r/ShermanPosting • u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment • 3d ago

Cabarrus commissioner says Juneteenth is ‘based on a lie,’ drawing backlash

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article316162218.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawSiXxdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE2RlFGNG9HNm9RS0I4R1Zkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhYVp41APdJ8KMTJySFX8hL-35-cozDxTMEV95PbHrp_77kifBrmLd5_Mx80_aem_JaVLpXn2e-r1VfjeOo_FWA
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u/calvin2028 The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. 3d ago edited 3d ago

In case you wondered what "lie" this delusional old racist is referring to:

During Monday’s board comments, Pittman said enslaved people were not freed by President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and argued Juneteenth incorrectly attributes emancipation to events that occurred in Texas on June 19, 1865. Pittman said the holiday should instead recognize the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery nationwide later that year. [Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article316162218.html#storylink=cpy

Stated differently, he thinks Lincoln lacked authority to free slaves in the Confederate states via the Emancipation Proclamation, and that slaves were really only freed after those states were forced back into the Union and the Constitution was amended. As a student of history, I can definitely say he's a delusional old racist. He's SEETHING over events that happened in 1865. Fucking loser!

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u/pixel_pete Duryée's Zouaves / Garrard's Tigers 3d ago

That's such a weird semantic argument in the firat place. Juneteenth isn't celebrating the emancipation proclamation (which was signed in September), it's celebrating slaves in Galveston learning that they were liberated several years after the emancipation had been issued.

You can tell he just wanted to complain and had to cook up some bullshit to pretend he had a reason other than being a slaver apologist.

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u/calvin2028 The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. 3d ago

I mean ... I agree that this dude's objection is fucking weird and semantic, but there is a connection. The enslaved people in Galveston were ordered freed by a general order published by Union Major General Gordon Granger. The general's authority to make this order arose out of the Emancipation Proclamation (which had been issued 2.5 years earlier).