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[[File:Progressive racists vow to tear down Lincoln monument.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|[[Leftwing]] [[racist]]s vowed to tear down the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/23/protester-announces-destruction-emancipation-monument/</ref>]]

[[File:Progressive racists vow to tear down Lincoln monument.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|[[Leftwing]] [[racist]]s vowed to tear down the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/23/protester-announces-destruction-emancipation-monument/</ref>]]

'''Juneteenth''' is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] ending [[slavery]] in the [[United States]].<ref>http://juneteenth.com/</ref>

'''Juneteenth''' is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] ending [[slavery]] in the [[United States]].<ref>http://juneteenth.com/</ref> It is a portmanteau of "June" and "19th", the date (in 1865) when Union troops landed in [[Galveston, Texas]] and read the Proclamation (Texas was the last state to have it read, being the most distant from the rest of the Confederacy).

[[Muhammad Ali]] is a descendant of the escaped slave depicted in the [[Emancipation Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>https://www.ebony.com/entertainment/muhammad-ali-dna-ancestry-linked-escaped-slave/</ref>  The Emancipation Memorial depicts a runaway slave being freed from the yoke of oppression by the Great Emancipator, [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/25/black-historians-call-for-preservation-of-emancipation-memorial-funded-by-freed-slaves/</ref><ref>https://100percentfedup.com/black-historian-tells-angry-blm-crowd-yall-dont-know-your-history-during-protest-in-d-c-to-remove-emancipation-statue/</ref>  In recent years white [[Marxist]] agitators have defamed and defaced monuments of the first [[Republican]] president who also freed the slaves.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2017/08/15/the-lincoln-memorial-was-vandalized-with-red-spray-paint/</ref>

[[Muhammad Ali]] is a descendant of the escaped slave depicted in the [[Emancipation Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>https://www.ebony.com/entertainment/muhammad-ali-dna-ancestry-linked-escaped-slave/</ref>  The Emancipation Memorial depicts a runaway slave being freed from the yoke of oppression by the Great Emancipator, [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/25/black-historians-call-for-preservation-of-emancipation-memorial-funded-by-freed-slaves/</ref><ref>https://100percentfedup.com/black-historian-tells-angry-blm-crowd-yall-dont-know-your-history-during-protest-in-d-c-to-remove-emancipation-statue/</ref>  In recent years white [[Marxist]] agitators have defamed and defaced monuments of the first [[Republican]] president who also freed the slaves.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2017/08/15/the-lincoln-memorial-was-vandalized-with-red-spray-paint/</ref>