Happy Juneteenth!

Something of a tradition around here at the site, but I was going to put it out tomorrow. It turns out, though, that the Chrome appvon my phone pulls my data. …Which is really creepy, but never mind that. Happy end of slavery day!

6 thoughts on “Happy Juneteenth!”

  1. Sorry. My alter ego is the second-worst superhero, Pedantic Man. But…

    Juneteenth was *not* the end of slavery in the United States. That happened close to six months later, on December 6th, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment went into effect, ending slavery in Kentucky and Delaware (which weren’t affected by the Emancipation Proclamation because they didn’t rebel).

  2. Slavery is over? So companies like Apple and Nike do not utilize slave labor at all?

      1. Slavery is one of those “bad luck” things Heinlein warned us about…
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        “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
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        This is known as “bad luck.”
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        ― Robert Heinlein
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        So .. yeah, Apple, Nike, Nestle, Cargill, and quite a few others .. and notice how little media play that all gets, eh?
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        Happy Juneteenth – now go be one of the despised minority who keeps slavery from our shores!
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        Mew

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