Juneteenth - 6 Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Understand
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- Juneteenth is an important Holiday, but there are six facts that the government does not want you to understand. These facts will surprise many people who do not understand the history of how legal slavery ended in the United States. This video includes drawings and photographs from the Civil War and 1865.
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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.
Exactly 😂
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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!
@patevans3709 actually the 13th amendment freed ALL the slaves, the emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in union states.
The federal government is just as dirty! as the government.
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.
I had never heard of Juneteenth until 2020. I was 50 years old.
If you aren't from this state you aren't gonna think much about it. Probably just your state
Never heard till 2023. Now 65 yo.
The democrats refused to tell them they were free 😂. That's the democrats way, to keep you ignorant 😂
Because it's bullshit. Recently made up
You never heard of it because no one heard of it.
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.
Bullshit
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.
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)
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.
@@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.
And you shedding light on the treatment and displacement there after...thank you.
That 13th amendment still stands and enforced HEAVY!
@@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.
There was always "Black People" in America who were free.
You are right.
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.
@@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.
@@djbop I think this is a good point that more people need to be aware of.
@@kjlockley1246 I just googled John Punch. I will have to read more about him.
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.👏👍
The sad part is LBJ brought slavery back and is thriving today
Where do you get that from?
@@Instramark pretty simple if you know your history. The civil rights act was drafted by southern democrats with the intention of getting the black vote. After signing into law LBJ commented that " this will have those N word's voting democrat for the next 200 years". Which so far he was correct. Look at all the inner cities ( the projects or hood) mostly all run by democrats and have been for years. Malcolm X was correct when he said " the black man is the white liberals dog". Until people start to realize this fact nothing will change.
How so! Jeremy?
@@abnernelms2241 well I answered this already to the previous commenter but someone took it down. I'm guessing the page owner. But this goes back to the civil rights act of 1960. Not saying it was a bad thing mind you. But it had nefarious intentions on creating it. Written by most southern democrats it was a means of gaining black voters. LBJ who is widely known has one of our nation's most racist president's. Upon signing into law made the quote " this will have those n - word's voting democrat for the next 200 years. And has we can see for the most part he was correct so far. Since then they have put in a string of policies that have destroyed the black community. This is done on purpose. They never gave up on slavery just changed the face of it. Malcolm X said it right when he said the black man is nothing more than the white liberals dog. I will not state the exact words but you get the idea. Until people come to realize these thing's it will only get worse.
@@Instramark this goes back to the civil rights act of 1960. Not saying it was a bad thing mind you. But it had nefarious intentions on creating it. Written by most southern democrats it was a means of gaining black voters. LBJ who is widely known has one of our nation's most racist president's. Upon signing into law made the quote " this will have those n - word's voting democrat for the next 200 years. And has we can see for the most part he was correct so far. Since then they have put in a string of policies that have destroyed the black community. This is done on purpose. They never gave up on slavery just changed the face of it. Malcolm X said it right when he said the black man is nothing more than the white liberals dog. I will not state the exact words but you get the idea. Until people come to realize these thing's it will only get worse.
It is also important to know that Mississippi's ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was legally recorded on February 7, 2013.
It was not right that they waited that long.
I agree that they should have done it sooner.
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
@@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.
If you think that is crazy look into the controversy around the ratification of the 16th amendment.
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!
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.
@@williamanderson1091 Cinco De Mayo translates as 5th of May, and is a day the Mexicans won a battle against France.
Many people of Mexican decent celebrities Cinco De Mayo more or less as a cultural holiday. It's not celebrated everywhere in United States.
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.
@@carkegaard21 What a great connection.
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.
I grew up in NC and we've celebrated it for the decades that I've been alive (over 50yrs)
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.
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.
@Alex Rodriguez I'm just gonna let this sit here awhile and see what happens.
@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.
Preach on brother ! History is almost always distorted for a certain narrative ! Thanks for bringing up the topic of human trafficking !
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! 🗽📚 📜
Why would they want to tell the truth about America's history
They don't want you to learn true history....
The powers that be ,doest want the truth to be know of their racism
The Rockefeller public school indoctrination camp at its finest.
💯% FACTZ
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.
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
so if this was in 5th,6th and 7th grade history classes. would it be considered critical race theory?
@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.
You're not an African American You're just a black American get over yourself!
@@focusinc4266crickets
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.
further proof of the barbarism of the southern conservatives
thanks for sharing your story of the compassion of the rare liberal southerners
Humanistic of him
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.
Awesome family history. Hope we can keep the love up out here. It's always needed
That's Love Right There...
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.
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
@@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.
It is absolutely an MADE UP holiday to keep so called black folks in utter ignorance of their true AMERICAN heritage as Indigenous People.
All holidays are made up. July 4th is made up. 🤷
@@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!
Thanks for putting out the facts but I have a question of interest. Since the confederates loss the war, why is it that the confederate flag was allowed to stay in circulation especially in light of it being used to strike fear in blacks?
