Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?
Happy Juneteenth!







