1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, President Biden declared June teenth as 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 1: a federal national holiday. Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: end of slavery in the United States. The end of 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: slavery in the United States in eighteen sixty three, during 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: freeing slaves. However, enslaved black people living in Texas living 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: in Texas didn't know they were free until two years later. 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: It wasn't until General Granger and Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: Texas on June nineteenth, back in eighteen sixty five to 10 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: inform the slaves they were free and to enforce the 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: Emancipation Proclamation. So here's a question, guys, why do you 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: think it's important to celebrate today June teenth? I mean, 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: because of all we've gone through is one thing, you know. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, it marked the end of a period of slavery 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: four hundred years. That was the last day. Teen sixty 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: five was the last day that we were slaves in 17 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 2: the United States, the last enforcement of the Massinmation Proclamation. 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: It happened Major General Gordon Granger. I just remember Gordon 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 2: Granger Gordon Granger came down there and said, Hey, this 20 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 2: is over. Put everything down, y'all are free. What Wow, 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: death had to be a shocking day. You don't even 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: know what to do because you've been slaved your entire existence. 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out why Granger was two years late. 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: Y'ALLM calling what you want? Why was you two years late? Okay? 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: They was free in Galveston, befro before Houston, and you 26 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 3: got to go through Houston to get the Galvesy And 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 3: I got a problem with that. You passed straight through 28 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 3: Galvesy and then straight through Houston. Didn't tell us nothing 29 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 3: went up. Forty five, went to Galveston, went down there 30 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: and kicked it for two years, and then came back 31 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: and told us what was going on. Pretty sure it 32 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: wasn't No. Forty five it was it was highways, it 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 3: was dirt road something, it was country roll something. But 34 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: you went up there to the water and kicked it 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: down there for two years and didn't tell us what 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: was going on. So I got to issuate it now. 37 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: Yes, slavery was working for them. They didn't want to 38 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: give that up. I mean, you know, they wanted to 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: help hold on to it for as long as they could. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: That was free labor for them. Come on, yeah, it 41 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: was working. 42 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 4: And then when we were free, they didn't give us anything. 43 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 4: They didn't give us any land, you know, our forty 44 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 4: acres and. 45 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 3: Which meant which meant most of us wind up staying 46 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: where they already were. 47 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all we knew. That, that's all they knew. 48 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 4: So it's just like Chirley said, it's so important to 49 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 4: celebrate Juneteenth because it talks about where we've come from, 50 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 4: where we've been. It's part of our history. And when 51 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: Biden to me, when he made it a national holiday, 52 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 4: it was about educating it and correct all the things 53 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 4: that Trump is trying to take back. That was a 54 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 4: message I felt that Biden was trying to say, we 55 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 4: made it a Hilda four years ago almost four. 56 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and forever grateful for that too, you know, especially 57 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: when they're trying to erase our history. You're listening to 58 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show.