Republicans Use Juneteenth History Lessons to Recast Themselves as Civil-Rights Champions
Populist image-laundering via selective historical framing
Dozens of GOP accounts issued nearly identical threads explaining the 1865 emancipation timeline, positioning their party as the natural heir of abolitionists. The coordinated messaging glosses over modern Republican efforts to restrict Black voting power, using selective history to sanitize today’s record and attract swing voters offended by overt culture-war rhetoric.
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Dozens of GOP accounts issued nearly identical threads explaining the 1865 emancipation timeline, positioning their party as the natural heir of abolitionists. The coordinated messaging glosses over modern Republican efforts to restrict Black voting power, using selective history to sanitize today’s record and attract swing voters offended by overt culture-war rhetoric.
You post this, but then don't embrace the emancipation it signified. You post this and then assist your party in trying to eliminate the voting rights minorities have fought and died to have access to. The Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln. It is the party of Trump and hateful Christian Nationalism. It doesn't matter what the party name is, it matters what is behind the works it does. And today's Rep…
No, this is the day they were officially freed in Galveston Texas. January 1, 1863 — Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation legally freed enslaved people only in Confederate‑held territory, not the whole country. June 19, 1865 — Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and enforced emancipation for the last large group still under Confederate control. This is Juneteenth. December 6, 1865 — The 13th Amendment was rati…
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You post this, but then don't embrace the emancipation it signified. You post this and then assist your party in trying to eliminate the voting rights minorities have fought and died to have access to. The Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln. It is the party of Trump and hateful Christian Nationalism. It doesn't matter what the party name is, it matters what is behind the works it does. And today's Republicans, who embrace the Confederate flag, would side with the slavers in the South and make sure all people weren't allowed to be free and equal.
What is thhe historical connection between the Republican Party and Juneteenth! It stems from the party's origins as a 19th-century anti-slavery coalition and its leadership during the Civil War.The political and military actions that led directly to June 19, 1865, evolved through several key phases: The Party's Anti-Slavery FoundationsThe Republican Party was founded in the 1854 as a direct response to the expansion of slavery into Western territories. The core tenets centered on the concept of "free soil, free labor, and free men". When the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected in 1860, southern slaveholding states seceded, sparking the Civil War. The Emancipation ProclamationAs the Civil War progressed, President Lincoln and congressional Republicans shifted the Union’s war objectives from solely preserving the Union to actively dismantling chattel slavery.
Thank you for highlighting this important day. Juneteenth is also a reminder of the leadership of the Republican Party and President Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation began the process that led to freedom being realized for enslaved Americans. Freedom is always worth celebrating.
Your post reads as if we are celebrating Granger and his trip to Galveston. The sacrifices by Granger to make the trip? Today we remember the people who years after the emancipation proclamation were finally told of their freedom!
Posting about Juneteenth and Emancipation Day while supporting and rubber stamping the actions of an administration that has supported the gutting of the voting rights act, ceased to enforce civil rights protections, is actively eliminating rules so it can pursue "discrimination" against white people, has fired many qualified people because of their race, and has only allowed three non-white refugees into our country since the start of the term. You have some nerve.
They were told they were free 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation!
I notice that this post avoids the word 'people,' The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed freedom for enslaved people. This informed enslaved people that they were free. The wording used here is dehumanizing and likely one more dog whistle that Black American people endure. White people, especially white leaders, must do better.
Commemorate the fact that the hundreds of thousands slaves out west were finally notified about their freedom YEARS after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. They were left enslaved and taken advantage of by slaveholders in the South that didn’t want to lose their free labor.
The news of the Emancipation Proclamation had reached Galveston prior. Juneteenth commemorates when Union Army troops arrived to *enforce* it. Not the first or last time federal involvement was necessary in protecting the civil rights of historically marginalized citizens.
No, this is the day they were officially freed in Galveston Texas. January 1, 1863 — Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation legally freed enslaved people only in Confederate‑held territory, not the whole country. June 19, 1865 — Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and enforced emancipation for the last large group still under Confederate control. This is Juneteenth. December 6, 1865 — The 13th Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery nationwide. This is when everyone was legally freed, including enslaved people in Union states like Kentucky and Delaware. research your history.