Will MAGAts insist on going to work that day?The Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would make Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of chattel slavery in the United States, a legal public holiday.
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The measure is expected to be approved by the Democratic-led House of Representatives as well, but the timing is unclear.
"Making Juneteenth a federal holiday is a major step forward to recognize the wrongs of the past," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement, "but we must continue to work to ensure equal justice and fulfill the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation and our Constitution."
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Academic calls to more critically examine the lens through which race has molded public life, including in economics and the justice system, have prompted backlash by some Republican lawmakers who say that viewpoint unfairly villainizes white people and overstates the extent to which racism is foundational to American society.
Republican legislation to limit teaching a historically accurate picture of U.S. history in public institutions has advanced in some half a dozen states.
NPR
I knew the Emancipation Proclamation was a military move, not a moral one, but I didn't know that not all slaves were freed by it.
Lincoln gets more glory than he deserves.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
We definitely SHOULD have one for Native Americans. And it should replace Columbus Day.
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