The federal government had nothing to do with Juneteenth. Black people have celebrated Juneteenth for a very long time before it became a federal holiday. The federal government only obliged.

@nolipoli430

Жыл бұрын

Exactly 😂 .

@patevans3709

Жыл бұрын

The enslaved residents of the USA were freed with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The majority of those enslaved people did not read or write, or interact with people outside of their farm, business, etc., so they did not know they were free. The slave-owners did not want them to know they were freed--they wanted to keep the free labor and hard-working, people uneducated to benefit the owners. Many enslaved people did not know for months--even years. The enslaved workers and their families in southeast Texas were a perfect example of the dishonesty of owners, as those in Confederate States did not adhere to President Lincoln's decree. It was not until 2,000 US Army soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, that 250,000 enslaved African Americans were told that they were free. There were enslaved people in western Texas and elsewhere that learned VERY slowly, too. Over 158 years later, there are still people hanging on to their Confederate ideology and begrudgingly refusing 41.9 million Americans (12.1% of the US population) to accept that being emancipated/freed was important, and about 41.9 million Americans (12.1% of our population) should be able to celebrate that day and it's history!

@nikkin.9206

Жыл бұрын

​@patevans3709 actually the 13th amendment freed ALL the slaves, the emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in union states.

@nizaaguero8783

Жыл бұрын

The federal government is just as dirty! as the government.

@elainedoornbos3566

Жыл бұрын

They obliged the KKK lynchings. The government obliged the killing of Emmett Till. The government obliged the killing of Trayvon Martin. The government OBLIGED A LOT OF SHIT DONE TO BLACK FOLK. THEY NEED TO OBLIGE REPARATIONS.

There was always "Black People" in America who were free.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

You are right.

@djbop

2 жыл бұрын

Of course, we were already here. We are the Aboriginal copper-colored Indians of America and this is our land. We didn't get off of a slave ship.

@kjlockley1246

2 жыл бұрын

@@djbop i wasn't referring to that, i was referring to Black settlers, who like John Punch had settled in America from Europe before the TAST began.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

@@djbop I think this is a good point that more people need to be aware of.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

@@kjlockley1246 I just googled John Punch. I will have to read more about him.

The background "music" us VERY distracting

@miriambaverborregard2897

Күн бұрын

Can’t even remember most of what he said because of the ‘music’ …

I’m from Chicago, but I used to visit my relatives in Dallas. They were celebrating that event in 70’s. My friends in Chicago did not even know about it at that time. It was never taught in school.

You missed an important piece of history that is rarely discussed. The newly freed slaves in the South couldn’t read or write and most of them lived on the plantation. Once the federal troops moved on out the plantation owners just tricked these people into signing work contracts under the same conditions they had as slave. They also created a penal system designed to capture black people for crimes as silly as loitering and they would have to work off the fines in the fields where they would easily find themselves collecting even more fines to extend their stay. So the practice of “free labor” continued well into the 20th century, with the government finally closing some of these loopholes at the start of WWII. Thanks for sharing, I learned a few things.

@jhinwsmite9117

Жыл бұрын

As far as literacy , we Tried to read, my GGfather was a professor at Morehouse and had his home burned down 3 x for teaching Literacy, and the insurance policy somehow failed on a technicality EACH time , so they moved to Oklahoma, where my Gfather was AIrbombed in Tulsa, they were Too successful :(. #ApolloGene ( my life story ,progressing w Netflix studios as we speak)

@Restlessgypzy

Жыл бұрын

NC, SC and GA, already had a huge population of indentured servants in Scottish, Irish, and such who were shipped over to empty over populated prisons after Scotland fell to England and so on. Many of these men and women were forced into long term or lifetime contracts already, as such were not considered slaves, and were not “freed” under such proclamations. Because they were considered prisoners of war, again end indentured servants, and then contracted as property to property owners, they were involved in similar struggles, just not one as popular in the history books, but still history all the same. It’s why we have Scottish/Highland games in the mountains here in NC. The huge population all descendants of those who finally found freedom, and settled in what became the BlueRidge mountains and surrounding mountains with family groups, and former clans. It was the closest area to where they had been enslaved, that reminded them of home.

@Donkor640

Жыл бұрын

@@Restlessgypzy there was a good number of indentured servants from Europe. I think there’s less focus on that group because they typically served terms of 4 to 7 years. I’m sure there were exceptions because greedy humans will exploit any system that they can get away with. The big distinction between the African slaves were the fact that Africans were considered property not people. This made it easier for the physical abuse, sexual abuse, and use of the offspring as an appreciation in value of their holdings. There were a small percentage who were able to purchase their freedom but the overwhelming majority would have their next few generations enslaved. Whereas the majority of indentured workers were able to move on start a family and live free.

@not4every124

Жыл бұрын

And you shedding light on the treatment and displacement there after...thank you. That 13th amendment still stands and enforced HEAVY!

@Donkor640

Жыл бұрын

@@not4every124 yes, the 13th amendment only ended the practice of owning a person as property. The practice of “involuntary servitude or peonage” was abolished but there was no law against having an illiterate person sign a contract with an X saying that they would work under the same conditions as a slave. It also left the door open for punishment for a crime, which gave birth to the “black codes” to keep enough laborers around to work for free.

I had never heard of Juneteenth until 2020. I was 50 years old.

@desosmom1

Жыл бұрын

If you aren't from this state you aren't gonna think much about it. Probably just your state

@erwinbrubacker7488

3 күн бұрын

Never heard till 2023. Now 65 yo.

@michaelarmstrong6483

3 күн бұрын

The democrats refused to tell them they were free 😂. That's the democrats way, to keep you ignorant 😂

14:20 Not only does slavery still exist in the United States in the form of human trafficking, but slavery still exist in many parts of the world, even to a greater extent than it did during the height of slavery in America. THIS IS REALLY THE UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT MODERN DAY SLAVERY.

@brianberson4169

5 күн бұрын

Slavery exist among everyone who isnt rich. We are all forced into labor with no way iut

@bodyrumuae2914

4 күн бұрын

Still exists here under the name of imprisonment. Most people don't even know what the Amendment says: AMENDMENT XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

@kylebourne6839

4 күн бұрын

@@bodyrumuae2914 FACT!! ☝🏽

@voiceofreason2743

2 күн бұрын

We’re all slaves now.

As an 82 year old, who believed this was a made up holiday, I learned a lot this morning. Thank you. Also, reading the comments also added much to my knowledge.

