This is one of those holidays that I learned about first on the Internet: it commemorates the day that Texas was officially informed that slavery was done there, thanks. It recently got recognized as a holiday in Maryland; according to Wikipedia, most of the country recognizes it by now. Which makes sense. As I said last year, slavery is nasty. Nice to commemorate a blow struck against it.
Moe Lane
PS: As a look at the archives shows: I’ve never considered this a political topic.