‘Junteenth!’ What exactly is this "NEW" holiday? How did it start? And what does it mean? These are a few questions this tidbit seeks to answer. To begin, ‘Juneteenth’ is now publicly celebrated as everything from the ‘end of slavery in America’ to ‘the July 4th of Black people!’  Here are the facts!
  In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, which in Article 6 forbade slavery, allowing Ohio(1803), Indiana(1816), Illinois(1818), Michigan(1837), and Wisconsin(1848), to enter the Union as ‘free’ states. Because of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the N.W. Ordinance, slavery was being slowly abolished in America.
  After President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the ‘Democrat Party’ wanted lands that would be added to the ever-growing nation, which would be added as pro-slavery, so they began passing laws to that effect.
 In 1850, Democrats passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which made for the capture and return of any runaway slaves who had escaped to the North free states. This was a disaster for Blacks because Southern slave catchers would often grab free Blacks in the North and unlawfully force them back into slavery in the South. Many blacks fled to Canada as a result of this horrendous law. Many blacks fled to Canada as a result of this horrendous law.
  In 1854, Democrat Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois convinced Democrat President Franklin Pierce, to sign the Kansas-Nebraska Act, with the result of further strengthening slavery. Democrats flooded into the Kansas Territory, and a mini-war broke out between pro-slavery Democrats and anti-slavery advocates, creating what is historically called “Bleeding Kansas”!
  In the same year of 1854, the Republican party was born, created by its opposition to slavery and its expansion as promoted in the passage of Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Act. The first Republican Party Platform included 9 Planks, four of which were anti-slavery!!! I repeat, there was no Republican party before 1854!*
 On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 7-2 against freeing Dred Scott from slavery. Democrat Chief Justice Rodger Taney wrote the opinion: “They (Blacks) had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.” (FYI, all seven justices who ruled against Dred Scott were Democrats from the south).
  On April 12, 1861, the Civil War exploded! A discerning soul will notice the digression above, beginning with 1787’s Northwest Ordinance down to the Dred Scott case. Charles Kaufman said, “If you don’t see the divine Hand behind the scenes, history becomes an incomprehensible enigma.” Allow me to help you. After the Northwest Ordinance passed in 1787, because Democrats were re-imposing slavery back on the nation, in the Judgment of God—He permitted the Civil War!!!
 On August 12, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Fasting and Prayer: “"It is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses ... to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy -- to pray that we may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved ... I do earnestly recommend to all the people ... that the united prayer of the nation may ascend to the Throne of Grace."
 On January 1, 1863, after a turbulent year of war, and wavering on his promises throughout 1862, Lincoln finally issued “the Emancipation Proclamation,” which freed all Black slaves in the Confederate states. Lincoln declared:  “The time for the annunciation of the emancipation policy can no longer be delayed. Public sentiment will sustain it, many of my warmest friends and supporters demand it, and I have promised God that I will do it." "I made a solemn vow before God that if General Lee were driven back from Pennsylvania, I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves."
  The Emancipation Proclamation stated: "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief ...do, on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ... publicly proclaim ... that ... persons held as slaves ... are, and henceforward shall be, free ...And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence ... and ... labor faithfully for reasonable wages...And upon this act ... I invoke ... the gracious favor of Almighty God."
  Lincoln proclaimed a second National Day of Fasting to be observed on April 30, 1863:
"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us ... and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us ...Let ... the united cry of the nation will be heard on high and answered with blessing no less than the pardon of our national sins and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country."
 On April 8, 1864, the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was passed in the U.S. Senate. On January 31, 1865, the 13th Amendment passed the House. Although it was unnecessary, Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment on February 8, 1865. Please note the dates!
  The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. Please note the dates!!!
 On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger traveled to Galveston, Texas, and announced to the slaves in that area that they were free!!!
 On June 19, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the ‘Juneteenth National Independence Day Act’, commemorating June 19th as a national holiday. The words “National” and “Independence” imply this legislation was designed to grant a ‘national independence’?!?!? But if that is true, the question is: ‘a national independence’ for whom?
  To the contrary, if the 'Juneteenth National Independence Day Act' is true:
1.What did the Emancipation Proclamation do on January 1, 1863? Because of President Lincoln's authority, it freed slaves by fiat!
 
2.What did the Civil War do? For example, when the Union army attacked and took the city of New Orleans in 1862, the slaves of that area fled their plantations to hide behind the Union lines because they knew if the Union won the war---they would be free!! Did Juneteenth free the New Orleans slaves? Is New Orleans not "national"?
 
3.The 13th Amendment was specifically crafted by Republicans to abolish the enslavement of Blacks in America! The Senate passed the 13th Amendment on April 8, 1864---over a full year prior to June 19, 1865!! The House passed the 13th Amendment in February of 1865…a full four months prior to June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth)!! Was the 13th Amendment national? Was it about independence?
 