@kavaministries

Жыл бұрын

It's sad that you and many others think that way. I submit to you respectful age has nothing to do with it . Fear does it doesn't matter your age we are ever learning. Unless we are dead and even in death . Stop being filled with fear what have you to lose . BTW I'm native and African. That's a different conversation no one what's to have . Learn not fear

@relsba

Жыл бұрын

@@kavaministries I never mentioned fear. I never heard the term until about 3 years ago. I’m certainly not afraid of learning new things. Just the opposite. My schooling, and probably yours, never taught whole truthful history as it actually happened.

@sarayb6607

Жыл бұрын

It is absolutely an MADE UP holiday to keep so called black folks in utter ignorance of their true AMERICAN heritage as Indigenous People.

@cassievining340

Жыл бұрын

All holidays are made up. July 4th is made up. 🤷

@presbreezeable

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@kavaministries🤦‍♂️ he/she just said they learned a lot and also learned a lot from the comments! You have to stay a victim don’t you!? Even when a person acknowledges they learned it! Lol you are a sad lot!

My great great great grandfather was a Southerner. He was a poor Melungeon farmer. He made a stand to go fight on the Union side because he did not feel that one man could own another. And after the war he came back to Georgia to his farm despite the grudges and hostilities toward the North and it's supporter's. He stood his ground. There was a black couple former slaves who both died and left a very small toddler alone to fend for himself. Nobody cared about or wanted to help this child. And he went and got the little boy and brought him into his own small home and adopted him as his own son and raised him.

@4NickAder

Жыл бұрын

further proof of the barbarism of the southern conservatives thanks for sharing your story of the compassion of the rare liberal southerners

@michaelpreston233

Жыл бұрын

Humanistic of him

@2380Shaw

Жыл бұрын

I managed to find a Civil War journal of my 4th great grandfather Horace Harbaugh who fought with the New York infantry during Civil War. He described freed slaves in Louisiana running out to great them as liberators. He described them in his journal as "those poor souls". Also he mentioned going to a Sunday church service with an African preacher.and said it was a good sermon.

@TheCastedone

Жыл бұрын

Awesome family history. Hope we can keep the love up out here. It's always needed

@kevinfrench524

Жыл бұрын

That's Love Right There...

It is also important to know that Mississippi's ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was legally recorded on February 7, 2013.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

It was not right that they waited that long.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that they should have done it sooner.

@donaldcooper3156

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also important to explain that amendment so people don’t assume that slavery barely become illegal. Slavery was abolished already by 2013 but that was to end slavery being a punishment for a crime which I’m not sure what you’d call a prisoner if you don’t call that being a slave . You’re told when to eat, drink , sleep , wake up , stand up , how to dress and ect

@kevinjenkins2108

2 жыл бұрын

@@donaldcooper3156 the 13th Amendment has a purpose and that purposes is to generate a profit. I kind of look at this as…”you can do it the easy way, or the hard way!’ Whether free or imprisoned, citizens will be productive. The challenge is and will always be the uninformed and hardheaded will find themselves doing things the hard way. Not that obtaining knowledge and skills is easy…but I’d much rather do things on my terms compared to living like a cages animal forced to work.

@shangri-la-la-la

2 жыл бұрын

If you think that is crazy look into the controversy around the ratification of the 16th amendment.

Preach on brother ! History is almost always distorted for a certain narrative ! Thanks for bringing up the topic of human trafficking !

Amazing American history! Never learned this in school. Nor ever, even heard of it.

Growing up in the SE TX area, when we were kids we always thought Juneteenth was already a holiday back 40+ years ago. We didn't know until we grew up and got around the rest of the country that mostly no one outside of the SE TX/ SW LA region knew anything about Juneteenth, which has been celebrated with varying levels of interest since before I was born. I don't think the Fed Govt chose June 19th based on its importance (or relative lack) in dismantling slavery. I think Juneteenth was chosen because it was grass-roots holiday that (as far as I know) was just about the only existing celebration of the end of slavery, whether it was the actual end or not. The government didn't invent Juneteenth, the people did and it was already in full swing before the government got hold of it to leverage for political use. I think that's why we have June 19th, and not Dec 18th.

@Ezees23

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in NC and we've celebrated it for the decades that I've been alive (over 50yrs)

@russellstewart5414

Жыл бұрын

We’ll stated, many holidays are celebrated and the exact date of origin are lost or changed for convenience, the main thing is that it’s recognized, and when it went into effect the people I work with had fits . Trying to question why white people didn’t get their own holiday,maybe someday things will be better.

@chrisjohns4991

Жыл бұрын

Where is this no one outside of Texas knew about it thing coming from? I’m from San Francisco, and it’s been celebrated for longer than I’ve been alive here.

@vikingshark2634

Жыл бұрын

​@Alex Rodriguez I'm just gonna let this sit here awhile and see what happens.

@vikingshark2634

Жыл бұрын

@Alex Rodriguez Well my degree is Law Enforcement Analysis, I've headed the LE Intel unit at my local PD for five years, and eight years in Army intel before that, so I think I've got at least a a basic handle on a couple of crime stats. What I'm waiting to hear is (1) your laughably wrong explanation on how picking June 19th 'brings the crime rate up', (2) why the federal government would have an interest in bringing the crime rate up, and (3) and any kind of evidence that Juneteenth is responsible for any statistically significant increase in UCR/NIBRS-reported violet or property crime. The floor is yours, smart statistics guy.

A big YES to encouraging people to see the connection between slavery and human trafficking. Addressing the latter is something we can do now!

@williamanderson1091

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, it was human trafficking back then, and it is today. The difference is we glorify those who did it and became wealthy doing it back then. We erect their imaged, name cities, states ,and universities after them. Wow, they even went so far as to white wash and ban the teaching of the truth. That actually sounds like what's happening now.We make what is bad good. Don't worry when they stand before God almighty all to covers will pulled away and the atrocities( abominations ) will be exposed. To glorify sinful acts is the work of the devil.

@latrelly1

Жыл бұрын

This country has always human traffic . That is why it sounds so strange when the talk about now like it's new

@HistoricForrest

Жыл бұрын

All slavery needs to end.

@YouAREyoubeYou

Жыл бұрын

The transatlantic slave trade was a mass human trafficking operation, which the world will be judged for. Y’all can continue to try to sweep it under the proverbial rug; however, the MH will judge righteously.

@HistoricForrest

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you.

Black people want the celebration to be near the summer time like we decided it to be! Black history month was decided by the Congress to be celebrated in the freezing month of February which is also the shortest month of the year. 😉🤫💯

@grizzlygrizzle

5 күн бұрын

And Dec. 18 is only a week before Christmas. Celebrating the end of slavery on that date would cluster too many holidays between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Excellent details. Thank you for sharing! I had no idea.

