THIS below is the list that I found to be insulting. Of this poster
thinks some silly beach ritual and dimpled chads are on a par with
slavery, he needs to do some quick (and open-minded) reading of history.
Sorry for any misunderstanding of my previous post on the subject.
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Yojsouth wrote:
> Well, here are some others that are celebrated in some states:
>
> National Dimpled Chad Day (Jan. 4)
>
> Hoodie-Hoo Day (Feb. 20) (You wave a beach blanket at the sun and
> shout Hoodie-Hoo twice and it guarantees warmer weather)
>
> Be a Millionaire" Day (May 16)
>
> Eliza Doolittle Day (May 20)
>
>
> In a message dated 01/23/07 16:03:00 Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Why would you not want to celebrate the end of slavery, unless you
> miss
> it? Even year people of my faith celebrate our release from
> slavery in
> Egypt some 3,000 years ago; surely African Americans should do the
> same;
> as should white Americans who can celebrate the end of their tragic
> relationship to the sytem.
>
> Forgetting slavery would mean forgetting a central piece of American
> history; forgetting the experience of 40% or more of the Virginia
> population (if we include the masters and their families it would be
> about 75%) up to 1865; it would be forgetting the cause of the
> civil war
> and the reason the Confederacy was created (Slavery was the
> "cornerstone" of the Confederacy according Confederate Vice President
> Alexander Stephens).
>
> Juneteenth is problematic for Va. although it is recognized as the day
> slavery was finally over in Texas. I would think Emancipation Day
> (Jan.
> 1) or the day of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, would make
> more
> sense.
>
> Paul FInkelman
>
> Paul Finkelman
> President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
> and Public Policy
> Albany Law School
> 80 New Scotland Avenue
> Albany, New York 12208-3494
>
> 518-445-3386
> [log in to unmask]
>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/23/07 3:45 PM >>>
> Slavery, and the end thereof, is something better forgotten than
> celebrated.
>
>
>
> In a message dated 01/23/07 15:43:07 Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Yojsouth wrote:
>
>> Just another made up PC holiday like Kwanza.
>>
>>
>
> This is inaccurate. In Austin, Texas, "Juneteenth was first
> celebrated
> in 1867 under the direction of the Freedmen's Bureau, and became part
> of the calendar of public events by 1872." More at
> http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/lkj1.html,
> including bibliography.
>
> Its observance in Virginia is another matter, of course, though there
> were celebrations recorded widely when news of Emancipation reached
> Virginia's slaves and, as Harold Forsythe notes, commemorative
> celebrations followed for many years.
>
> Why not research the day when most who commemorated Emancipation in
> Virginia chose to do so (April 9? January 1?), and encourage official
> commemorations then?
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
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