{"id":1950760,"date":"2023-06-19T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:52:29","slug":"juneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth endangers American civic customs."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjuneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1950760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Happy Juneteenth!<\/strong> Today we as Americans commemorate the issuing of General Order No. 3 by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in 1865, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas and thus marking an official end to slavery across the continental U.S. following the conclusion of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1980, Juneteenth has been recognized as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-reinstates-death-sentence-for-boston-marathon-bomber\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber\">state holiday<\/a> in Texas. But more and more states have officially recognized Juneteenth in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-teacher-sues-school-board-after-being-fired-he-refused-to-compromise-on-trans-pronouns\/\" title=\"Flashback: Teacher Sues School Board After Being Fired \u2013 He Refused To Compromise on Trans Pronouns\">recent years<\/a>; despite most Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/16\/us\/politics\/juneteenth-holiday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not knowing<\/a> what it is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-and-big-techs-seismic-shift-to-the-left\/\" title=\"Mainstream Media and Big Tech\u2019s Seismic Shift to the Left\">powerful institutions<\/a> have tried to mainstream it.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2021 response to the racial animosity from the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/09\/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summer of rage<\/a>, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law after it passed both chambers of Congress with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/17\/juneteenth-federal-holiday-biden-signs-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overwhelming support<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But recognizing the end of black enslavement is not what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-pro-gay-marriage-bill-with-47-republicans-voting-in-favor\/\" title=\"House Passes Pro-Gay Marriage Bill With 47 Republicans Voting in Favor\">federal recognition<\/a> of Juneteenth is actually about. After all, it\u2019s not as though anyone in the U.S. is <em>upset<\/em> slavery was abolished; black Americans are widely celebrated at every level of American society. But as earlier indicated, Juneteenth simply hasn\u2019t caught on.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, in an act of leftist intersectional solidarity and conservative cultural capitulation, Juneteenth became the U.S.\u2019s 11th federal holiday, not counting Inauguration Day, and the second explicitly dedicated to American \u201cindependence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The very name of the legislation is incredibly revealing. Referring to it as a \u201cNational Independence Day\u201d \u2014 as opposed to the Fourth of July, America\u2019s original Independence Day, that doesn\u2019t enjoy the \u201cnational\u201d language \u2014 is semantic manipulation intended to convey that <em>this<\/em> is the real independence day. This bestowal of honor on Juneteenth is an exercise in refounding the country in accordance with the priorities of the intersectional identitarian left (e.g., direct democracy, expansive legal privileges for preferential political groups, and the weaponization of government against \u201cbitter clingers\u201d) in the pursuit of casting aside the few remaining constitutional and republican norms of the American founding such as a societal reverence for natural law and federalism.<\/p>\n<p>But because most Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/17\/poll-most-americans-are-not-confident-juneteenth-should-be-a-federal-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rightfully skeptical<\/a> of the people telling them to disregard their traditions and culture, it\u2019s why corporate entities must work in union with the federal government to monolithically <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/25\/pride-month-is-a-cynical-exercise-in-state-enforced-homosexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">push cultural agendas<\/a> like Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth is a direct challenge to the few remaining columns of America\u2019s civic pantheon. The old traditions of patriotic service and duty are rapidly fading, and in place rises an aggressive, ever<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-threatens-americas-civic-traditions\/\" title=\"Juneteenth endangers American civic customs.\">-expanding civil rights regime<\/a>, maliciously motivated by identitarian grievance, that reduces Americans to the sum of their parts while stripping them of their uniqueness as individual actors in our somehow still enduring republic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Samuel Mangold-Lenett is a staff editor at The Federalist. His writing has been featured in the Daily Wire, Townhall, The American Spectator, and other outlets. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @smlenett.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Samuel Mangold-Lenett<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n            <span>Visit on Twitter<\/span><br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smlenett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@smlenett<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Juneteenth! Today we honor General Order No. 3, issued by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in 1865, which enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, officially ending slavery across the U.S. after the Civil War. 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