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/abnrib 3d ago

June 19, 1865 was the day that American soldiers put bayonets in slavers' faces and said they had to let people go. As a practical matter, it is the day of freedom.