Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> 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;

Well, sure -- the EP only addressed slavery in states that were in
cessession from the Union. It didn't cover slaves in non-Confederate
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...)


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