: September 22nd. I
note further that slavery continued to exist after the Emancipation
Proclamation in several states; slavery was not completely abolished until
December 18th, 1865, when the 13th Amendment was finally declared to have
been ratified. (The ratification itself was complete on December 6th of that
year, but we don't want to have a big barbecue THEN because December 6th is
so close to the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor...)

Bob