Juneteenth is a bloody awful word to describe something that’s great.
It’s the anniversary of the day in 1865, June 19, when the US Union Army general Gordon Granger, announced General Order No. 3 proclaiming and enforcing the freedom of enslaved people in Texas. Celebrations of the date began a year later in Galveston, Texas where the announcement was made.
Even though the Civil War had effectively ended with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, scattered fighting continued in some places, and being the farthest away, Texas was not officially taken over by Union troops until June where the order could be enforced.
By 2021 the holiday was recognised in the majority of the states, where it became known as “Jubilee Day” or “Emancipation Day”. I hope those terms stick rather than this abomination of a name, but since it has a Wiki page I guess we’re stuck with it, especially since it is now a Federal holiday.
You might think that the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln in 1862, which became law on January 1, 1863, was sufficient, but it actually only freed slaves in the Confederate states. There were two Union border states – Delaware and Kentucky – that technically still had slavery, as well as the Choctaw Indians. Full abolition had to await the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
The party that ultimately ensured the ratification of the 13th Amendment was the Republican Party. Only eight Democrat senators and 16 Democrat congressmen voted to pass the 13th Amendment.
The 15th Amendment, which gave black Americans the right to vote and be considered full citizens (as originally they had when the Constitution was ratified), was the special project of Republican President U.S. Grant. It was passed by Republicans with not a single Democrat’s vote in favor.
No Minister 
The Democrats have an appalling record on slavery yet they have a still weakening hold on black and coloured voters.
The senile old goat POTUS one of many with a history of anti black actions, his almost sickening devotion to senator Robert Byrd a Senator with very uncomfortable links to the KKK only one of several.
The slickest move the Democrats and their enablers in the MSM and academia ever pulled was the one in the 1960’s, literally in the same decade that Jim Crow was slowly coming to an end but when it was still virulent in the South, that somehow managed to shift all the blame onto the shoulders of the Republicans who had fought against it and lost against in the South.
And they kept at it even as Democrats continued to win at local, county and state levels for decades afterward – hence Biden working in a Senate environment of “civility” with assholes like Eastland, Talmadge and company. In many cases not just Democrats but the same people who had been there since the 1940’s/50’s.
Hell, the GOP didn’t truly take over the South until the 1990’s when the old Democrat guard started dying off.
Except the woke crowd are now trying to push Juneteenth on us as a equal holiday with July 4th, so fuck that.