I continue to be amazed at how much USA History I learn ( from this video) but was not taught in the numerous US History classes I have had... Amazing! 🗽📚 📜

@m0rch3113

Жыл бұрын

Why would they want to tell the truth about America's history

@angelamastin7524

Жыл бұрын

They don't want you to learn true history....

@estherfarris3802

Жыл бұрын

The powers that be ,doest want the truth to be know of their racism

@1delta_10tangos

Жыл бұрын

The Rockefeller public school indoctrination camp at its finest.

@stephaniehilliard6730

Жыл бұрын

💯% FACTZ

I have been celebrating juneteenth since 2004. I'm white and have black friends who I love like brothers. They laugh at me but I think about all who fought for juneteenth to happen and all who were lost before then.

@HappyMomma412

Жыл бұрын

I’m not laughing at you. I am applauding you and grateful (which I’m sure they are, too, and are jesting). 💜🙏🏾🌍

@hazzard5011

Жыл бұрын

Amen, keep on celebrating your fellow American’s freedom from enslavement.

@lindahackens4323

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you ❤🙏🏿💯

@palmdaleslim

Жыл бұрын

The comment about your “Brothers” is quite stupid and if I were one of your”brothers” I would be highly offended. You are a racist celebrating Juneteenth. How American of you.

@philmccracken904

Жыл бұрын

Right on bro. We should all celebrate this day. Only the racist out there don't consider it a holiday to celebrate.

I have been a student of the War between the States for over thirty years and this video was a true revelation. I experienced several real "Aha Moments" here. Thanks for producing this excellent little documentary.

Amazing learning about fact six just now. Awesome video!

When discussing this, so far he forgot to mention how many slave holders had moved to Texas to hold on to the slaves they owned.

This is amazing. Out all of the facts you presented, I only knew one, the Emancipation Proclamation. The rest I had never heard of. Thank you very much. Well done, sir. Well done.👏👍

Thanks for the information. It was very enlightening!!

Thanks for the information. I grew up in the North. When i moved south someone told me that the civil war was about states rights not about ending slavery. The north was more industrialized and slaves were not that important. I appreciate your concern for human trafficking.

@kendallsmith1458

6 күн бұрын

Yes, the right to own other humans...

@nghtwtchmn129

4 күн бұрын

Growing up in the North, did you learn about the New Englanders such as James DeWolf who imported the slaves?

Juneteenth is an OUCH and an AMEN moment about American history. The lingering sentiment about slavery hurts but the aspirations of freedom for all are worth celebrating.

@lyndonwhite104

Жыл бұрын

❤❤

@rb5959

Жыл бұрын

Well stated! Thank you for that.

@janbadinski7126

Жыл бұрын

Well said ❤

@cactusqltr

Жыл бұрын

F@ck an “aspiration”! Aspirations ain’t got us shyt!!

@chris2162003

Жыл бұрын

Crazy Africa still has slavery.

Another fact: Although the Emancipation Proclamation freed around 3.5 million slaves in the rebellious states, there were still about half a million slaves in Union states that *_remained enslaved_* until after the end of the war. Juneteenth left Northern slaves in bondage for months! And another: The freed slaves were promised "40 acres and a mule", but over 400,000 died of disease and starvation after their homes and only sources of income were destroyed in the war, and they were then abandoned by their "liberators" to fend for themselves.

@obatalaosun2222

2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU.

@obatalaosun2222

2 жыл бұрын

As well, the Union Army was losing the war until, at the urging of Frederick Douglass, the President allowed Black people (free men AND escaped slaves) to join.

@sproctor1958

2 жыл бұрын

@@obatalaosun2222 And, IIRC, joining the army also guaranteed Emancipation in both the North and the South. Oddly, records indicate that Southern blacks in the army were treated and paid better than their Northern equivalents.

@maaruz1979

2 жыл бұрын

"freed slaves" is an oxymoron

@codex5300

2 жыл бұрын

who promised them 40 acres and a mule? i never heard that before, 40 acres is more land that any one person and a mule can even handle...imo after all those that died for the slaves freedom, i don't think anything is or should be owed. And why would any one care about some promise?...sounds childish imo to think some promise to anyone is ever gonna be or ever to be trusted, just look at how many where broken just by yourself..then to think so person may have said that to get elected or was elected is funny,cause who can give land thats not theirs to even give.

Appreciate this man✔️💯never too old to learn something new.

Thank you for your excellent research and you sharing this information.

Growing up in western NY state (Syracuse/Buffalo) and graduating HS in the early 80's, this wasn't taught. Only a few years ago here in Texas did my wife and I hear about this date.

Growing up we celebrated JuneTeenth! My grandparents were from Mississippi and reared in Houston Texas. So it was very much part of my life growing up.

@cheesebeef4902

2 жыл бұрын

Anit that something Felicia.the holiday just got on the national stage last year.top ranking politicians didn’t know what June 19 was

@msthang5366

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheesebeef4902 they knew!! They write history

@Cahoula

2 жыл бұрын

Well it must have been a secret. This year is the first time I heard of Juneteenth. I read a lot of American history and a lot of U.S. civil war. Just as an aside, it should have had a more important / official sounding name. It sounds like a candy or a slurpee flavor at 7-11. Hey, I got a day off from work this year that I didn't know was coming.

@sewellfamily9138

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in California and I remember June teenth celebrations its funny how people think it's new 😂

@brendajoycewhite5747

Жыл бұрын

My father Mississippi, Mom Oklahoma and Arkansas. Yah, we knew.

Thank You ,well done.

Thank you for this post. You know more than us about the situation.

I am always weary when I see a video titled, “ something the government doesn’t want you to know!” It screams 2 am infomercial.

@oldcremona

6 күн бұрын

It screams lightly researched conspiracy agenda.

Thank you for sharing these Facts with everyone. We were Freed but not given a fare share…the fight continues. Factual History is very important for ALL US Americans to know. It’s American History💯👍🏾

@stephenmcguire7342

2 жыл бұрын

Let's see if it really matters to you. Were their more Negroids or Caucasians held in slavery during this period?

@mikecross4350

2 жыл бұрын

Given?

@robertchatman8449

2 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@Jokes_on_D

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikecross4350 yeah given, every time black people built something up it was taken, looted, burned, or gentrified. In most cases outright destroyed. So yeah, "given back" if that term makes you more comfortable.

@dowjones702

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikecross4350 As in God "Given" Rights! Ever heard of Jim MF Crow?!

Thank you for sharing

Thank you for providing this factual and historical video/audio of a very important holiday and the people and situations that made this possible. I will be looking for more of your well made and well commented audio again here. Peace

No one is FREE until everyone is FREE

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

That is why we need to stop human trafficking.

