Juneteenth Becomes A Political Weapon

Those scratching their heads over Congress and Joe Biden giving themselves yet another paid holiday over the largely unknown Texas tradition known as Juneteenth deserve an explanation.

Juneteenth, is celebrated by black Americans as a day of independence commemorating the day when on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation proclamation, Union General Gordon Granger outfitted with 20,000 troops rode to Galveston, Texas, and read from Order No. 3. The nightmare of slavery that had been a highly contentious issue since the Revolutionary War and lead to 620,000 Americans dying during the Civil War... was over.

Joe Biden doesn’t care to mention that his state of Delaware continued slavery for 6 more months after the events on Juneteenth. It had taken nearly three years to free slaves in Delaware after the Emancipation Proclamation finally morphed into the 13th Amendment.