4.The end of the Civil War marked the actual and literal end of slavery in America, which is the reason Union General Gordon Granger traveled to Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 to announce to the slaves they had already been freed. If a mailman gives you a letter informing you that your uncle died and willed you a million dollars, the mailman’s only responsibility is to hand you the letter!!! He didn’t give you the money! The letter, like Granger’s announcement, was only a notification of a previous action. What was that ‘previous action’?
 
5. There are Blacks who argue that July 4th is for Whites and ‘Juneteenth’ for Blacks! The fact is, June 19, 1865, did not free even one slave!! I repeat, not one Black was freed on June 19, 1865!
 
6.This last one is a doozy! It is the icing on this cake! If Juneteenth is a Black holiday, then you must give credit to a White man—General Gordon Granger- for its creation!!!**
 
 In conclusion, July 4th is for all Americans--both Black, White, and every other ethnicity!! Why? Because it was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Who freed the Black slaves!!!
   If you want to help people, you tell them the truth. If you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear! -Thomas Sowell
 
*In other words, Democrats enslaved Blacks in America…not Republicans! Only God can explain ‘how’ the vast majority of Blacks today fill the Democrat party, even though Democrats enslaved Blacks in America!!
**Sounds a lot like Black Lives Matter, which was created by three Black lesbian women, who repeatedly testified that they were “Trained Marxists”! So…you have a Black organization—BLM, supposedly created to help Black people, whose leaders were trained by a White man named Eric Mann, in the doctrine of another White man, Karl Marx…in order to help Black people!?!?!?
  However, what’s even worse is that Karl Marx was a Satanist, who was racist against Black people!!! This kind of irrational thinking is the effect that racism has on the human mind and spirit!
 
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If you want to help people, you tell them the truth! If you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear?  -Thomas Sowell

 Over the last couple of tidbits in this series, I have used the following quote from professor Ibram Kendi to reveal the liberal position on what they call ‘social justice’: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination”.                    
              -Ibram Kendi, University Professor, Author, Professional activist
 
To refute Dr Kendi, I am using Dr Thomas Sowell’s great work, ‘Social Justice Fallacies.’ Let’s move forward.
  On page 23, Dr Sowell writes, “Within the United States, the median per capita income of such Asian ethnic groups as those of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Korean ancestry is more than twice as high as the median per capita income of Mexican Americans. These Asian groups also have higher median per capita incomes than the median per capita of White Americans. Asian Indians have nearly three times the median per capita incomes of Mexican Americans, and a median per capita income more than $15,000 a year higher than the median per capita of White Americans. Among full-time, year-round male workers, Asian Indian males earned over $39,000 a year more than white male full-time, year round workers.”
   Sowell continues, “Is this the 'white supremacy' we are so often warned about in some quarters? Even among low-income, non-white groups, there is considerable overlap with the incomes of White Americans. For example, 2020 census data show more than 9 million black Americans with higher incomes than the median incomes of White Americans. There are also thousands of Black millionaire families, and even several Black billionaires, including Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey.”*
  On page 24, Sowell writes, “Nevertheless, economic differences between different groups are a special concern when discussing different rates of poverty. For example, the poverty rate among Black American families as a whole has long been higher than the poverty rate among White American families as a whole. But, over a span of more than a quarter century since 1994, in no year has the annual poverty rate of Black ‘married-couple’ families been as high as 10 percent. And in no year in more than half a century since 1959 has the national poverty rate of Americans as a whole been as low as 10 percent.”
  “If Black family poverty is caused by 'systemic racism,' do racists make an exception for Blacks who are married? Do racists either know or care whether Blacks are married?”
  “By contrast, single-parent families have much higher poverty rates than married-couple families, whether they are Black or White. White, female-headed, single-parent families have had a poverty rate more than double the poverty rate of Black-married couple families in every year from 1994 to 2020, the latest year for which data are currently available. If “White supremacists” were so powerful, how could this happen?”
  “Male headed, single-parent families are rarer than female-headed, single-parent families, among both Blacks and Whites. White, male-headed, single-parent families have had a lower rate of poverty than White, female-headed, single-parent families. Nevertheless, White, male-headed, single-parent families have also had a higher poverty rate than Black married-couple families, in every year from 2003 to 2020.
  Statistical differences between races are not automatically due to race---either in the sense of being caused by genetics or being a result of racial discrimination. Differences in the proportion of single-parent families among various racial groups are other differences that affect differences in income. So, are differences in median age, and in education, among other factors.”
“Just as income disparities are by no means unique among American racial or ethnic groups, neither are disparities within such groups necessarily any less than disparities between these groups.”
    One page 25, Sowell argues, “In New York City, for example, in school year 2017-2018 there were ‘dozens’ of places in low-income minority neighborhoods where public charter schools and traditional public schools, serving the same local community, were housed in the same buildings. When Black and Hispanic students in both kinds of schools took the same statewide test in mathematics, the charter school students achieved the official “proficient” level in mathematics more than 6 times as often as the children of the same ethnicities in traditional public schools housed in the very same buildings. These are huge disparities within the same groups, so that neither race nor racism can account for these huge differences. Nor can culturally biased tests.”
 In conclusion, Dr Sowell repeatedly uses facts to refute the liberal ideology of “Disparities in income equals White racism” argument! However, what I find most amazing is that liberals such as Ibram Kendi, along with Kimberly Crenshaw, Derek Bell, Robin DiAngelo, Nicole Hannah Jones, Tim Wise, Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Lamont Hill, etc., can still have such great influence making an argument that possesses such overwhelming, irrefutable, contradictory evidence!
  However, I do understand the two reasons for their influence: 1. money and 2. political power! Liberals are awarded considerable positions of societal power and are paid large sums of money--to advance racism and division in America! Tragically, we now live in the day of 2 Thessalonians 2:9: “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie!”
 