@stevenmartin4889

Жыл бұрын

@@HistoricForrestgood luck with that. Just like the governments war on drugs it’s going to be an utter failure. Supply and demand will always reign king in the illegal black markets.

@cjsport1254

13 күн бұрын

@@HistoricForrestand that has been going on since day one

@RM-jb2bv

8 күн бұрын

You’re a free range human on a tax plantation.

@latebloomer7191

8 күн бұрын

​@@cjsport1254well, we know better and can demand better

Professor Forrest, you proved in your video that there is absolutely no such thing as too much history. Even as an African American USAF veteran born in the piney woods of northeast Texas and a college graduate alumnus from that same northeast Texas area, your video touched on some key that I never knew before and yet it makes a lot more sense after the fact. As G.I. Joe would say, "now I know and knowing is half the battle" for this new sub to your channel.

@luranzaechols8303

Жыл бұрын

Back in the 60s when my family made the journey to Commanche Crossing to celebrate the Juneteenth, it was a black only holiday. Speaking as a member of a double gold star family, GI Joe, don't buy into what this guy is saying. Nobody on either side of the Mason-Dixon line truly loves you. Get over yourself

@focusinc4266

Жыл бұрын

so if this was in 5th,6th and 7th grade history classes. would it be considered critical race theory?

@luranzaechols8303

Жыл бұрын

@focus inc if I presented my version of Juneteenth as a grassroots holiday, yes it would be considered CRT. But if Professor Forrester presented his version, I doubt it would be.

@TheDude68305

Жыл бұрын

You're not an African American You're just a black American get over yourself!

@trob9100

Жыл бұрын

​@@focusinc4266crickets

Love You Man!!!

very interesting - thanks for sharing

I am “black” just to mention🙏🏿! I just want show my appreciation to this Gentleman for supporting his and my struggle!

Let this marinate “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it” -Abraham Lincoln

@jonjeskie5234

2 жыл бұрын

Also this: " I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race" - Abraham Lincoln 9/18/1858

@7SKYBALLER

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonjeskie5234 Touche'

@thirdeffect

2 жыл бұрын

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@MacroX1231

2 жыл бұрын

Any mature person has iterated various points as fact at a given point in time and then changed their opinions, affirmations and calculations once presented with new and updated facts. Lincoln was one who obviously and articulately did just that, changed his outdated thinking and decided on doing the right thing once he knew what it was. Slavery and equality for all was the ONLY path to ensuring the nation survived by not tearing itself apart. Kudos to Lincoln for being so wise as to know when to abandon a lost cause in favor of a winning one....

@jonhenson5450

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, emancipation was part of deal made to put through another bill wanted by Lincoln. This is how Rep. Taught modern Dem. Party to play blacks for social favors. TOTALLY DEBILITATED by government favoritism.

See I figured it was due to the Christmas Holiday season- the government wanted to give a day off separate from the winter season. Been saying the same thing about human trafficking - thank you for spreading the word.

Thanks for sharing

The funny thing is, regardless of which “date” we feel Juneteenth is, this history happened right here on “AMERICAN” soil, unlike Cinco De Mayo, a holiday about a war between Mexico & France “most” Americans Loooove to patronize & celebrate, which had nothing to do with US🤷🏽‍♂️ Juneteenth is AMERICAN history, and should hold the same value as July 4th! Thank you for this historic lesson!

@williamanderson1091

Жыл бұрын

Cinco De Mayo was actually a Black man. Maybe that's the reason the Mexicans don't celebrate it. Remember some of the states where Mexican territory. Slaves also fleed to Mexico for freedom. There is more to this than we really know.

@dawnpalacios8312

Жыл бұрын

​@@williamanderson1091 Cinco De Mayo translates as 5th of May, and is a day the Mexicans won a battle against France.

@dawnpalacios8312

Жыл бұрын

Many people of Mexican decent celebrities Cinco De Mayo more or less as a cultural holiday. It's not celebrated everywhere in United States.

@carkegaard21

Жыл бұрын

If Mexico had not beaten the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, the French would have been able to support/trade with the Southern States. So, without Cinco de Mayo there may not have been a Juneteenth.

@cmmochalatte

Жыл бұрын

@@carkegaard21 What a great connection.

He did not go into the type of treatment those "freed" slaves were given. Many of them suffered greatly. They were not allowed housing or given food. Many straived to death. They were still mistreated and used to serve white people. In the north and other areas, chattel slavery was still allowed. Once the Italians and others came over they would raid black townships to kill them to take their jobs and what little they owned. The federal nor the state's legal system did anything about it since they viewed the Italians and others as White people. This is why Classified white people were given -- free of charge, Land, homes, furniture, and more to establish themselves in America. This included taking Negros/Blacks from their land to give it to the white Immigrates. The federal and state governments were free to enact laws to keep black/negros in restricted areas and employment. Sundown Laws Jim Crow Laws Unemployment for more than 2 to 3 days was against the law RedLining still happening Job restrictions still happening Lending/Banking discrimination still happening Higher taxation, fees, and fines STILL HAPPENING Medically Undertreated STILL HAPPENING LOCKED OUT OF LAND PURCHASING still happening Restrictions on Education STILL HAPPENING THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE LAWS CREATED TO KEEP NEGROS/BLACK PEOPLE AT A SUB-LEVEL. WAR ON DRUGS federal committee stated it was created by Nixion to target and destroy black communities, yet All Presidentes after him enforced it with more funding and rewards to arrest negro/black men. Police falsely raided black-owned homes and businesses without cause. Taking valuables for their rewards to fund their pockets with rewards, wage increases, and more. Putting families in jail and placing their children in foster care where great harm was done to them. BIDEN'S CRIME BILLS also targeted Negro/Black communities to ensure no jailable offensed would put a black/negro man in jail for life. Biden Also Backed Private Prisons and ensured they would remain full of black/negros in America.

@JustBeStill522

2 жыл бұрын

👏🏿well done!

@therecyclingguy256

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the time taken here. 💯

@kimberlyherring7072

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you well put

@goddesst5290

2 жыл бұрын

So true! Thank you for stating these facts of modern day slavery!

@bgc5887

2 жыл бұрын

They will pay by almighty God's hands

Very well done and informative.👌

Thank you for showing this video I, will be showing it.and also sharing it to.The truth is more Disturbing than the Lie.🙏🙏🏾

I'm a Texan family owned land in Centerville.. Palestine..Wills Point and Burnetts from Burnet texas . Not all "blacks were slaves. Ishak or Atakapa indians were " Black. Indians were being freed in Galveston not African Americans. Thank you for this video

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

I will have to learn more about Native Americans in Texas.

@ladylioness9808

2 жыл бұрын

Very true I'm from Texas.

