Tag: juneteenth

It’s not too hot to grill here, but the kids don’t like grilled food and my wife’s off on a camping trip. There’s still a steak with my name on it, though.

So… Happy Juneteenth! Go have a beer, and curse all slavers.

Always up for a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. Plus, it’s pretty much perfect grilling weather around here. Maybe a touch hot later in the day, but that can be handled with enough cold beer.

Enjoy!

I’d like to note for the record that this website was celebrating Juneteenth well before all the cool kids took the holiday up. It’s just so commercial, now. …No, wait, that’s a good thing*. Never mind!

Moe Lane

*Just like ending slavery in the United States was.

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!

Today, of course, was the day that emancipation was enforced in Texas, which more or less formalized the death of slavery in the United States. That’s an excellent reason for a party and a beer. Happy Juneteenth!

Today is the anniversary of what can be at least argued as the end of slavery in the USA: June 19th, 1865. On this day Union general Gordon Granger* formally announced that the Emancipation Proclamation had come to Texas.  Texan African-Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth every year; it’s been a state holiday since 1980, and a recognized one in 90% of the USA at this point.

As I’ve said before: it’s never a bad idea to throw a party celebrating the end of slavery.

Moe Lane

*I admit it: I had to look up the guy’s name.

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.

Because it’s never a bad idea to have a party celebrating the end of slavery.  That stuff is nasty.  …And I really, really wish that I could still refer to it as being effectively in the past tense. Unfortunately, it’s having a bit of a revival abroad.

Juneteenth, for my fellow Northeasterners, is the anniversary of the announcement in Galveston in 1865 that the war was over – and thus the slaves were now all free.  It effectively marks the end of slavery in the USA*.  The holiday is pretty big in the African-American community; of the states that celebrate it, Texas probably does so most thoroughly because, well, Texas.  People worked out that the holiday could easily accommodate a barbeque, which I’ve discovered is a pretty dang significant event/occupation/preoccupation in the South.  Although Southerners don’t really agree with me that Maryland counts as ‘the South.’

Anyway.  Happy Juneteenth.

Moe Lane

*Sorta.  The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had been passed but not yet ratified at that point.  But said ratification was going to be as inevitable as the tide anyway.