The men that fought under that flag had a personal attachment to it, so did their family. Just like a lot of people did not throw away there Redskins Jerseys when Washington's football team changed their name. Fortunately hate groups did not adopt Redskin jerseys like they did the Confederate flag.
The Confederate, refused to abide by the law set forth!!! What's your definition of free????
@@HistoricForrest you are wrong there also they did not have a personal attachment to it or they would have used the actual confederate flag and not the Virginia Battle flag only Mississippi had the Virginia Battle Flag in its state flag prior to the brown vs board of education ruling it was adopted by those state as a racist statement not because they wanted to honor their families or they would use the flag they fought under in which they all where different and the redskins didn’t go around killing native Americans and saying they were subpar humans soooo there’s that their name was just insensitive but not hatefilled like the confederate flag
@@HistoricForrest I could think of many countries in the middle east that feel the same kind of fear associated with the American flag!
Amazing how a dead object can hold such intense influence huh?
Folks still thinking that the civil war was over freedom from slavery, and abolished such really don't have much knowledge of basic historical evidence.
That is about as true as Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Human trafficking isn't the only form of slavery in the United States,...the biggest challenge in freeing the slaves before 1865 was convincing those born into the system that they were actually slaves.
The same problem exists to this very day.
@@quintontate4225 You have no idea what you’re talking about but don’t let that stop you.
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
Thank you for the comment. I plan to start doing some research on Karankawa.
Thank you for stating the true and not facts!
@@ldurham1479 whats the fact?
Here’s the link where this information came from:
I watched it too the other day..
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@@nativempress Tap into Rod Hayes
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
I will have to learn more about Native Americans in Texas.
Very true I'm from Texas.
Where are you getting that Atakapa are black?
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Related to the Burnett's In W.P.? Do you live in Wills Point now?
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. 😉🤫💯
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.
How many celebrations and holidays do you want?
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.
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.
@@theartofbellydance yes but how is the black community going to feel when white people start getting those reparations as well??
@@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.
@@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?
@@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.
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💯👍🏾
Let's see if it really matters to you. Were their more Negroids or Caucasians held in slavery during this period?
Given?
Well said.
@@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.
@@mikecross4350 As in God "Given" Rights! Ever heard of Jim MF Crow?!
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.
❤❤
Well stated! Thank you for that.
Well said ❤
F@ck an “aspiration”! Aspirations ain’t got us shyt!!
Crazy Africa still has slavery.
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.
Slavery exist among everyone who isnt rich. We are all forced into labor with no way iut
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.
@@bodyrumuae2914 FACT!! ☝🏽
We’re all slaves now.
Man, that's a pathetic reach. So far out of context it isn't even funny. Like all other Marxist "useful idiots" it's just not even right.
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.
I’m not laughing at you. I am applauding you and grateful (which I’m sure they are, too, and are jesting). 💜🙏🏾🌍
Amen, keep on celebrating your fellow American’s freedom from enslavement.
I appreciate you ❤🙏🏿💯
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.
Right on bro. We should all celebrate this day. Only the racist out there don't consider it a holiday to celebrate.
A big YES to encouraging people to see the connection between slavery and human trafficking. Addressing the latter is something we can do now!
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.
This country has always human traffic . That is why it sounds so strange when the talk about now like it's new
All slavery needs to end.
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.
I agree with you.
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.
I had not seen some of those bible verses before.
@@HistoricForrest American slavery is all throughout Exodus and a few other books. People don't talk about it.
@Bernice Gadson non existent
SORRY, IT JUST USN'T A THING.
No one is FREE until everyone is FREE
That is why we need to stop human trafficking.
@@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.
You’re a free range human on a tax plantation.
@cjsport1254well, we know better and can demand better
Whoever the son of God shall set free shall be free indeed-- John 8:36. Christians are set free from sin. Sinners are not free yet. But Christians are.
Let this marinate
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it”
-Abraham Lincoln
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
@@jonjeskie5234 Touche'
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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....
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.
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.
What was the Body Count last June? Black on Black Mayhem is a better name for it
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.
Ppl
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
@@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.
the civil war was about slavery period
@@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.
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.
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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.
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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.
"freed slaves" is an oxymoron
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.
Hey buddy, you just earned a sub! Thanks for reporting honestly on our history. Seems like everyone has an agenda or something to hide these days
They do have an agenda. Especially the Republicans who are trying to erase/white-wash black history in K-12 by falsely labeling it CRT, which doesn't exist in K-12.
Honestly? Honestly, you’ll believe anything a white man tells you. The fact is that Juneteenth is celebrated in Texas (or by those who migrated from Texas). I had never even heard of it until I moved to California from the East Coast. No one ever said that it applied to everyone, so this guy doesn’t need to prove anything because it’s all irrelevant. He doesn’t get to tell us what or when to celebrate. If the Texans, along with those who find their celebration important, want to celebrate, so be it.
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@@KamalasNotLikeUs We’ve had Juneteenth festivals in Buffalo and Syracuse since 1976 and 1988, respectively. Other NY cities Upstate have also had festivals for 20-30 years or so.