@jonjeskie5234

2 жыл бұрын

Where are you getting that Atakapa are black?

@allthingsflowers

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonjeskie5234 kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpZ_ltCgkdTbopc.html

@jonhenson5450

2 жыл бұрын

Related to the Burnett's In W.P.? Do you live in Wills Point now?

June 19th was chosen by the government because the black community was celebrating it. It wasn't to portray a North good vs South bad narrative. It was just an acknowledgment if a celebration that was already taking place. I do thank you for keeping it 💯 and telling the rest of the story. We need people like you to keep digging into the lost histories and cover_ups before they minister the "truth" to us.

@CHIEFROCKANDACROWNCHAKRA

2 жыл бұрын

Do your own damn research. Always depending on an outside source. Rather lazy

@magpietexas9475

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought as I listened to the end. Are there communities in Delaware, or KY that celebrate 12/18? Here in Texas Juneteenth has been celebrated for a really long time. I certainly don't think there's some kind of government cover up.

@bigk2198

2 жыл бұрын

Where was the so-called black community celebrating Juneteeth? I'm 55 years old and black. My family is from Georgia/South Carolina. Growing up I never heard anyone mention Juneteeth.

@williebateman3613

2 жыл бұрын

We’re the Israelite people to keep god’s laws sinners shalawam shalawam

@kumada84

2 жыл бұрын

I think the point he was making was that "they" could have used this as an opportunity to teach everybody that slavery in the United States didn't actually end on June 19th, but if they did that, they would be drawing direct attention to the fact that slavery was not just a "southern thing", which is how it's always presented. I have to agree with his assessment, tbh 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Interesting, very good photos.

Good information. Thanks.

I am pleasingly surprised that a white man boldly speaking on what we as children of slaves always knew, but found white people generally had no interest in. Thank you

@DfromBoston

Жыл бұрын

Were your parents slaves?

@williamtiebout4142

Жыл бұрын

Oh it's not that there is/ was no interest. Awareness is the key, being educated to the correct facts are important. There was and is racism now. You won't change some peoples minds. Vigilance and civilized action is necessary.

@willkittwk

Жыл бұрын

Dang you old if you were a child of a slave. Give me the recipe to stay alive so long. Slavery was over 160 years ago. That's a long time to still be trippin on it.

@maurice2014

Жыл бұрын

Who gives a damn

I first learned of Junetenth when I was 10 yrs old living in Anchorage, Alaska. So I believe it's celebrated more in the West. Having not heard anything about it while living in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigana or Florida, I am making that assumption.

@missam3404

Жыл бұрын

We were celebrating Juneteenth back in the 90's in Cincinnati. Possibly before then, that's just as far back as I remember. Ahh i looked it up, the first celebration was in 1987.

@a3sully

Жыл бұрын

I live in Wisconsin and never heard of it actually being a thing till about a week ago. There is a festival in Milwaukee celebrating juneteenth day, but from the commercials I have seen on tv years ago, it seemed like a festival for teenagers, which I would not have participated in. So I assumed based on that, it was some new teenager thing.

@zaywop7142

Жыл бұрын

There has always been a Juneteenth celebration in Kansas City Missouri

@victorparker308

Жыл бұрын

Grew up in California. Never heard of Juneteenth until as an adult & became friends with some people from Houston. Its known about more widely now but still no real celebrations.

@kimberlynhughes3658

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Buffalo, NY. Juneteenth has been celebrated for45 or 50 years each year with a parade and weekend long festival.

Young ppl must know this history so that it may not report itself.

Thanks for this! 🙌

I am a Galvestonian ,in my opinion they purposely didn't tell the Blacks that they were FREE. The building where the announcement was made is still standing. I Galveston has a LOT of HISTORY concerning BLACKS. Glad it's now a FEDERAL HOLIDAY

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

I think it is great that Galveston has celebrated Juneteenth for so many years.

@emilyimanideangel

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know about the history of Galvestons Native American tribes, Many of those tribes are now extinct.

Juneteenth has been celebrated in Buffalo, NY since I was 6 years old. That was in 1976. It started as a weekend celebration with a parade (usually that was the kickoff). It has been celebrated every year since then. When I was little, I thought everyone knew about Juneteenth. But I was under the impression that people in Buffalo knew about Juneteenth even before we began having the actual celebration.

@kimhughes530

Жыл бұрын

@@youtoldharpotobeatme5023That's not the point. You're missing the point. And you assume that Juneteenth is super important to me. By that I mean it isn't as to important as economic prosperity and knowing who I am in Christ. Yet, I'm black and therefore I like to celebrate the fact that black people finally got their freedom. But I certainly care about Juneteenth more than President's Day or Columbus Day or Halloween or St. Patrick's Day. Btw- I don't have any hate in my heart and I have my life to the Lord a long time ago. This isn't garbage. If you know the Bible God has given us authority over this planet, so what happens on this planet is important.

This is an Eye opening video. Thank You for providing this information.

Thank you for making this video and all those who make videos explaining history. For tell the stories the school system will not.

I grew up outside of Houston and it seems like there was always Juneteenth. Now that I don't live it's like its a new thing. There were cookouts, concerts and so on. It's an event for sure!

It's a fact, 227,000 Afrikans remained in enslaved in Kentucky and Delaware after June 19, 1865. They were two of the five states Lincoln exempted from his Proclamation to keep them loyal to the United States. However, when formerly enslaved Afrikans gathered on Galveston Island on June 19, 1866, to celebrate the first Juneteenth, all enslaved Afrikans had been emancipated in the United States. Of course, they could not see what was on the horizon--the Compromise of 1877 and American Apartheid. Regarding the Federal holiday, I can only assume that the US Congress and Biden were motivated by what Senator Lyndon Johnson told Senator Richard Russell in 1957: “These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." -- [Senator Lyndon Johnson to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "We've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference." As an empire politician, LBJ was way ahead of the game in terms of understanding the benefits of tokenism and symbolic gestures. Even the cognitively challenged Biden can understand that.

@cedricmurdock7120

2 жыл бұрын

100% fact that's why I am neither here nor there or better yet for or against the junetenth holiday because of its accuracy and its mis representation of the holiday..I see the good and the bad with it being a national holiday

@jonjeskie5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@cedricmurdock7120 there's nothing "bad" about it really. I personally am just not interested in celebrating someone fixing a problem they should not have created in the first place.

@misschoklate2012

2 жыл бұрын

Sad. Their mindset have not changed even today in 2022. Their efforts worked . One thing about Black people, we are resilient. We overcome many obstacles regardless . That’s why we should be proud .

