[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by Ben Franklin

Actually, the article said 35% for, 25 against, and "at least 40 percent of those surveyed said they weren’t sure whether it should be federally implemented or they were simply [were] unfamiliar with the holiday and its origins."

Let's do some educating. White men became free, after mobs started attacking British owned corporations, and towns, beginning as early as the Boston Tea Party, where mobs of white people attacked several ships, owned by British corporations on taxation issues, and culminated with the The Battle of Yorktown, and then became a free country for white men on 7-4-1776.

Black people were not freed until 2.5 years after the Civil War, in some southern states. Federal troops had to be called to Texas in order to free them, on June 19 1865. The last known lynching of a black man was in 1981, yes, 1981. Juneteenth celebrates their freedom.

What's there to understand?

Free African Americans Before the Civil War (National Institute • FamilySearch)

Anthony Johnson (colonist - Wikipedia)