Juneteenth is a stupid word, like beerthirty. What day was it exactly ? June tenth ?
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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..?
@@Featherless1 I'm not so sure that equates with chattel slavery. It's more in line with indentured servitude.
@@icemancometh1621 you're living under the illusion of choice... 😂
Which you call African American was indigenous copper colored people to this land which in the 80s was titled African Americans I have the evidence would you like 4 me to share
Sure, that would be great.
@@HistoricForrest look up karankawa Indian they were the tribe that lived in Galveston before European or the French arrived and they was and is negro descent the older books 📚 tell you much better
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@@daydaynix7809 Thanks for the information. I will look it up in the next few days.
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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.
Do your own damn research. Always depending on an outside source. Rather lazy
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.
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.
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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 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Good information. Two wrongs don't make a right, though. And the wrongs committed by the South and the Confederacy have nothing to do with the Union and the North. There are monuments to the Confederacy in states that fought for the Union. Life for enslaved people was not good anywhere but the South WAS bad. The fact is that the Confederacy rebelled against it's own country. The South did not abolish slavery. The Union was responsible for that regardless of what Delaware and Kentucky did. For anyone who was a slave or is a descendant of slaves, the Union were the good guys in this story.
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.
I disagree with your premise that reason it was made federal holiday was to continue narrative that south is/was bad, north is/was good.
Juneteenth was made a federal holiday because the Democratic party in continuing the policy of benign neglect toward African Americans made it so in hope it would suffice along with putting a few Blacks in certain positions to get Blacks to continue support instead of receiving any REAL tangibles that would collectively empower them. Like reparations. Regardless of the greater impact of those other dates June 19 already had an emotional connection.
You are correct that Juneteenth has an emotional connection. I think it is important to know the facts and celebrate freedom.
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I call it the George Floyd day
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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.
Anit that something Felicia.the holiday just got on the national stage last year.top ranking politicians didn’t know what June 19 was
@@cheesebeef4902 they knew!!
They write history
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.
I grew up in California and I remember June teenth celebrations its funny how people think it's new 😂
My father Mississippi, Mom Oklahoma and Arkansas. Yah, we knew.
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 🙌🏾
It's. Very. Left
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Woke? Funny how facts tend to lean that way.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
Some of those oil profits should Belong to the descendants of Anderson Willis.
This video is NOT about your ancestor getting cheated. How petty of you.
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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.
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.
There has always been a Juneteenth celebration in Kansas City Missouri
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.
I'm from Buffalo, NY. Juneteenth has been celebrated for45 or 50 years each year with a parade and weekend long festival.
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.
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
Were your parents slaves?
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.
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.
Who gives a damn
Thank you for presenting this, it's very informative. Please, do the next presentation without the background music, it's distracting.
Second that motion.
3rd that, I hate music background.
Probably because states like Mississippi still had slaves up until the 1960's. The south was bad. There is no way to sugarcoat that. The south stayed bad after slavery with black codes and extreme discrimination and violence towards black Americans. Northern whites were also extremely racist towards black Americans. Although not as violent, they were still very evil towards black Americans. So if this is a ploy to give grace to the south, you failed miserably. But I appreciate the history you did bring forward. Peace.
Ask George Floyd if Northern people are worse than Southern people.
@@HistoricForrest those were cops but I suppose we would've also asked Ahmaud Arbery if we had the chance....
@@MrHustle111 You can find stories of hate across the country. Hating someone you do not know is wrong. Is it wrong to hate people just because they live in the south?
@@HistoricForrest no, it is not right to hate anyone. But it is right to fix what had been broken and learn ways to mend wounds instead of simply trying to forget or distort history.
@@MrHustle111 The way to fix things is to take hate out of the equation. There are so many good people of all races in this country. We just have to get to know them.
The music is too loud and distracting. The video is informative and good to know.✌🏻❤️🙏🏻
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 am always weary when I see a video titled, “ something the government doesn’t want you to know!” It screams 2 am infomercial.
It screams lightly researched conspiracy agenda.
What I do not understand, or appreciate, is the complete lack of recognition of the million+ soldiers and civilians who died to end slavery and absolutely no appreciation for those helped escaping slaves. My great grandparents were Quakers who gave shelter, medical care, food, clothes, even horses on 2 occasions. But, somehow, now they were supremacists, colonizers. I grew up in Appalachian Mountains. I know what having nothing feels like. Yet, I am labeled entitled. To that I answer, I am. Every US citizen AND resident are entitled. We have a choice to continue building a better future by understanding the current and appreciating the past. But, it must be on the truth. The ugly, the bad, and the good.