@monsterlisa3167

2 жыл бұрын

They were not "Afrikans": that is not an American English spelling;they were not even "African Americans," a term or designation that didn't exist during that time period.Not being so lessens the credibility of what you're conveying.

@GaiusCaesarAugustusGermanicus.

2 жыл бұрын

Biden may be cognitively challenged but he still outsmarts that orange turd that was in office before him. “Man, woman, camera, tv” “we’re talking big water, ocean water”

Thanks for sharing. But I believe there's more to it and will do some research.

Thanks for sharing this info! 🙌🏾 ❤️

In the age of information its sad that we don't know as much as we should about our history.

I'm a blonde haired white man that actually looks forward to Juneteenth more than Independence Day. We may not know all the facts, but we know what we are celebrating. It's also the most fun I have all year.

@HistoricForrest

Жыл бұрын

Good to hear.

I'm a native Texan and we always celebrated Juneteenth since I was a kid (I'm 51). December 18th is too close to Christmas so the .gov cannot and will not add anything that can distract people from spending money on key holidays. Plus, the main person that pushed for it was from Texas. Holidays rarely coincide with truth or facts but often with financial gain and convenience. Go down the rabbit hole of looking into holidays and you may stop celebrating all of them. We continue to enjoy juneteenth as a reason to get together with family, have some BBQ and play some games. It's usually 100 degrees outside but it's better than trying to do that in the cold. Good video overall. Thanks for posting.

Great video thanks!

Great video explanation, but I will say that I do not agree with some of this. This is part of the problem, history is told based on what folks where told and not always the actual truth. We should have learned about American History equally. The fact that I didn't hear anything about Juneteenth until I was in college is utterly ridiculous. I will say that maybe include some black historians for this. The remaining slaves in Texas didn't know that they were free until the troops told them years later. Some of the comments on this post are distributing and let's me know that people have stereotyping issues when it comes to black people. Matter of fact someone said that we got reparations by being on welfare and food stamps, well I guess I am owed as well as my family cause we never had any of that. But what did happen to my family is that land that was owned by my family was literally taken due to a highway and our family never got a dime. So who owes that lost generational wealth. I am happy though that discussions are at least.

@theartofbellydance

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Let the Black community tell THEIR story and everybody can listen and learn because this is the US history. Let it be Juneteenth. Let's celebrate the end of this ugliness. And we still have work to do to be better humans. Honoring the reparations that were promised and never granted would be a start.

@jonjeskie5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@theartofbellydance yes but how is the black community going to feel when white people start getting those reparations as well??

@theartofbellydance

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonjeskie5234 Slavery in this country was based on race. Black people were subject to ABJECT slavery. Reparations were promised to them and they were not granted. Instead, they got Jim Crow. Just get over it and accept reality. White people have been the oppressors for our entire history. Black people are the ones who lived in slavery. Not white people. And 'white' is just a tool of oppression anyway. White doesn't refer to a race - it refers to social status. And if you are going to reply with ignorant BS - DON'T BOTHER. Thank you.

@jonjeskie5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@theartofbellydance did you even read what I wrote? White people will end up getting paid reparations if we just do reparations for every descendant of slavery. You understand that right?

@theartofbellydance

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonjeskie5234 Yes I did. What planet do you live on? Black people were promised reparations - NOT white people. 'White' is just a tool of oppression. White people were not enslaved. Texas was MEXICO. If there were mixed-race slaves - they were Indigenous - NOT WHITE. Indigenous people deserve reparations as well. Our government was involved in well-documented genocide.I now regret clicking on this video - realizing too late that it is actually another pathetic attempt at REWRITING HISTORY.

It is hard to know where to start. Why is it so hard to understand that African Americans wanted to be free? The purpose of the civil war was not to free slaves, but to put down the rebellion in the South. Actually, the South was bad because the economy was built on the backs of slaves. The 13th amendment did not end slavery in the Indian territories, and this ended in 1866. Interesting that there is a question concerning the South being bad, when they viewed people as property and could exploited for any purpose. The owning of another person was bad no matter where it took place.

@scottwatts5742

2 жыл бұрын

Ppl

@mamat1213

2 жыл бұрын

Freeing the enslaved Blacks was a strategic military decision NOT a moral one. There were plenty of reasons why it *should * have been abolished but you can tell from the outcome what the goal really was

@Harveysampuppets

2 жыл бұрын

@@mamat1213 I would agree. It was an attempt to break the South and it worked. I would agree that it was not a moral decision. However, slavery was brutal and evil, and the South paid a horrible price for trying to keep slavery alive.

@maaruz1979

2 жыл бұрын

the civil war was about slavery period

@atwilliams8

2 жыл бұрын

@@mamat1213 BLAH! The south left the union because of the successful abolitionist rhetoric of one Abraham Lincoln. It was his outright attacks on the expansion of slavery that got him elected and those same remarks helped fuel the rebellion he put down once in office.

I love serious tone of the C-minor loop here.

What truly matters is that "leagalized" slavery ended in America! Praise God!🙏❤️🕊️

It's a national Holiday because our leaders here in Texas pushed the issue for years, they never stopped, and I did celebrate it here in Houston at the Miller Outdoor Theater, it was a beatuiful celebration focusing on the slaves, and how far we've come and all that was done to get to this holiday, because growing up here in Texas I never thought it would be celebrated anywhere but Texas

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

I think it is great that Texas has been celebrating Juneteenth for so long.

@misschoklate2012

2 жыл бұрын

I’m Colorado we celebrated Juneteenth since the late 80s. It’s been celebrated.

@chantalb3986

2 жыл бұрын

@@misschoklate2012 That's interesting. It wasn't until I moved to Phoenix, AZ as a teen in the mid 90's that I heard of Juneteenth and went to a celebration. I figured maybe the black organizers were from TX and brought the Juneteenth celebration with them. I wonder if the same was true in Colorado?

@brycemanagement6462

2 жыл бұрын

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@celharris437

2 жыл бұрын

Been celebrating it all my life. And I'm not in texas. My parents had always celebrated it

Juneteenth has been celebrated in my state for over 100 years since we've become a State. It was included since the beginning.

@rodanderson8490

Жыл бұрын

What state is that?

Being a Texan, we have celebrated "Juneteenth" for as long as I can recall. It is something that is relevant to the State of Texas for the reasons you have mentioned and is appropriate to consider such to be a state holiday. It has little relevance on a federal level and you are quite correct about the slave states that were either neutral or fought for the Union. I checked it out myself and didn't know about Delaware but is a documented fact that Kentucky did not abolish slavery in their state until after the 13th amendment was ratified plus they DID NOT vote to ratify it! They did so later as a symbolic gesture in 1976.

