On June 17, 2021 President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. The law made June 19th a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth's commemoration is on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865, announcement of Union Army General Gordon Granger proclaiming and enforcing freedom of enslaved people in Texas, which was the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery. The House version of the bill was sponsored by Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and was co-sponsored by 166 members, two of whom are Republicans. It passed 415 to 14, with all the no votes coming from Republicans. It passed the Senate via unanimous consent.
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@8YVHZD33yrs3Y
@8YWHYGD3yrs3Y
Yes, and we should provide reparations to Black Americans whose forefathers were slaves in America.
@926DQ863yrs3Y
Yes and No, add Emancipation Day and Provide reparations to Black Americans
@8ZYQ39C3yrs3Y
Yes, even though Juneteenth is already a federal holiday.
@8ZGR76X3yrs3Y
Celebrating black people and their accomplishments and supporting them through everything they've been through is obviously an amazing thing to do. But, many black individuals disagree with juneteenth becoming a holiday because of white people and big cope rations/company's capitalizing off the holiday and making money by acting like they care but in actuality, they don't. Also because of white people celebrating Juneteenth and making it their own.
@9334YP33yrs3Y
No, instead of celebrating this bogus black nationalist holiday, we should celebrate the abolition of slavery and the emancipation and suffrage of African Americans on the feast of Saint Peter Claver and/or the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant and/or Thaddeus Stevens.
@8YNB7B33yrs3Y
Yes, and make Emancipation Day a national holiday and move black history month to January
Deleted3yrs3Y
Yes, but we should also celebrate all cultures and ethnicities instead of just one only.
@7Q6YR423yrs3Y
Don't have a lot of knowledge of this topic
@8TP6QKS4yrs4Y
No, and we should make Robert E. Lee day and Stonewall Jackson day national holidays instead, and Black Americans should provide reparations for not paying their boat fares
Deleted3yrs3Y
Yes, but we should celebrate all cultures and ethnicities instead of just one only.
Deleted3yrs3Y
Yes, but we should also celebrate all cultures and ethnicities instead of just one only
Deleted3yrs3Y
Yes, but we should celebrate all cultures and ethnicities instead, not just one only.
@republicson4yrs4Y
No, we don't need federal holidays.
@6K36GJH4yrs4Y
Je pense qu'il l'est déjà.
@8P6PWZP4yrs4Y
Yes, and black people should receive reparations.
@39CTTZH4yrs4Y
Do away with all national holidays.
@6HQ4HQ54yrs4Y
If it is, fine. If not, fine. As long as we actually use the day to teach about our history.
@Graham4GA3yrs3Y
No, the only federal holiday should be Election Day.
@6JY5BRY4yrs4Y
Yes, only if we remove a religious holiday from federal observance.
@77JF5QJ3yrs3Y
No, and all of these un-American heritage months should be gotten rid of, as well as MLK day.
@7GQMXLT3yrs3Y
I don't personally have an opinion on this specific holiday, but I support the right of all Americans to petition their government for recognition of days important to their individual cultures, histories, and causes.
@8PWSCLT4yrs4Y
Yes, but it should not have been implemented the way it was.
@8S33VNF4yrs4Y
No, we already have Black History Month
@8SGXQ5C3yrs3Y
No but we should make 13 Amendment Day a thing
@8SGXQ5C4yrs4Y
No but we should make either 13 Amendment Day a thing
@8TKFNNS4yrs4Y
Yes Juneteenth should be a holiday and historic lesson for those that should always stay free for good and fight the good fight.
@8TH2QWQ4yrs4Y
Yes, but it should also be important to teach why it became a federal holiday.
@8TMFV7P3yrs3Y
Yes, but make Emancipation Day a national holiday as well
@8TVSNS64yrs4Y
It just became a holiday.
@8V5VRFP4yrs4Y
i'm unsure, it would seem very preformative.
@8VCYXF34yrs4Y
Yes, but it should have a better name.
@8VTBF8J3yrs3Y
No, Emancipation Day and Juneteenth are not the end of slavery. We should instead celebrate the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment that ended actual slavery in all US states and territories.
@8WQT4BB3yrs3Y
@8XRJPQ53yrs3Y
Yes, but don't cancel the Fourth of July
@8XRJPQ53yrs3Y
Yes, but don't abolish the Fourth of July
@8YJ6ZGY3yrs3Y
Yes, and make Emancipation Day a national holiday
@8ZLD3KV3yrs3Y
Yes, and it should be required that schools teach accurate history when it comes to Black Americans in history or what the government allowed to happen.
@92MKPWZ3yrs3Y
It dose not have to be a holiday people can commemorate, don't like holding on to the past, we can learn from the past but don't stay in the past.
@92YTHN63yrs3Y
White people should not get the day off because we are not the ones who this bill was made for but we are the reason why there were slaves
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