malibucharles said:

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Back around 1950 Juneteenth was important to my family. Why? Because we grew watermelons on our family farm and we always timed the planting to have them ready for picking by Juneteenth. It was a big celebration day among the black population in East Texas and we wanted to have our watermelons ready to sell. I venture to say very few people around the country knew about it, but if you grew watermelons for a living in East Texas you were well aware of it.

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We always celebrated Juneteenth because it was my brother's birthday. What did he always want? Fried chicken, black eyed peas, watermelon and Big Red vanilla floats.

According to Joe Biden when he signed into law juneteenth as the 11th Federal Holliday, the holliday is about:

"the ongoing work to have to bring true equity and racial justice into American society."

"In short, this day doesn't just celebrate the past; it calls for action today."

While the quotes were taken from a daily wire article, I generally agree with the sentiment in it, that being that Juneteenth is no longer about what it used to mean (an end to slavery), and instead is used as a vehicle to insert more racial division into the country.

The way my wife and I have celebrated it? We sat in front of our computer while she wrote an FNMA 1025 for a tri-plex, and I wrote a 1004 for a $1MM dollar home and am finishing up a 1 unit Field Review of another Appraisers work. The best way to celebrate freedom is by doing what you please, and on a Monday that means we are pleased to have the freedom to go to work, instead of getting drunk & trashing the local park.

Working. For most Texas state agencies, Juneteenth is a Skelton crew day, which means minimal staffing is required to keep operations going. I am a TxDOT employee, and I will get 8 hours of compensatory time that I can use within 12 months.

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Ridgeback85 said:

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I actually think it is very cool that the entire nation celebrates the day that freedom to slaves was announced in Texas. I am not going to let politicians taint my view of June 19th. It is not a holiday for me but I like to remember this day. I will probably try to cook some burgers tonight and talk about the importance of the announcement on this day in 1865 in Galveston with my young children. I am sure we are all thankful we do not practice legalized slavery the way we did in those days.(FYI, I am a conservative Republican voter)

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Sooooo

You get that Slavery was still not officially ended for another 6 months after Juneteenth right?

Don't fall for Leftists mythmaking that Texas was the last holdout of slavery in America. It was still entirely legal in the Union border states for another 6 months until Emancipation Day in December of that year.

But as usual the truth isn't convenient for Dems so they manufacture a lie instead

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I don't know that much about how freedom came to each state. I have never heard a claim that we were the last state but it would not surprise me that someone made the claim. My only consideration is that it was announced in my state on this day and I consider that a good thing. I have never felt guilty for owning a slave because ... well ... I never owned one. I am just glad that people who are involved in slave trade in our country today are breaking the law and will be sent to jail if caught.

Went to lunch with some friends and then by the bank on the way back. ClOSED. Before long the dems will have every day a holiday. Who is going to work? No reason for a bank to close.

Maroon Dawn said:

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Ridgeback85 said:

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I actually think it is very cool that the entire nation celebrates the day that freedom to slaves was announced in Texas. I am not going to let politicians taint my view of June 19th. It is not a holiday for me but I like to remember this day. I will probably try to cook some burgers tonight and talk about the importance of the announcement on this day in 1865 in Galveston with my young children. I am sure we are all thankful we do not practice legalized slavery the way we did in those days.(FYI, I am a conservative Republican voter)

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Sooooo

You get that Slavery was still not officially ended for another 6 months after Juneteenth right?

Don't fall for Leftists mythmaking that Texas was the last holdout of slavery in America. It was still entirely legal in the Union border states for another 6 months until Emancipation Day in December of that year.

But as usual the truth isn't convenient for Dems so they manufacture a lie instead

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Who here or anywhere else has made that claim?

TexAgs91 said:

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By badmouthing the party of slavery and the KKK

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Is to a travesty that even at black colleges, they do not teach the actual history of blacks and slavery as it pertains to the Democratic party.

APHIS AG said:

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TexAgs91 said:

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By badmouthing the party of slavery and the KKK

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Is to a travesty that even at black colleges, they do not teach the actual history of blacks and slavery as it pertains to the Democratic party.