@benjoseph260

11 ай бұрын

I grew up in Texas and learned about Juneteenth in Texas History class in the 7th grade. This was in the early 70's and the first I heard of it. I NEVER recall the date celebrated in any way in Texas before then, or afterward until I joined the military in the early 80's. I actually had to educate many African Americans not from Texas about the date with many not believing me.

@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046

11 ай бұрын

@@benjoseph260That’s right! I grew up in Beaumont, piloting boats all over the rivers, lakes, swamps, Intercoastal waterway, and the gulf. We were in Galveston & the surrounding area a lot, but I had only heard about Juneteenth at a young age because my sister was born on June 19th. It was 7th grade Texas History - still required of all Texas students - where I actually learned more details about it. Later, in American History, we learned even more. In college, at Lamar University (named after a famous Galvestonian), we donned our uniforms & did our marching band routine in the local Juneteenth Parade. Nonetheless, it was many years later, through personal study, that I sorted out Lincoln’s legal maneuver regarding the proclamation. Don’t ever let anyone convince you that we don’t properly teach history in Texas!

The music is too loud and distracting. The video is informative and good to know.✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

While it is always difficult to hear of people referred to as property, it is interesting to note the hypocrisy of including 'property' in the census which counts the population of people.

@icemancometh1621

Жыл бұрын

@@turtlrunr I'm well versed in the history, definition, and meaning of slavery. The first people enslaved in America were Native Americans, not Africans. You are correct. Slavery certainly does still exist. There are infrequent reports of individuals being rescued in the U.S., as well as millions of people around the world who are currently enslaved.

@bernardbarr2354

Жыл бұрын

@@turtlrunr I think what people fail to realize is that most descendants of the Trans Atlantic slave trade are concerned with how slavery in the US influenced us. Some of these practices still echo today.

@Featherless1

Жыл бұрын

What people fail to realize is that they're all modern-day slaves to the Elite Banking Cartel. Why keep handing the whip from the left hand to the right when you could just take the whip..?

@icemancometh1621

Жыл бұрын

@@Featherless1 I'm not so sure that equates with chattel slavery. It's more in line with indentured servitude.

@Featherless1

Жыл бұрын

@@icemancometh1621 you're living under the illusion of choice... 😂

Ride on Dude ! That’s some great education 🎉 We must end slavery and tyranny everywhere ! Love and truth ☀️

@HistoricForrest

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

Thank you what great commentary

Nice. Fantastic video and great presentation

Very Strong My Brother Keep Telling The Truth! May God Bless You And Your Family

I think any human being should be happy juneteenth is a holiday. Slaves deserve to be acknowledged and respected after what was done to them.

@queenmommie100

Жыл бұрын

God angels 👼🏽 have been keeping count of all of thee atrocities that his people have gone through we have been enslaved 70 times as a nation called IsRael and he sees this. This is why judgment is on the earth 🌎 now. Because there must be payment for this is said The Most High God.

@Bundle0fNeuroses

Жыл бұрын

Calling enslaved people "slaves" is not being respectful to them.

Great history. Well done. Thanks for the PSA about the horrors of human trafficking. Many of these victims are innocent children that cannot defend themselves.

Not gonna hold you ☝🏽 that hat combined with that title had me thinking this was gonna go left 😂 but you did a decent job today sir and I salute you 🙌🏾

@TommyCleveland-jn6ws

8 күн бұрын

It's. Very. Left .

@larryrobinson08

8 күн бұрын

Woke? Funny how facts tend to lean that way.

@charlesyoung7436

8 күн бұрын

Slavery in the former Confederacy legally ended on Juneteenth, as Texas became the last state to come under Union control. Once there were no states left in rebellion, the Emancipation Proclamation (Which was simply an executive order) was no longer in effect. Two of the border states that did not secede (Missouri and Maryland) had abolished slavery in 1864. That left Kentucky and Delaware as the last two slave states, so the 13th Amendment process (as portrayed in the film "Lincoln") led to ratification in December, 1865. But slavery in the US continued into 1866! This is because many of the tribes living in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) held slaves. There was a sovereignty issue to consider, but in relatively short order the 13th Amendment was found to be the law in all territories.

@daviddellemonache2757

8 күн бұрын

@@TommyCleveland-jn6ws Seems to me it’s just historical information. Doesn’t have to be political. If you find “facts” here that are incorrect, then please enlighten us all.

@daviddellemonache2757

8 күн бұрын

@@TommyCleveland-jn6ws Get rid of the first two periods and add one at the end. Don’t capitalize “very”. You’re copying a fad of a writing style that is worn out and only used by propagandists or illiterates.

I like this discussion where everyone is so important adding what's missing

The USA claims to be a Bible based land but I guess it’s only where it suits them, it is recorded that: Deuteronomy 23:15 ¶ “You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. 16 “He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him. AND Exodus 21:16 ¶ “He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

I had not seen some of those bible verses before.

@Ajon83

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistoricForrest American slavery is all throughout Exodus and a few other books. People don't talk about it.

@tesmith47

2 жыл бұрын

@Bernice Gadson non existent

There is also "De facto Slavery" which no one seems to want to talk about. I'm multi-racial African American and I would like to say that I really appreciate you coming forward with this new knowledge,or at least new to most of us and expanding our awareness of a vitally important history. I'm sure that there is considerably more pertinent history of slavery that has been swept under the rug.

@jewelbee6956

11 ай бұрын

Of course there is. The history of slaverys beginnings...in the ancient mid east by people of color Slavery didnt begin in America, and wasnt created by white people.

Great information.

Whether December 18 or June 19, 1865, enslaved people were finally freed and the celebration should be recognized for the day of Jubilee and mother Africa's long suffering children.

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

Like I said in the video. I think we should celebrate the end of slavery in the United States.

@Bfoots1952

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistoricForrest The United States is an ideal that has not come to be. We will be waiting a long time to celebrate the day of Jubilee if we were waiting on the United States. But as a young GF. Be still are working on it-- . The attempted coup of our nation because crooked politicians that fan the flame of hate is proof of that. But I think the nation that the forefathers planned, a Democratic Republic-- will hold and not crumble and all her people--One Day-- will be free. But we still got a long way to go. And in spite her flaws, I would rather live here than any other place in the world.

@TheFatman819

2 жыл бұрын

HISTORY show it was Mother Africa that traded slaves to the Europeans. Then want to dwny its involvement.

@bridgettjohnson7437

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistoricForrest what end to "slavery"? The physical chains may no longer exisist...the continual mental chain remain. The continual denial to this present date the People labled "African Americans" have not recieved promised "reperations". Every other nation of People who have come to this country wether by force (human trafficing) or other means have been recognised as deserving of assistance for their long suffering given accomodation (s) with finances, housing, good paying jobs, adequate education...basic neccessities human beings need to sustain, maintain life, liberty and pusuit of happiness except the former slave and or the ancestors of fomer slaves. Why? What is "juneteenth" suppose to satisfy for "African Americans"?

