Juneteenth - 06.19.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In twenty twenty one, President Biden declared June teenth as
a federal national holiday. Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the
end of slavery in the United States. The end of
slavery in the United States in eighteen sixty three, during
the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation,

(00:20):
freeing slaves. However, enslaved black people living in Texas living
in Texas didn't know they were free until two years later.
It wasn't until General Granger and Union soldiers arrived in Galveston,
Texas on June nineteenth, back in eighteen sixty five to
inform the slaves they were free and to enforce the

(00:41):
Emancipation Proclamation. So here's a question, guys, why do you
think it's important to celebrate today June teenth? I mean,
because of all we've gone through is one thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, it marked the end of a period of slavery
four hundred years. That was the last day. Teen sixty
five was the last day that we were slaves in
the United States, the last enforcement of the Massinmation Proclamation.
It happened Major General Gordon Granger. I just remember Gordon
Granger Gordon Granger came down there and said, Hey, this

(01:13):
is over. Put everything down, y'all are free. What Wow,
death had to be a shocking day. You don't even
know what to do because you've been slaved your entire existence.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm trying to figure out why Granger was two years late.
Y'ALLM calling what you want? Why was you two years late? Okay?
They was free in Galveston, befro before Houston, and you
got to go through Houston to get the Galvesy And
I got a problem with that. You passed straight through
Galvesy and then straight through Houston. Didn't tell us nothing
went up. Forty five, went to Galveston, went down there

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and kicked it for two years, and then came back
and told us what was going on. Pretty sure it
wasn't No. Forty five it was it was highways, it
was dirt road something, it was country roll something. But
you went up there to the water and kicked it
down there for two years and didn't tell us what
was going on. So I got to issuate it now.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, slavery was working for them. They didn't want to
give that up. I mean, you know, they wanted to
help hold on to it for as long as they could.
That was free labor for them. Come on, yeah, it
was working.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
And then when we were free, they didn't give us anything.
They didn't give us any land, you know, our forty
acres and.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Which meant which meant most of us wind up staying
where they already were.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, that's all we knew. That, that's all they knew.
So it's just like Chirley said, it's so important to
celebrate Juneteenth because it talks about where we've come from,
where we've been. It's part of our history. And when
Biden to me, when he made it a national holiday,
it was about educating it and correct all the things

(02:53):
that Trump is trying to take back. That was a
message I felt that Biden was trying to say, we
made it a Hilda four years ago almost four.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, and forever grateful for that too, you know, especially
when they're trying to erase our history. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.