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How do you know that?

malibucharles said:

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Back around 1950 Juneteenth was important to my family. Why? Because we grew watermelons on our family farm and we always timed the planting to have them ready for picking by Juneteenth. It was a big celebration day among the black population in East Texas and we wanted to have our watermelons ready to sell. I venture to say very few people around the country knew about it, but if you grew watermelons for a living in East Texas you were well aware of it.

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aggiehawg said:

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malibucharles said:

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Back around 1950 Juneteenth was important to my family. Why? Because we grew watermelons on our family farm and we always timed the planting to have them ready for picking by Juneteenth. It was a big celebration day among the black population in East Texas and we wanted to have our watermelons ready to sell. I venture to say very few people around the country knew about it, but if you grew watermelons for a living in East Texas you were well aware of it.

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We always celebrated Juneteenth because it was my brother's birthday. What did he always want? Fried chicken, black eyed peas, watermelon and Big Red vanilla floats.

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Wait...wut?

I know what I'm making tomorrow...

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TexAgs91 said:

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By badmouthing the party of slavery and the KKK

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Is to a travesty that even at black colleges, they do not teach the actual history of blacks and slavery as it pertains to the Democratic party.

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Dems are still keeping the blacks on the plantation

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Not going out into the backcountry for three days, thanks to excessive snow accumulation.

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inconvenient truth said:

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Ryan the Temp said:

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Not going out into the backcountry for three days, thanks to excessive snow accumulation.

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aggiehawg said:

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malibucharles said:

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Back around 1950 Juneteenth was important to my family. Why? Because we grew watermelons on our family farm and we always timed the planting to have them ready for picking by Juneteenth. It was a big celebration day among the black population in East Texas and we wanted to have our watermelons ready to sell. I venture to say very few people around the country knew about it, but if you grew watermelons for a living in East Texas you were well aware of it.

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We always celebrated Juneteenth because it was my brother's birthday. What did he always want? Fried chicken, black eyed peas, watermelon and Big Red vanilla floats.

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I also had an affinity for Big Red floats but recommend lime ice cream in them.

Finna rob a McDonald's

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I also had an affinity for Big Red floats but recommend lime ice cream in them.

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Baby, it was the sixties, lime ice cream was a nonstarter. For his birthday, Mom made the vanilla ice cream.

Okay, she made the cream, Dad worked the rock salt and crank to make the ice cream.

In later years, going to Howard Johnsons for fried clams became the birthday dinner for everyone in our family. Lime sherbet for dessert though. Does that count?

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Went to lunch with some friends and then by the bank on the way back. ClOSED. Before long the dems will have every day a holiday. Who is going to work? No reason for a bank to close.

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Saw a sign in the commercial drive through at my locally owned bank saying they would be closed for Juneteenth. First time ever. And though the makeup of the employees has drastically changed over the past five years (it didn't change very much over the 51 years prior) I know quite well nearly everyone on the board of directors and know things about some of them they wouldn't want others to know. I guess even they get fearful and implement things they don't really have any interest in but do so for appearances.

Only times I got churned ice cream it was peach, and at my uncle's chicken ranch in Lometa - and it was also the sixties. They quit that practice after their whole family got food poisoning once. Nothing too serious just a whole lot of bathrooming.

The lime I liked was very smooth and in Corpus Christi by the now defunct Knolle Dairy.

Edited to add an oldie about ice cream that could be played on Juneteenth,
especially if tweaked by a modern band...

Rongagin71 said:

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Only times I got churned ice cream it was peach, and at my uncle's chicken ranch in Lometa - and it was also the sixties. They quit that practice after their whole family got food poisoning once. Nothing too serious just a whole lot of bathrooming.

The lime I liked was very smooth and in Corpus Christi by the now defunct Knolle Dairy.

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Peach was favorite too because my gradfather had 144 peach trees. When we got "rich" we had two ice cream makers (crank style) going. Vanilla and peach. On occasion, strawberry when I begged enough and they wanted to shut me up. But it became peach and strawberry because of my grandfather...who had five freezers full of frozen peaches.

We make homemade ice cream 10 or 12 times during the summer. I forget how old the recipe is, but it goes way, way back. Puts Blue Bell to shame I tell you! All this talk is going to cause me to make some this Sunday, lol.