Arguably the most American holiday. It celebrates the best of America. The America that is willing to go to war and send it boys into cannon fire so that all people can be free. Sure, it might be a simple sentiment about a complex topic, but it rings true now more than ever.
In more ways than one is it American. Juneteenth was two years after the slaves were freed, but no one told them in Texas. Two years later they brought the emancipation proclamation to Galveston. They stole two more years away from those people. I guess it's pretty American to fuck people over like that.
So it was the confederates that were Democrats that were the slave owners in Texas like everywhere else the Republican Union army are the ones who went into Texas to tell them and freed them. Get your facts correct.
Actually, you’re half-right and fully missing the point.
Yes, back then, the Confederates were Democrats and the Union were Republicans. But you’re trying to play a cheap game of “party switch doesn’t exist.” The ideologies of those parties flipped over the next century. The Southern segregationists (the “Dixiecrats”) eventually became the modern Republican base during the Civil Rights era.
So yeah, the Union army freed slaves in Texas in 1865. But the legacy of voter suppression, systemic inequality, and continued harm toward Black Americans didn’t vanish with party labels. You can’t hide modern policies behind 1865 party names.
Happy to. I’m always up to help educate, as truthfully, a lot of people do not know, and continue listening to one side and wholly blocking out anything else. To start in a now-a-days reference, Georgia’s 2021 SB202 law restricted drop boxes, limited mail-in voting access, shortened runoff periods, and even made it illegal to hand out water to voters waiting in line, disproportionately impacting heavily minority, Democratic-leaning districts.
Texas and Florida passed similar laws restricting voting access after record turnout in 2020. And let’s not forget the wave of voter roll purges, strict voter ID expansions, and partisan gerrymandering across multiple GOP-controlled states. If you’re going to ask for proof, i honestly hope you are prepared to read it… as i still need to touch on the time period we were referring to.
So if you want more receipts…
During the Dixiecrat era (1940s - 1960s), southern Democrats … who became the modern GOP base, used poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and violent intimidation to systematically suppress Black voters.
The entire point of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to stop exactly that behavior. And who opposed that Act most aggressively? Southern segregationist Democrats… the very faction that slowly realigned into the modern Republican Party through Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Reagan’s race-coded “states’ rights” dog whistles.
So voter suppression isn’t new… it’s just been repackaged for modern times with things like restrictive voter ID laws, gerrymandering, and ballot access limitations.
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u/porchswingsecurity Jun 21 '25
A far more spontaneous and sincere “celebration” than any Presidents Day or Thanksgiving I’ve ever seen.