To add to your point I truly do believe there were Americans who truly did fight and gave their lives to end slavery.I honor their sacrifice.But the painful truth is that the Union Generals had to tell the overwhelmingly White soldiers that they were fighting first and foremost to preserve the Union.And if the slaves are freed as a consequence of a Union victory then so be it.I only say this because initially there was a great deal of dissension within the ranks for two reasons.For that time it was the belief that enslaved people were not fully human but a subspecies.So why die for a people who were deemed no better than a cow,pig,chicken or horse.The second was in response to the draft riots that took place, especially in NYC,of the mostly Irish immigrants who only had a rudimentary understanding of the true purpose and the cause of the Civil War.And that is when the Southern States voted to secede from the Union that that in itself was a provocation.The Black soldiers were told by the Union Generals that they now had the opportunity to prove that they deserved the right to be free and treated as equals in the event of a Union victory.One of my great grandfathers,who was born in 1874,worked on the docks in Baltimore in the late 19th& early 20 century.So he had the honor of befriending both former Union and Confederate soldiers.The fact that these men were willing to offer their insight as to the causes of the civil war to a Black man was greatly appreciated by my great grandfather.The Confederate soldiers offered a remarkable insight as to what awaited them even with a Confederate victory.I won't go into detail in this space but many of these mostly poor White men were aware of the autocratic nature of the Confederate leadership and had reservations as to whether the rigid class structure within White Society would change.As to your second point about White Privilege and Entitlement.The problem with this is that our society has always had trouble with explaining what it truly means.Is it monetary?Is it social? Because I know a lot of White working class people who are struggling.And always have.Me personally,I would have to define Privilege as when a society will give a people at the minimum THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, GOODNESS, TRUST, COMPETENCE AND RESPECT.TO AT LEAST MAKING IT EASIER TO NAVIGATE THROUGH COMPLEXITIES OF LIFE.Whether that translates economically in every case is debatable.But I can say without reservation that Blacks have not been afforded such Privilege for the last 400 years.Perhaps someday.Our society talks often about opportunities but never the building blocks necessary to be of sound mind and body,self esteem and confidence to get the brass ring without fear of rejection.Most parents struggle mightily to prepare their children.But American society is lacking in providing that extra layer of reinforced support for the individual.Whether it be the combination of family, community,our institutions and society itself working together to achieve this aim.
The civil war wasn't fought to free Black people. If Black men had never fought in the civil war,
the North would've lost the civil war, to the South.
@@dawnmcsweaney6521 It is incredible that as far back as 1966 when I was 10 years old and a 5th grader the teacher asked the class a supposedly innocent question. What was the cause of the CIVIL WAR?So of course my classmate answered to end Slavery. The teacher told the kid,"Very good. Correct "Just like the history books we were told to read,the teacher did not go into detail and elaborate even further to discuss other reasons for the CIVIL WAR.And simply moved on to another subject. At this point I had reached my breaking point. I had had enough of this nonsense. I will explain later. So I told the teacher that my classmates answer wasn't entirely correct. Oh really?, replied the teacher.Well mister Griffith, perhaps you should come to the front of the class and tell us since you think you are the teacher, she snorted. I gladly accepted the challenge. First I pointed out that When the Confederate States voted to secede from the Union that that in itself was not only treasonous but a serious act of provocation. At first there were negotiations to prevent a War to PRESERVE THE UNION FIRST AND FOREMOST. The issue of whether to end,continue or limit the spread of slavery any further would be discussed secondarily. The Confederate states other grievances were stronger States Rights and the unfair implementation of import and export duties levied upon their goods and raw materials as they were transported across state lines by land or sea.I pointed out that from what documentation that was shown to me by my father down at the Schomburg center, Lincoln at first considered keeping Slavery as a negotiating tool if it meant preserving the Union. But the Confederate states were steadfast in their desire to secede. Thus war could not be averted.I pointed out to the class other sources of information I read starting at the age of 8 as well as from experiences from my own family that truly gave me a greater understanding of the CIVIL WAR in a much larger context. For example, one great grandfather, who was born in 1874,had the honor of knowing both former Union and Confederate soldiers while working on the docks in Baltimore in the late 19th&early 20th century.When I told the class that there Were both White and Black Union soldiers and Black Confederate soldiers who were in the mostly supply battalions, you could hear a pin drop.In fact ALL of the Union soldiers explicitly said that the Union Generals told the White regiments that the War had to be fought to first and foremost to preserve the Union.That if the slaves were to be freed,especially in the event of a UNION victory so be it.The Black Union soldiers were told that this was an opportunity to prove that all of their people deserved to be free and treated as equals. The class didn't believe that I saw photographs of Black men in Union uniforms.From what I learned from my great grandfather, even the Confederate soldiers had reservations,even with a Confederate victory about what type of society they were going to come home to.For instance many of these poor White men thought the Confederate leadership was autocratic and that the rigid class structure amongst White people would not change. I was about to go further into the discussion but the teacher had heard enough. Here I am at 10 years old. Even if most of my classmates couldn't grasp all that I was saying, I wanted my teacher to. Why did I feel this way?I can't tell you how many times that it was implied that White people fought and died to free Black people. IN fact when I was 8 years old, a White kid said he hated Black people because White people fought and died for Black people to be free only to get nothing in return. That cut me to my soul. Can you imagine a people who have no recollection of being welcomed with open arms or warmly embraced for nearly 350 years, up to that point.Always being made to feel that their very existence makes others uncomfortable. The other.and then for the society, North and South, to lay a devastating guilt trip on a people by implying or saying out loud that they were the cause of the CIVIL WAR.Not only that,that they stood on the sidelines like cowards while the fighting was going on. Yes.Even at such a very young age I felt this vibe.Feelings of guilt and inadequacy. So through my tears at the age of eight, my parents said something that I will never forget. "SON I KNOW YOU WILL BE DETERMINED MORE THAN EVER TO GO TO SCHOOL,WORK HARD AND GET A GOOD JOB TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR OWN FAMILY SOMEDAY TO PROVE THESE WHITE PEOPLE WRONG.BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. YOUR MOTHER, FAMILY AND I WILL HELP YOU SEEK OUT THE TRUE HISTORY OF OUR PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. BECAUSE TRUTH AND LOVE IS POWER.NEVER HATE AND IGNORANCE."And here we are in 2022 and I hear Black men and Women adults over the age of 40 say,"Wow imagine if I had known this about my family or people when I was younger. How it could have given me more confidence and higher self esteem".
