Juneteenth!

Juneteenth.

Today is the national holiday of Juneteenth. 

It is the five year anniversary of then President Joe Biden signing this legislation into law to honor the freedom of the last African slaves who were freed in Texas after a two year declaration of enslavement to be over.

This is the national holiday that President Donald J. Trump will not acknowledge or declare as a celebration of American freedom. 

Yesterday, former Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush celebrated the celebration of the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Vice President JD Vance directly took aim at Israel as they are continuing their attacks on  Lebanon. The vice president warned Israel that they are to cease their aggression according to the Memorandum of Understanding. Iran and the United States have formally signed this and tensions are expected to ease.

“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left ‌in the entire world,“ Vance said.

He added: “The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.”

Vance said that Israel shouldn't level entire communities to stop one person. That is the closest we gotten from the Trump Administration on how Israel is unapologetically killing everyone on the grounds that it was a "Hamas or Hezbollah" whatever.

No one is believing their shit anyone. Well Republicans and some Democrats are still taking the side of Israel over the concerns.

It appears that the U.S. has called off the peace summit in Switzerland. The Republicans and Israel putting pressure on the Trump Administration to not give in. 

Juneteenth (June 19) is the one of the oldest known commemorations related to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth National Independence Day was signed into law as a national holiday on June 17, 2021. The word “Juneteenth” is a Black English contraction, or portmanteau, of the month “June” and the date “Nineteenth.” Juneteenth celebrates the date of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people of African descent located in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom from the slavery system in the United States.

Freedom was granted through the Emancipation Proclamation signed on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln. Texas was the farthest of the Confederate states, and slaveholders there made no attempt to free the enslaved African Americans they held in bondage. This meant that President Lincoln’s proclamation was unenforceable without military intervention, which eventually came nearly 2.5 years later.

From 1865 forward, the day has held special meaning for people of African descent in the United States. Juneteenth continues to be celebrated in cities with Black populations through a series of parades, family reunions, speeches, and consuming of specific foods with a red color including barbeque, watermelon (an African fruit), and “red soda water” (primarily strawberry soda). The use of the color red in ceremonies is a practice that enslaved West Africans brought to the United States. Contemporary food items that maintain this cultural connection include kola nut tea and hibiscus tea, also known as bissap in the Caribbean or Jamaica (ha-MY-kah) in Latin America; large numbers of kidnapped and enslaved West Africans were sent to both areas.. Strawberry soda is the contemporary replacement of these teas in U.S. Juneteenth celebrations. Juneteenth is an important date on the timeline of slavery history in the United States.

Most federal government centers will be closed. Of course, the president, vice president and several federal agencies (FBI and U.S. Armed Forces) will be active.