NBRA: Celebration of Black Freedom
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Rose @ 3:25 pm
From Frances Rice <http://www.nbra.info/>:
*Commemoration of Juneteenth -- The Celebration of Black Freedom
By Frances Rice*
As we celebrate Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or
Emancipation Day, it is fitting that we pause to recognize the
origin of this important part of our African American heritage.
June 19th marks the day in 1865 when word reached blacks in Texas
that slavery in the United States had been abolished. More than two
years earlier, on January 1, 1863, Republican President Abraham
Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
...News of the proclamation officially reached Texas on June 19,
1865, when Union General Gordon Granger, backed by nearly 2,000
troops, arrived in the city of Galveston and publicly announced that
slavery in the United States had ended. Republicans had passed the
Thirteenth Amendment on January 31, 1865 that was ratified on
December 6, 1865 to abolish slavery in the United States.
...Juneteenth commemorations began in Texas in 1866. Within a few
years they had spread to other states and became an annual
tradition, celebrating freedom for blacks in addition to many other
themes, including education, self-improvement, African American
accomplishments throughout history, and tolerance and respect for
all cultures.
The racial divisiveness prevalent today would not exist if the
Democrats in control of the Southern states had left African
Americans alone at the moment in history when blacks were freed from
slavery and the Juneteenth celebrations began. Instead Democrats set
for themselves the horrendous task of keeping blacks in virtual slavery.
Southern Democrats passed discriminatory Black Codes in 1865 to
suppress, restrict, and deny blacks the same privileges as whites.
The Codes forced blacks to serve as apprentices to their former
slave masters.
In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was started by Democrats to lynch and
terrorize Republicans, black and white, and the Ku Klux Klan became
the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
To counter the discriminatory and terrorizing actions by Democrats,
Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the
Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new
government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was
fair to blacks.
Further, the Fourteenth Amendment pushed by Republicans was ratified
in1868 that granted blacks citizenship. The Fifteenth Amendment also
pushed by Republicans was ratified in 1870 that granted blacks the
right to vote.
Undaunted, Democrats passed discriminatory Jim Crow Laws in 1875 to
restrict the rights of blacks to use public facilities. In response,
Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which prohibited
racial discrimination in public facilities.
The timeline of events reminds me of Reagan's words: "The trouble with
our liberal friends isn't that they're ignorant; it's that they know so
much that isn't so." Read Ms. Rice's entire piece here
<http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2010/06/commemoration-of-juneteenth-celebration.html>. It
reveals who was sincere and instrumental in advancing a free and equal
society for all. Her final words are as overdue as the charge they carry:
As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party
of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40 years,
and the socialist policies of the Democrats have destroyed the
economic and social fabric of black communities. A wise man once
wrote that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different results.
It is way past time for blacks to end their unfounded loyalty to the
Democratic Party, stop having their vote taken for granted and seize
control over their own destiny.
Only then will blacks be truly free.
Wow, free from the Democrat Party Plantation...one can only imagine.
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