[*nods head*]
Jun. 18th, 2021 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. About freaking time!
For those that don’t know, Juneteenth is the day that slaves in Galveston found out they were free-two years after the Emancipation Proclimation. Yes, two years .Some news moves slowly.
So Juneteenth has a special place in Galveston and celebrated every year but this year especially so.
With everything that has been going on with Black Lives Matter.. this is HUGE. It’s a small step but one that will go some way to help. Just imagining all of the Republican heads exploding because they had to vote for this lest they be seen as racist pieces of shit(but there are certain people like Marjorie Taylor Greene who can’t keep their mouths shut. See also: the Orange Asshole, AKA 45.)
For those that don’t know, Juneteenth is the day that slaves in Galveston found out they were free-two years after the Emancipation Proclimation. Yes, two years .Some news moves slowly.
So Juneteenth has a special place in Galveston and celebrated every year but this year especially so.
With everything that has been going on with Black Lives Matter.. this is HUGE. It’s a small step but one that will go some way to help. Just imagining all of the Republican heads exploding because they had to vote for this lest they be seen as racist pieces of shit(but there are certain people like Marjorie Taylor Greene who can’t keep their mouths shut. See also: the Orange Asshole, AKA 45.)