Well don't sit and whine about it. Go destroy those statues, monuments and buildings erected in honor of your KLANcestors and rebuild those with the names, faces and busts of the benevolent non racist whites you believe were not racist and helped the enslaved black people. It's that simple.
Also, what they always miss is slaves fought for their own freedom with the union, even though they were still treated like less of humans. Their contribution only after the union was hurting, changed the face of the war and led to crushing the confederate🤨🤨🤨
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
As factually and historically correct the points made are, this gentleman also forgets the factual and historic history of the holiday itself.
Especially from the view of the people who were enslaved.
For starters there was no internet in the 1865, so it should be stated without. So it should go without saying that freeing slaves on June 19th did not free the whole state because it would have been impossible to do so.
Juneteenth is the day the process started. Not the day the process ended.
And it has zero to do with the federal government’s agenda.
Juneteenth was historically celebrated in TX alone and then spread around the country. We’ve been celebrating the day unofficially for decades. As it spread around the country, the facts stated in this video were also shared.
We teach each other this at home. We fight for it to be taught at school but they call that CRT. The democrats were absolutely pandering at that point, but to come to this conclusion is also a showing that you are as disconnecte.
Well said!
Can you truly expect the oppressor to speak the truth about true history?
Amen
The Oppressor. Possible you'll be meeting him personally one day. Salvation is real 🙏.
Facts. I ain't even finish watching this but it already feeling like some colonizer ish
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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.
@@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.
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
I think it is great that Texas has been celebrating Juneteenth for so long.
I’m Colorado we celebrated Juneteenth since the late 80s. It’s been celebrated.
@@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?
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Been celebrating it all my life. And I'm not in texas. My parents had always celebrated it
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.
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
@@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.
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 .
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.
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”
Learn about the indigenous Indians that occupied that area at that time. Learn who and when did the first settlement happen. They will try to tell you that the Indians were wiped out and that they were cannibals. Not true though. They are the people set free. They have always done terrible things to the indigenous people of that area. All because they fought hard to keep their land. Pay attention to dates that's very important.
Thanks to everyone who has been posting about Native Americans. Now I have something new to research.
@@HistoricForrest absolutely. Truth is the most important thing. Lies cause confusion, distrust, anger and hatred. I know my families history, We know our families history. The only reason our concorers keep push this "out of Africa theory" is so they can keep control of the land. The Indians known as the politically correct Indian of today can't get the land from this government because they are not the true indigenous people of the land. But if we wake up and relearn, we can reclaim our lands. Thank you.
Dates are important!!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@@HistoricForrest you don't have nothing to research the Indians came her on the land bridge from south east Asia not sub Saharain affrica Indians were not black. Hell they look more like Eskimos then affrican
Mannnnn that blks and the indians are pretty much the same ppl... west indians and caribbean indians, um pretty sure got mixed in there to over a period of time. The fake a** 5 dollar indians was project scheme... Trail of tears...🤔 move 1 group in, move 1 group out... real slick, and just throw in some fake holidays...
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.
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
Calling enslaved people "slaves" is not being respectful to them.
Ride on Dude ! That’s some great education 🎉 We must end slavery and tyranny everywhere ! Love and truth ☀️
I agree.
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.
Like I said in the video. I think we should celebrate the end of slavery in the United States.
@@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--
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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.
HISTORY show it was Mother Africa that traded slaves to the Europeans. Then want to dwny its involvement.
@@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"?
@@TheFatman819 I have heard that, but I need to find more information on it before I can say one way or the other.
Thank you to Abe Lincoln. (Republican Party)
Deal with it! 🗣
If America taught it's true history an not the American myth maybe jus maybe America would be a better place
I believe teaching people the truth is the best way.
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!
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.
@@HistoricForrest There you go again… not true.
@@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.
@@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.
They got monetary compensation for losing slaves as well.
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.
For all that, he's just another Southern Apologist, his trafficking talk notwithstanding!
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.
Yes, the right to own other humans...
Growing up in the North, did you learn about the New Englanders such as James DeWolf who imported the slaves?
