Juneteenth…

Do the Irish have a Federal holiday? The Jews? The Italians? Whites?

Do most know there were more white slaves than black?

Is this just one more way to divide us?

How the worms on Capitol Hill voted for a Federal holiday to curry favor for votes they need from a segment of our United States population ?

Juneteenth. Is it a separatist farce?

Has the ’70s upraised fist militancy that spawned this Juneteenth “tradition” evolved five decades later to the now marxist “Black Lives Matter” disease that further exploits and feeds national divisiveness based on skin color?

Did you know that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780?

“A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.

“In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.

Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.”

Why doesn’t our country celebrate white enslaved Christians (or for that matter, slaves of every persuasion) with a Federal Holiday and special flag that flies alongside the Stars and Stripes?

“Juneteenth’s” flag.

The name “Juneteenth” is a mishmash originated by the same mindset of ’70’s Black militants (following the LBJ’s Civil Rights movement of the ’60s) who then and now give their children mishmashed names to reflect an African heritage, whether or not their bloodline emanated from that continent and regardless of the number of generations who have lived and claimed citizenship of these United States. To wit:  Ashanti, Shaquille, LeBron, Jamala, Dajonga, Jakeela, D’Shawn, Juwan, Chantel, LaKeisha, M’onique, D’Andre, etc.

From Interesting Facts.com:

Juneteenth is a more recent addition to most American calendars, and the first new federal holiday in nearly four decades. So it might come as a surprise that the celebration already has a flag of its own, and one that’s been around for more than 25 years.

Designed back in 1997, the flag came about at a time when advocates were rallying for the holiday — which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. — to gain federal recognition.

In the years since, the design (originally crafted by activist Ben Haith) has undergone minor changes but remains heavy with symbolism. The banner’s solid white star represents freedom and nods to Texas (aka the Lone Star State) for its role in the creation of Juneteenth; on June 19, 1865, enslaved people were officially emancipated in Texas more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery in Confederate states.

Also featured on the flag is a white sunburst, portraying new beginnings. Both stars sit atop an arching blue and red horizon that signifies optimism for the future.

The three-toned flag purposely uses the same colors as the American flag as a reminder that formerly enslaved people and their descendants are Americans, too, despite the country’s history of unequal rights.

Juneteenth’s official flag is raised alongside the Stars and Stripes above government buildings, on college campuses, and in front yards around the country, but it also sometimes appears next to the Pan-African flagat reunions, block parties, and other Juneteenth festivities.

Introduced in 1920 by a group led by political activist Marcus Garvey, the three-striped banner of the Pan-African flag is identifiable by its horizontal red, black, and green bands, which represent the blood, people, and growth of the African diaspora.

Both flags are meant as inspiring symbols of unity and remembrance — ideas worth celebrating on America’s second Independence Day.”

In reality, Juneteenth does the opposite – instead of inspiring unity, it declares separation, setting itself apart from the rest of America.

Federal holiday? Symbolism flying alongside our national flag?

Are we the UNITED States? Really? No offense meant to our “black” brethren, but isn’t this over-the-top and detrimental to our national unity as one people?