What is Juneteenth? History behind holiday celebrating the end of slavery

These comments are hilarious. "This holiday was never taught in school" "why am I just hearing about this?" All of these videos appear 1 year ago for a reason.

Juneteenth does not represent the end of slavery in America, as it is often erroneously reported. It specifically notes the end of slavery in Texas. Slavery continued to thrive in several border states that were not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation. Delaware was the last to free its nearly 2,000 slaves on Dec. 6, 1865, six months after Texas.

This does nothing for black people just another holiday to say they did something for us. We deserve so much more than this. Why is it that other races get more than black people. We need to start voting for people who are going to do and not just say what their going to do. We need to stop voting for these people that sit in WASHINGTON that talk a good game but never play a good game. Even our local candidates need to change. I am tired of the same people speaking and not doing. IT TIME FOR A NEW CHANGE IN WASHINGTON AND LOCAL STATES!!!

I think Juneteenth started out with good intentions but it's turned into a holiday that's all about entitlement which is not what it was originally intended.

This is a joke

I'm 63 and never heard of it

my Left Ear enjoyed This

So many effin racist Caucasians in the comments 🤦🏻‍♀️

A wise man once said nothing!

My right ear sure does love the music

If this has been a celebrated holiday why am I only hearing about it now at 36 yrs old??? Social studies and American history were my favorite classes in school and I don't remember hearing about this "Juneteenth" much less celebrating it... Further more my son's birthday is June 19 and every year the last passed 12 years I've checked a calendar to see what day it falls on and barely till 2021 have I seen it marked on my phone's calendar as a "holiday"... This seems like a lazy way to mark a historical date.

It’s a day of celebration with the looting and vandalizing of a McDonald’s in Los Angeles, with a mass shooting in Illinois, of illegally riding dirt bikes and quads in the street and of jumping up and down on cars! That’s what it is!

Did they just misspell june 10 ???

The ignorance displayed by many of the comments here is astounding. Juneteenth wasn't celebrated openly for years because of Jim Crow laws and the harassment Black people experienced when attempting to assemble to celebrate this memorable occasion. The vitriol in the comments here explains why people are not knowledgeable about the significance of Juneteenth to African-American people. You can only learn if you are interested in learning. If you are interested in holding on to what you already know, you are choosing now to grow in your understanding.

Something is off with that date smh

Can I have a holiday that celebrates that I’m taxed at 35% so people that don’t work can get free stuff ?

The funny thing is i knew nothing about Juneteenth Being on my bday,Today i just figured that I had a national holiday as a birthday!I definitely want to learn more about this because i Have always wanted a holiday as a bday and my wish came true!

YAY! THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY!

For most states other than Texas it may have been celebrated, but known as something else. My family in Wisconsin celebrated Emancipation Day/Jubilee and people in Wisconsin have been celebrating since 1886. Some states in the US actually emancipated enslaved people long before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed so dates vary and the names used differ (Jubilee/Emancipation Day). Pennsylvania and New York, freed enslaved people gradually in the late 1700s so the holiday is not new and did not begin with Texas and sadly Texas was not the last state to free enslaved people in the US. Now most people will call it Juneteenth.

The audio is poorly distributed, the person talking comes in entirely on the left side of headphones while everything else is entirely through the right side.