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The Polack MSgt

(13,597 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 12:21 AM 8 hrs ago

Happy Juneteenth

2 years ago I was listening to a guy at work bitching about Juneteenth.

"It's a made up bullshit holiday!"

All holidays are made up i said. Juneteenth is fucking important.

Then I told him that it celebrated the day that the last group of slaves were Emancipated.

Dude still said it was bullshit.

The lesson is this - a whole bunch of white folk just don't believe the end of slavery deserves to be celebrated.

BTW, that shit dick was a GS-13 & they took the early retirement.

Typical GOP, hates welfare, but are nonstop sucking at that government titty for themselves.

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Happy Juneteenth (Original Post) The Polack MSgt 8 hrs ago OP
It's actually not the last group emancipated ITAL 8 hrs ago #1
Thanks for the clarifying info The Polack MSgt 8 hrs ago #2

ITAL

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1. It's actually not the last group emancipated
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 12:24 AM
8 hrs ago

It was the last group in the Confederacy, but two Union States (Kentucky & Delaware) had some folks in bondage all the way until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865.

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