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Donkees

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Wed Jun 19, 2019, 01:36 PM Jun 2019

Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday



Published on Jun 19, 2019
Understanding the legacy of slavery, the horrors of slavery, the millions of people who died as a result of slavery, is something the federal government should acknowledge. We should make Juneteenth a national holiday.
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Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday (Original Post) Donkees Jun 2019 OP
Bipartisan, Bicameral Support? How? corbettkroehler Jun 2019 #1

corbettkroehler

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1. Bipartisan, Bicameral Support? How?
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 08:25 PM
Jun 2019

John Cornyn disappoints me regularly. I don't quite know how he aligned himself with one of my heroines, Sheila Jackson-Lee. However, this effort to memorialize Emancipation Day is important and I'll take any favorable momentum I can find.

Let's do this!

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