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.
Good to hear.
Juneteenth has been celebrated in my state for over 100 years since we've become a State. It was included since the beginning.
What state is that?
Great information; however, the celebration preceded the long before the government’s endorsement. It wasn’t an effort to make the South look bad.
Nope sorry but it had nothing to do with North and South had to do a Democrats in North and South who owned slaves
I've been celebrating June juneteenth since 1985..But after watching this video,you can bet your bottom dollar I will no longer celebrate it..I am Apalled....
I was taught that it's about celebrating our soldiers who fought and died in the Revolutionary War . We had to honor and bury our own because the government didn't do it. We can’t keep letting them tell us our story. He's telling His-story!
Very Strong My Brother Keep Telling The Truth! May God Bless You And Your Family
In the age of information its sad that we don't know as much as we should about our history.
Thanks for the information. It was very enlightening!!
Thank you for making this video, it is excellent. I did not know any of the facts associated with Juneteenth and now I do . I learned alot watching this video . So again thank you for just taking your time to bring this important history out .
Never want to sit through a PowerPoint w/this guy. Lo siento.
Man I struggled 2 git thru this video bruh. Thanx 4 tha effort....✌🏽😐❤
Lmao
I am “black” just to mention🙏🏿! I just want show my appreciation to this Gentleman for supporting his and my struggle!
Amazing American history!
Never learned this in school. Nor ever, even heard of it.
I agree that we should celebrate the end of legal slavery in America. We know, that as you said,it still exists in some form here
But we can not downplay the importance of the emancipation proclamation
Even though it took years to fully carry out
And yes, many northern states were complicit in the slave trade. New York very prominently. Most high profile being the founding fathers
Thank you for the detailed description of what went on during those times
I am an African American who can call it down the middle. The emancipation proclamation should be discounted for 2 reason number 1 it didn't free anybody if it did then why isn't Maryland Missouri Delaware and Kentucky not mentioned on it and number 2 Lincoln had no authorization to issue an executive order he was the president of the United States of America not the confederacy states of America they were not obligated to follow anything Lincoln tried to issue that's why it took the war. That's the inaccuracy and misrepresentation of the junetenth holiday ...do you wanna discuss this with me in detail? Because I promise you are not ready to hear the truth. Again I am an African from Arkansas who has been living in Texas the 32 yrs. who can step out side the box and call everything down the middle..in other words I can give both the u.s. and confederacy equal respect in my argument! No biasness just calling balls and strikes
@@cedricmurdock7120 if you are an "African" that means you arent descendants of U.S. slaves.
And the Confederate States of America was an unrecognized, Herrenvolk wannabe of a country.......not a real nation
From a fellow A.A., "Stop, just stop". The The Articles of Secession clearly states that the reason for the war was about the south maintaining slavery. The truth is that slaves had NO ADVOCATES in either government@@cedricmurdock7120. Juneteenth and other fabricated holidays are about Afro Americans simply trying to be validated not about historical accuracy. Just about every "white holiday" is based in a fabrication, X-mas is really the winter solstice, Halloween is really All Saints Day. This is simply another attempt at demonization under the guise of education.
@@djaxxon2015 and when I was growing up EASTER. Sunday was always the 3rd or 4th week in April didn't maybe 2 or 3 yrs ago Easter was celebrated in MARCH. ..now what's that all about
The short answer is its all about ASTROTHEOLOGY.
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!
We won't be celebrating this foolish word made-up holiday.
Thanks for watching.
HOWS IT FEEL TO HAVE YOUR DAY LIKE FATHERS DAY DURING THE SICKEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!
I appreciate the facts you’ve shared but I think the real reason for it not being promoted on December 18th is the creation of the 13th amendment and the fact that it claims to abolish slavery but what it really did was transfer slavery to the prison system which is why the prisons in America are mostly filled with minorities most of them being black/Afroamerican/aboriginals and that’s what they don’t want America to understand slavery wasn’t abolished it evolved
The for profit Prison Industrial Complex where prisoners enrich their captors. Kamala "The Cackling Catastrophy' put a couple thousand bros in prison for buying or selling $50 in drugs while she was Atty Gen of Cali, WELL DONE sis
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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
I think it is great that Galveston has celebrated Juneteenth for so many years.
Do you know about the history of Galvestons Native American tribes, Many of those tribes are now extinct.
wow, truth is the truth. However, slavery is still legal in the united states when you are incarerated for a crime or for being in the illegally.
I do not know enough about the prison system to have an opinion on this.
@@HistoricForrest you don't have to know about the prison system. It's literally in the constitution, 13th amendment to be exact. Slavery went from private ownership to state owned. It's no coincidence a slave society like the USA houses the most amount of prisoners in the world
It took about 100 years for one family, in Mississippi or Louisiana, I believe, to be freed from slavery. Look up the story of Mae Louise Miller Walls and how she and her family were kept in peonage until she, out of both bravery and desperation, IMO, ran from the plantation where they'd always been held in isolation and restrictive ignorance. Thankfully, she was found by some kind folks, hiding in some bushes, after she'd been stripped, beaten, and assaulted violently by the plantation owner. These people got the authorities involved, and in 1961 (that is NOT a typo, that is, "Nineteen sixty-one," sometimes reported as '62 or '63) she and her parents and siblings, wearing potato sacks for garments, sleeping dirt floor of the animal pen, were finally freed from illegal imprisonment, never having been told that slavery had ended a century earlier. It is a despicable story and part of U.S. History.
