Posted on Jun 18, 2021
These are the 14 House Republicans who voted against Juneteenth
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While the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in support of declaring 19 June, or “Juneteenth,” a national holiday, several members of the Republican party decided to oppose it.
The “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act” passed in the House with 415 votes in favour and 14 votes against — all from Republicans. The next day the Senate unanimously passed the measure and President Biden signed it into law on Thursday afternoon.
The bill recognises as a national public holiday 19 June 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that the Civil War had ended and that they were free from slavery. Over 250,000 people in the state of Texas finally got their freedom, two and a half years after president Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had freed all enslaved African Americans in rebel states. Texas recognised Juneteenth as a holiday in 1980, and was the first state to do so.
The “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act” passed in the House with 415 votes in favour and 14 votes against — all from Republicans. The next day the Senate unanimously passed the measure and President Biden signed it into law on Thursday afternoon.
The bill recognises as a national public holiday 19 June 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that the Civil War had ended and that they were free from slavery. Over 250,000 people in the state of Texas finally got their freedom, two and a half years after president Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had freed all enslaved African Americans in rebel states. Texas recognised Juneteenth as a holiday in 1980, and was the first state to do so.
These are the 14 House Republicans who voted against Juneteenth
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Texas recognized it first as a holiday because it was a uniquely Texas event. Major General Granger announced the freedom of the slaves in Texas on 6/19/1865, when he arrived in Galveston, and his announcement was directed to the "People of Texas".
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MSG Stan Hutchison
I must disagree with you Greg. It was a US proclamation and it was a US officer making the announcement. IMO, I have always thought it should be recognized nation-wide.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
MSG Stan Hutchison - Granger's GO #3 reads as follows:
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Capt Gregory Prickett - It reads as if to say: The President freed you, but don't go getting uppity.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
MSG Stan Hutchison - Granger was more concerned about having to feed and house them if they left their *former* owners property.
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Actually it was GOP Governor Bill Clements in 1979. When the GOP was still the party of Lincoln.
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