 
*If you want to see the many footnotes in the book to determine the source of Dr Sowell’s facts, you will have to purchase the book. I purposefully left them out.
 
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You can define ‘finite’, only within the definition of the ‘infinite’!
You can define ‘limited’, only within the definition of ‘unlimited’!
You can define ‘man’, only within the definition of ‘God’!
You can define ‘enough’, only within the definition of ‘more than enough’, i.e.abundance!            

  Liberalism’s greatest argument for the existence of Systemic racism, White racism, and White supremacy is captured in Ibram Kendi’s statement: "When you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities are the result of racial discrimination”.                     
          -Ibram Kendi, University Professor, Author, Professional activist
 
  This sentiment is one of the foundational pillars for their idea of ‘Wokeism’. Tragically, through the ‘Cancel Culture’, liberals have succeeded in trapping this nation into the wholesale acceptance of the spirit of Kendi’s statement, spreading deep-seated division in our culture, literally imposing victimology on a generation of young people from college campuses down to kindergarten.
  Allow me to continue using Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Social Justice Fallacies’ to dismantle the liberal myth that income disparities among races prove White supremacy!
  On pages 19,20, Sowell offers what he calls ‘Episodic Factors’ to reveal other causes of differentiation among people groups. He writes, “In addition to ongoing differences among peoples, there have also been unpredictable episodic events---such as wars, famines, and epidemics—that can disrupt the development path of particular peoples. The outcomes of military conflicts can be a matter of chances that are incalculable---and yet able to determine the fate of whole societies or nations for subsequent generations or centuries.”
  Sowell continues, “As things turned out, Europe has been far from being a culturally, economically, or otherwise homogeneous civilization, with its peoples having the same quantity and kind of human capital across the continent. Instead, the languages of Western Europe acquired written versions centuries before the languages of Eastern Europe. This had major implications for the education of the people in these two regions, who had little chance to be equal in endeavors requiring the kinds of knowledge and skills taught from books in schools and colleges.”
  “Eastern Europe has been poorer and less industrially developed than Western Europe for centuries, and the homicide rate in Eastern Europe has been some multiple of the homicide rate in Western Europe for centuries.”
  “Nor was the east-west divide the only cause of national inequalities within Europe. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when only 3 percent of the population of Great Britain was illiterate, the figure for Italy was 48 percent, for Spain 56 percent, for Portugal 78 percent. There were similar disparities in 1900 within the Habsburg Empire, where the rate of illiteracy ranged from 3 percent in Bohemia to 73 percent in Dalmatia. Massive scholarly studies found great differences in both technological and in the number of leading figures in the arts and sciences in different parts of Europe.”
  “It was much the same story in Africa, where in 1957 only 11 percent of the children attending secondary school in Nigeria were from the northern part of the country, where a majority of the population lived. Someone born in northern Nigeria had nowhere near the same chances as someone born in southern Nigeria—a fact reflected in the different economic success of tribes from these different regions of the country.”
  “Both in Europe and in Nigeria, different circumstances led different groups to different levels of literacy and different school attendance. In Europe---in centuries past, when people were far poorer, some groups working agriculture had little need for literacy, but often had great need for the work of the children, in order to keep families adequately fed. In such circumstances, children’s education was often sacrificed, depriving them of even second-hand knowledge of a wider world.”
 
  In conclusion, I leave you with a final confirmation from Thomas Sowell: “Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills --- and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.”
  To call income disparity between Blacks and Whites in America ‘systemic racism’ is once again proven false!!
 
 
*If you want to see the many footnotes in the book to determine the source of Dr Sowell’s facts, you will have to purchase the book. I purposefully left them out.
 

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The law of sowing and reaping, present in much of God’s creation, was created according to God’s nature, and was given to mankind to demonstrate how His nature works (Rom1:20)...ABUNDANT!
                -Derrick Jackson