What a horrific sad story! But thanks for sharing this with people.
We're the " owners" charged with anything?
Please tell me that is not true 😢
I encourage folks to do their own research. I do this with almost everything I see or read on the internet. Go to expert sources, which I obviously am not. My picture is my face hidden by the dumbest chihuahua that's ever walked the planet. Her name is Milly, and I love her guts. Here is an easy way to find a whole list of experts and journalists: 1) Google Mae's full name 2) Go to her Wikipedia page 3) Scroll down to References 4) Drop that box to find articles, news reports, RUclips videos, Videos, etc on Mae, peonage (Ever heard the word peon? Doesn't mean what you might have thought it meant), slavery in the 20th century, and just about anything you might have questions about regarding Mae and her story. She should be held up as a national hero, but most of America will likely never know her name unless she's featured on an episode of "Watchmen," like the Massacre in Tulsa, OK. Or unless you all post in FB or Tweet about her. I've posted her story in FB. I don't tweet though, so I'd be very grateful if someone else tweeted about her story. Thanks for reading my comment and caring enough to reply. You've given me glimmers of hope for our world!
Thank you! I will look her up. 🤔
I think we’re missing something here. Juneteenth was celebrated decades before the government declared it a holiday. (I was always told that the idea of holding public festivities originated in Texas which makes sense after watching this). The idea that the government concocted the day to hide the information about Delaware and Kentucky doesn’t take into account the origins of the celebration. If the Government declared a December date as the “holiday” wouldn’t that ignore the historical significance of the origins of Juneteenth celebration?
So essentially what you are saying is even though it's wrong and we know better, we might as well keep doing it instead of changing it? Isn't that what the people determined to maintain slavery said? Riddle me that.
We know exactly when it is they always trying to change something. It's called control can't do it if we continue to celebrate when we've always had it June of every year. Been celebrating ever since I moved to Arizona when I found out about it.
Honestly, I feel this is two different stories ( both equally important). I am from Houston and old enough to have been around when the Juneteenth holiday was being considered in Texas. It was always about when the news was officially given to enslaved people and the fact the government brought the news and enforced it in Texas. I don't know much about the two northern states that changed their law to free their slaves but I hope they have some kind of celebration in remembrance ... cuz I think that was pretty Bad Ass of them. Texas had to be forced to comply and am pretty sure they didn't change any associated law...but they changed the law; which we all know takes time.
Thanks
@@ipissed no. That’s not at all what I’m saying. The point is the ORIGINS of celebration were based on what happened in Texas. That’s where “Juneteenth” came from. It didn’t have anything to do with when other states ratified their laws. So to change Juneteenth to December would be a slap in the face to the entire foundation of the celebration... making it something that it’s not.
I find it interesting and disturbing that this video is debating when and where enslaved people were freed (the people were enslaved, they were not slaves). Whether people were enslaved in the northern or southern states, or "freed" in either one first, the fact that any person would reduce another human being to the level of property and thought that was alright saids volume about the person who would do that. So, why are we debating whether one section of the country was good or bad? The civil war was fought over people's egos, economics and false sense of their rights (to "own" other human beings). We have human trafficking (enslaved children & adults) today for the same reason we had enslaved people then, greed, selfishness, racism, superiority complex (I am better than you), just plain evil hearts. I personally don't care what the government thinks, or whether I celebrate a holiday, but I do care about the person's attitude and behavior that I experience every day. I think all of our freedom depends on each other. America is a beautiful country with beautiful and diverse people and a beautifully written constitution that defines what freedom is. All of us are what makes America what America is. If all of it's peoples are not free, it makes the constitution a lie, and that make all of us liars. I can not celebrate freedom unless all it's people are free. Juneteenth is not just a celebration of a people being freed, or whether the north is good or the south is bad, it's a celebration of living true to what the constitution stands for, freedom for all it's people. All of America's people have fought in every war, ironically while racially separated (White, Black, Asian, Native Americans, Hispanic, of different religious). The blood of our brothers, sisters, father's, cousins, uncles, husbands and wives have soaked the soil of many battlefields due to their love for this country and a sense of duty, yet we still struggle to get alone or recognize the strength we possess when we work together. Rather than debate the past, let's work on getting our future right.
you can't stand up an honest, just & SANE future if you know very little about the past; there's a good reason the writer gore vidal nicknamed amerikkka, "the united states of amnesia". until recently, only a small segment of the US even knew anything about "juneteenth" & in case you hadn't noticed, some states controlled by republican legislatures are even enacting laws that would ban the teaching of any amerikkkan history that would make (white) children 'feel bad'. consider how that period called 'reconstruction' is taught (which is to say, barely remarked upon). there's a reason why this country is constantly embroiled in the same old problems decade after decade, century after century. a house of cards built upon sand shall not endure.