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFatman819 I have heard that, but I need to find more information on it before I can say one way or the other.

I appreciate the lesson for those that were not aware. It's quite refreshing to hear it from another perspective. As far as the day we celebrate, I am pleased we have JUNETEENTH as the Official Holiday. Although December 18th is historically the day, "WE AIN'T FREE UNTIL WE'RE ALL FREE". I stand with the ancestors and the people of Galveston. Thanks again.

@Alan-71351

Жыл бұрын

For all that, he's just another Southern Apologist, his trafficking talk notwithstanding!

The federal government never bothered to look at a calender when they assigned the holiday. In West Virginia, Juneteenth is on the 19th, while the next day is June the 20th, West Virginia Day, the day West Virginia was admitted to the union.Two holidays back to back, where nothing will get done.

Thank You sir!

One of my great grandgathers is Anderson Willis he owned thousands of acres of land in what is now known as Fairfield Texas and most of it was stolen. It was over a thousand acres which had oil in the ground that started an oil company. Please look him up and let me know what you think.

@isidfynch2398

Жыл бұрын

One can make the argument that virtually all land is stolen. There was always someone there before you. How far back do we go? Remember the winners write the history. Something to consider

@kathyw.barnett5283

Жыл бұрын

Some of those oil profits should Belong to the descendants of Anderson Willis.

@rodanderson8490

Жыл бұрын

This video is NOT about your ancestor getting cheated. How petty of you.

@strongsecurity7747

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to America

KARANKAWA Indians was in Galveston TX and extended from Galveston to Surgar Land to East TX. The people was cinnamon colored indigenous people. It was not African people they where Indian. Those are Other facts. Because they didn't use African American terms. African American came about in the 80s. Indians black people are Indians

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment. I plan to start doing some research on Karankawa.

@ldurham1479

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for stating the true and not facts!

@purelight8916

2 жыл бұрын

@@ldurham1479 whats the fact?

@nativempress

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s the link where this information came from: I watched it too the other day.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpZ_ltCgkdTbopc.html

@purelight8916

2 жыл бұрын

@@nativempress Tap into Rod Hayes

I'm a Black 41yo from Utah, and we've had Juneteenth celebrations as long as I can remember. My aunt comes back home each summer to celebrate with people she knew from high school. People are surprised by this. Only difference is I thought it was a weekend thing, lasting from Friday to Sunday. My family went to Juneteenth in Downtown Ogden. They also celebrated in Salt Lake City as well.

@williamanderson1091

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong with celebrating the freedom of the slaves in Galvanston, Texas. However, blacks were still enslaved in other parts of Texas as well the United States. We want to celebrate that when, in all reality, we don't understand the truth about slavery in America and the abolishing of it. If every state had different days that were used to abolish slavery why aren't those days used to celebrate. Delaware was the last state to free their slaves and Joe Biden lives in Delaware. You can't tell me he doesn't know. I just believe he didn't care. LGBTQ rights mean more to him than the rights of African Americans.

@katrinastubbs33-3

Жыл бұрын

@@williamanderson1091 TRUE I am from DE

@deborahtate192

Жыл бұрын

@@williamanderson1091 Kentucky didn't officially adopt the 13th Amendment until 1976. Oh, who's from Kentucky? Sentaor Mitch McConnell. I'm sure he knew about it too.

@williamanderson1091

Жыл бұрын

@deborahtate192 True, they didn't adopt the 13th amendment until 1976. I guess they wanted to do something special for the Bicentennial. That is exactly what racist do. They try to diminish the significance of any actions taken to correct wrongs when it comes to the civil rights of Black folk. Take voting rights, for instance. They claim there is no need for voting rights laws while they are constantly working on changing voting districts and lines to benefit them. Thanks for adding that bit. However, Blacks in Kentucky were not working under a slave system in 1976.

@microwavechef7738

Жыл бұрын

@williamanderson1091 Have you seen the movie Alice? I'm of the understanding that was based on actual events. That was in 1973. I've added watching that movie on Juneteenth.

Thank you for sharing such an informative video. I'm leaning towards December 18! ❤️🙏🏼

The confederate army fought the north to preserve slavery. Without the enslaved their economy would crash as it eventually did. The emancipation proclamation meant nothing to southern whites and in some cases northern whites. That’s why it was necessary to continue fighting until 1865 to make sure all of the enslaved were free. Also, you gave the name and showed a picture of the officer who led troops into Galveston but you didn’t mention that those troops were Black. Further, The Confederates were plotting to continue slavery in Texas and Mexico with the help of France. Those troops that went into Galveston crushed that rebellion. Some of what you’re saying is alternative history… just not true!

@HistoricForrest

2 жыл бұрын

You have made several statements that are not historically correct. The Confederate Army fought to defend their country from an invading Union Army. The Union Army fought to force the Confederate States back into the United States. If you look at the original source documents when the war broke out, that is what they say.

@teetime3421

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistoricForrest There you go again… not true.

@diggidy5367

2 жыл бұрын

​@@HistoricForrest not true. look at the articles of confederation. they leave no doubt what the fight was about, it was about the preservation of slavery Also look at some states like Texas's declaration to dissolve from the union, which goes a step further and declare white supremacy and the inferiority of Black people several times in it's document. These are official documents that are historical records and easily verifiable. That you purposely omit these facts shows at best historical ignorance or worst yet an agenda to cherry pick facts for a hidden agenda.

@diggidy5367

2 жыл бұрын

​@@teetime3421 it's just another form of the old state's right argument. Just amazing that people still push this nonsense when all you have to do is look at official historical documents, and read in their own words what they thought and their intentions. That the "it wasn't about slavery" narrative is still getting pushed to this day shows the willful ignorance that permeates in our society. History is just that, history. Study it, learn from it, and move on. No need to rewrite or whitewash a part of history that's unpleasant, to make someone or group more noble. It is what it is.

@tommyisrael6038

2 жыл бұрын

They got monetary compensation for losing slaves as well.

I’m so glad this video was recommended. Many don’t know these facts. Tyfs 🙏🏽 *SUBSCRIBED*

@cubanindian

2 жыл бұрын

What people are failing to understand was that the military didn't do it to save nor help the Negro in slavery, they did it to improve their military might. So, for this guy to say what days Blacks/Negros should be celebrating is not for him to say nor question. I wonder if he would actually do an honest post on what happened to those people that were allowed in?

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