{"id":43230,"date":"2020-06-19T01:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43230"},"modified":"2020-06-19T01:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:48:38","slug":"juneteenth-sure-i-knew-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43230","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth? Sure &#8230; I knew about it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Juneteenth%20%23slavery%20%23emancipation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump is taking a bizarre tack by taking credit for raising public awareness of Juneteenth, a day revered by the African-American community.<\/p>\n<p>What a weirdo!<\/p>\n<p>Trump was going to stage a political rally on Friday in Tulsa, Okla. That would be Juneteenth. African-Americans and other Americans raised hell about the timing of the rally, given Trump&#8217;s rather <em>distant<\/em> relationship with the African-American community, which has been heightened in recent weeks with the deaths of black men who were being detained by white police officers.<\/p>\n<p>So, Trump postponed his rally by one day. It&#8217;s now going to be Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Then what did Trump do? He said few Americans knew about Juneteenth until he called attention to it. <em>What? Huh? Are you kidding me?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the record, I knew about Juneteenth. It occurred on June 19, 1865 when African-Americans learned in Galveston that they were being freed from enslavement. The Civil War had ended a couple of months earlier, but the word about blacks&#8217; emancipation was slow getting out to all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>OK, but Trump has this goofy way of taking credit when he doesn&#8217;t deserve it. Thus, he is somehow trying to spin this dust-up over a political rally on Juneteenth, juxtaposed with the Black Lives Matter that&#8217;s been re-energized by the deaths of black men in police custody into a &#8220;positive&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Juneteenth%20%23slavery%20%23emancipation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is taking a bizarre tack by taking credit for raising public awareness of Juneteenth, a day revered by the African-American community. What a weirdo! Trump was going to stage a political rally on Friday in Tulsa, Okla. That would be Juneteenth. African-Americans and other Americans raised hell about the timing of the rally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Juneteenth? Sure &#8230; I knew about it!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8384,9404,4286],"class_list":["post-43230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-emancipation-proclamation","tag-juneteenth","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43232,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230\/revisions\/43232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}