WOW!! Reading that gave me chills!! Your words are eloquent, beautiful, truthful and so heartfelt! Thank you for this...it gives me hope that we may stand a chance of surviving this madness!! ❤️!
That is the part they don't speak about. Swarthy natives were not slaves but inslaved by the people that were once slaves to native blacks. Most of the people that we consider slaves were free blacks inslaved and had their property businesses right to vote and equal rights all taken away from them and thrown into slavery.
@@koreyb ...I think it depends on where you grew up and the educational system in that particular city or state. 🤷♀️
I agree with you. We need to bring all people together and by their proper names
Thank You for taking the time to create and share this wonderfully educational and information video with us all ❤️
LET'S BE CLEAR: "At the outset of Civil War, shortly after the fighting at Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861, Kentucky's state legislature officially declared its neutrality. Kentucky did not officially align itself with the Union, nor did it secede to join the Confederate States." I wish you a lot of luck, but I find your video sounds nefarious. "Even though Delaware was a slave state and would stay one throughout the war, it would fight against slavery with the North and remain part of the United States. What side did Delaware choose? Delaware was a border state; a slave state that remained in the Union but bordered the Confederacy." So, I wonder who or whom should we speak to about such propaganda parading as "History."
Doesn't matter, the explanations at this point. Make right your wrongs. Admit it or not, everyone has and still is benefiting off the backs of my people. What I don't understand is why no one will speak up outside of our race. You know that shit was wrong.
I can not change the past. I can only help people understand it.
@@HistoricForrest You keep making that statement "I cannot change the past", what you can do is acknowledge the past is not over. Look at these comments,. Ther are truly a lot of sick people out here who claim they did.not own slaves, but spew the same hate
@@TheFatman819 Human trafficking needs to be stopped.
@@HistoricForrest Then force open the Records from Epstein's island.
Well B and B,
Shaming me and trying to make me feel guilty which is all that goes in out there
Only pisses me off.
As a survivor of Narcissistic abuse,
I will never submit or allow you or anyone else to abuse me.
And until people who cry racism stop
Using racism to fight racism, we have nothing to talk about......
But my issue with your issue is secondary to all of us being slaves and its worse than me saying our birth certificate is a BOND.
We need to band together and end the Babylonian Corporate money system.
Here is another FACT........
We do not have rights by the constitution because you are a citizen of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION OF AMERICA - caps are on purpose - the Act of 1871 was a law that sold us all down the river.
DC was formed because it is Corporate HQ.
This act led the way for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 followed by the Income tax act of 1914......
Thus, we are slaves.
The constitution States no entity other than Congress can print money....it also States
That income taxes are illegal.....
But the Act of 1871, purposefully done to make way for the other two...
I am only scratching the surface
I am not trying to be mean. I am trying to get you to see that you.are doing what they want you.to do...
Wine and cry about whitey
Instead of wining and crying with me so we can band together and truly END SLAVERY..
then we can work on personal issues
And find common ground.
We have a war to win my friend.
Everything I said is the fucking truth so help me YHWH...its in black and white
And its 3 laws.....
We have privileges and they are being taken away one by one....
If they would have told us this, a war would have broke out the day after act of 1871
We are all slaves to our survival under the oppressing curse of Original Sin.
Never really knew anything about this until I moved to Southern regions of the United States
I think that when this is celebrated, more information needs to be released to the black community versus what we've only learned in school which has been ingrained in our heads
More black people need to incorporate more education about Juneteenth into their celebrations besides getting together and having barbecues and making loud music. There are too many young adults that don't know the entire history as well as some adult so this would be a learning experience for all to celebrate
This is a vague statement
Your assertion of what we are doing during Juneteenth is jarring. You know very little about it, so you assume we know just as little. You are incorrect. Just because you are not invited to these barbecues doesn’t give you authority to comment on what’s actually going on during them. Have the day that you deserve sir.
Careful. If you buy into the Confederacy ‘s version of the Civil War they will have you believe that it was not about slavery.
The term "Juneteenth" also has the unfortunate content of supporting the asinine concept that African-Americans were less intelligent because they couldn't say "June Nineteenth" properly. However you made some errors in explaining why slavery wasn't actually abolished on June 19, 1865. The Mason-Dixon line and the Ohio River was the defacto border between the "free" and "slave" states in 1860. While most of the states south of that line seceded, there were four slave states that did not for various reasons. Two of them were immediately occupied by the Unionist army and their state governments were dissolved to prevent secession: Maryland & Missouri. Kentucky & Delaware successfully avoided such action. So when the 13th Amendment went into effect, these SOUTHERN states were the only ones where it actually ended slavery! Lastly, the holiday was enacted without following Federal law where it should have been on a Monday. So the holiday should be on the third Monday in June, just as the Martin Luther King & George Washington birthdays are the third Monday in January & February respectively.