Have a GraceFilled Juneteenth!

anyone going to emancipation park today?

 

Happy Juneteenth!

 

This is such a bizarre holiday outside of Texas. Why do 30+ states celebrate the day that Texas learned about emancipation?

 

Wasn't Texas the last state to hear about it?

 

I think we need a vacation day for this wonderful holiday.

 

I thought Texas was the last state to set slaves free or at least be "commanded" to do so. If that's the case, then I can understand why the last group set free is so important. As a people, you aren't really free until you're all free (even symbolically).

 

I never knew what Juneteenth was until I moved to Texas.

But it is also Father's Day, the 27th anniversary of the day Hakeem was drafted and my glorious birth.

In honor of the day I will share an excerpt from "Freedom's Plow" by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes.

 

Well happy birfday, moes!

That's pretty sweet that all of that awesome crap falls on your bday. All I get is Gay Pride Day.

 

Thanks for defining it. I had NO idea what it was.

 

Thanks - I've read all sorts of links about it, but none of them ever mentioned that part. It's always just "when Texas heard about it". That would make it make more sense.

 

Yep it was a great day