[Lpganationaldelegates2018] Proposal, I like it credit Joe bishop

[Ryan Graham]

Not sure this made it to the list as you sent it to the list owner. :) 

I would have thought the same a few days ago, but have since been
schooled a bit. We're going to be releasing an article real soon about
how Juneteenth takes away from the experiences of black folks today.
Celebrating it sounds too much like "Mission Accomplished" when it's
not. 

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In Liberty,
 Ryan Graham
 Vice Chairman, Libertarian Party of Georgia 

On 2018-06-19 22:35, Nathan Wilson wrote:

> Today is Juneteenth. It's the day in 1865 when the last slaves in the Confederacy were freed, after Union General Gordon Granger climbed up a Galveston balcony and shouted: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor." 
> 
> (Slaves in Kentucky and Delaware, which were not covered by the Emancipation Proclamation, were freed later upon the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, on December 18, 1865). 
> 
> I propose that Libertarians endorse the effort to  make today's date a national Emancipation Day holiday. A day when people became freer than the day before should be commemorated.
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