ICYMI. What Juneteenth means to Americans.
- Thread starter AOE
- Start date
BlackLivesMatter
Gold Member
Is this a Juneteenth thing? If so happy freedom day slave, a few days late.
Are you drinking that malt liquor again?
iirc, Northern Democrats didn't have slaves. Nice try making politics stupid.
NavyWings
Silver Member
Republicans freed the slaves. Just a second time is all. Note the UNION below.
On June 19, 1865, when UNION Major General Gordon Granger marched his troops into Galveston, Texas. He stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3, which began with the historic words:
"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..."
You don't understand American politics. The term Republican and Democrat is defined by the times. What you are doing is adding confusion by using outdated terms.
NavyWings
Silver Member
The "Party switch" is a myth. I'll give you an example instead of explaining the entire thing to you. Senator Robert Byrd. KKK leader in the 40's. Was a racist, segregationist DEMOCRAT the entire time. From beginning in the Democrat party until his death. He filibustered the Civil Rights Act. There was no party switch.
A Democrat signed the Civil Rights Act into office. Again, you and @Mr. Jose, don't understand American politics.
You're too much up another man's butt. Democrats care about the poor and disenfranchised.
Stop making politics about race.
NavyWings
Silver Member
Signing the bill has little to do with who was trying to stop it. Duh. Democrats don't care one bit about the poor and disenfranchised. They are but pawns in the Democrat power grab.
Let me refresh your memory. I'll even refrain from pointing out the murder rates of democrat run cities.
The economic conditions between 2017 and 2019 following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. During this period, the U.S. economy saw historically low unemployment rates for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. In 2019, the official poverty rates for Black (18.8%) and Hispanic (15.7%) Americans hit what were, at the time, record lows. Republicans thank you.
A signature piece of the 2017 tax legislation was the creation of Opportunity Zones, a bipartisan concept championed heavily by Republicans. The program allowed investors to defer or eliminate capital gains taxes if they rolled those profits into economically distressed census tracts, many of which are majority-minority communities. The most significant development for distressed, majority-minority communities came via the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 (also advanced alongside the Working Families Tax Cuts Act). Originally set to expire at the end of 2026, the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program was made permanent, giving investors long-term certainty to commit capital to historically overlooked census tracts.
The FUTURE Act of 2019. Signed into law by a Republican administration, it permanently restored $255 million in annual funding for minority-serving institutions, including HBCUs, providing long-term financial predictability that previous short-term extensions lacked.
The passage of the bipartisan First Step Act in 2018, heavily backed by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, aimed to reduce recidivism and reform federal sentencing laws. This law led to the release or sentence reduction of thousands of federal inmates, a disproportionate number of whom were Black men affected by mandatory minimums from previous decades' drug laws.
In 2026 Republicans proposed structural shifts away from traditional federal grants, favoring instead the creation of initiatives like the America First Opportunity Fund. The underlying philosophy asserts that eliminating regulatory burdens and fostering localized, private sector manufacturing and enterprise will more effectively generate stable middle-class jobs for Black and Latino workers than federal assistance programs.
I don't make politics about race. Democrats do. Every other word out of their mouth is "racist!" It doesn't even have meaning anymore. How about the stabbing of Austin Metcalf? Open and shut case but what id the democrats do? They made it about race. They do it about every single incident where there is a black individual involved. Don't tell me (Democrat) politics isn't about race.
!tulsa!
Gold Member
Two wings. Same bird. Democrats and Republicans are a uniparty. You all arguing over which is the better choice means things are working just as designed. Their PURPOSE is division, and apparently it’s working, because the more that you all argue about which party is right, the less you all are capable of voting for REAL change. They BOTH take AiPac money. They both are not held accountable for their actions. They both are imperialist in nature. WAKE UP. Help build community instead of fomenting distrust.
So, you expect every person in America to have a stable mailing address? What reality do you live in?
You do not seem to understand. Some people's realities are beyond you.
You just cannot seem to accept that some people do not have the means to vote because of their present.