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Trump reschedules campaign rally in Tulsa 'out of respect' for Juneteenth
[UPI] President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
announced he rescheduled his first rally since March in Tulsa, Okla., after receiving criticism for originally setting the event on Juneteenth.

The original date -- June 19 -- marks a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. Between the timing and location, some critics saw the event as insensitive to African Americans, particularly as Black Lives Matter protests sweep the nation.

Tulsa is the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a bloody event that killed up to 300 African Americans in the Greenwood District, known as "Black Wall Street" for its more than 300 black-owned businesses.

Trump announced on Twitter late Friday night that the rally date would be moved.
Posted by: Fred || 06/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Between all the Muslim holy days and Black History Month Eternity, we may as well never get out of bed.

It'd be disrespctful.
Posted by: charger || 06/14/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Hope it happens before October 10 when the new Chevies come out...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 06/14/2020 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Scheduling on "Juneteenth" was "insensitive." Re scheduling for the next day is "grandstanding,"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The Orange Man is ultimate evil - worse than "Zionists".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2020 3:01 Comments || Top||

#5  They wet themselves regularly at ZH and Unz over Orange Man's Zionist ties.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 3:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Good call.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/14/2020 3:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, a good call. I'm sure Trump's people didn't know about "Juneteenth." Nor should they. I mean, a holiday about an executive order from a Republican President? How offensive.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 3:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Bumping a rally to a Saturnday is better, especially when it gets it off the same day as big crowds that might otherwise create headlines if things got hostile - and you can bet your ass BLM would make sure thing did get hostile.

Mucus, you're an asshole and all you do is shitpost. Likely the staffer didn't know. Juneteenth used to be only a Texas thing
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/14/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Between Gromit and Mucus, S/N ration here is dropping fast.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/14/2020 6:07 Comments || Top||

#10  What? Juneteenth would never had happen if it wasn't for Republicans. You should celebrate it as a manifestation of the original Black Lives Matter movement. Own it! Take it from the Donks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/14/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Emancipation Proclamation was signed January 1, 1863. It was on June 19th, 1865 that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the slaves there were now free.

"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer."

Apparently it took 2-1/2 years before the news was first given to the former slaves that they were actually now free.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/14/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#12  GOPe has always seemed sort of embarrassed about what Lincoln did.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#13  BTW, we now know MT7566 is Glenn Reynolds.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#14  It's signal to noise ratio, dickwad. And day drinking implies it's daytime where you are...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#15  GOP definitely should be embarrassed about "America's First Dictator", Abe "Habeas Corpus" Lincoln.
Posted by: Clem || 06/14/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ I'm sure I don't see it that way. But I'm an asshole and a shitposter. Glenn said so.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#17  What would make you happy, Clem? The return of slavery or the deportation of all blacks. Don't be shy. Tell us what you think.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#18  This thread has gotten ugly. I should have left sooner but I'm leaving now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#19  /\ You're a little late for that.
Posted by: Clem || 06/14/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#20  #5 I thought they're permanently wet - pissing against the wind, etc...?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#21  Hey, G they hate us both. I've told you before I consider you my friend even when I disagree with you. More so now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#22  😃
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#23  There is a lot off ugly Ace of Spades commentary going on here today, It needs to stop.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/14/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#24  What P2K said in #10.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/14/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#25  All right, you lot, cut out the flame war nonsense. Or one of our very able members will translate my thoughts into language that will make it exceedingly clear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2020 16:00 Comments || Top||

#26  Hey, today's Trump's birthday
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||

#27  And Flag Day.
Posted by: charger || 06/14/2020 17:07 Comments || Top||

#28  And my 51st wedding anniversary.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/14/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#29  ^Congratulations - mine lasted 7.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/14/2020 17:41 Comments || Top||

#30  #25 - TW said Knock it the fuck off...or at least try and be subtle and clever
Posted by: Frank G || 06/14/2020 17:48 Comments || Top||

#31  Hope it happens before October 10 when the new Chevies come out...

Isn't that kind of insensitive to Frank?
Posted by: gorb || 06/14/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||

#32  Nahhhh... Ima bout ready for a new F-150, but Chevy's and Dodge's, and Toyota's?

I've mellowed
Posted by: Frank G || 06/14/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||

#33  Frank ~ Perhaps we could go in together on a package F-150 purchase. At 137,000 nearly trouble free miles, I am in need as well. I owe it to myself, and Ford Motor Co.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/14/2020 20:44 Comments || Top||

#34  230,000 myself *knocks wood* but replaced that crappy 2004 tranny (machine, you sick...)
Posted by: Frank G || 06/14/2020 21:56 Comments || Top||

#35  I wonder how many people have ever heard of Juneteenth before now?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/14/2020 21:58 Comments || Top||

#36  Not I...never heard of it.
Posted by: Clem || 06/14/2020 22:53 Comments || Top||

#37  Of course, growing up in a relatively "diverse" environment, I'd never, ever heard of Kwanza, either.
Posted by: Clem || 06/14/2020 22:58 Comments || Top||

#38  Thank you for translating, Frank G.

Juneteenth has been a big festival in Cincinnati for over thirty years, though this year they are celebrating virtually in view of coronavirus concerns — all the June and July festivals were cancelled a month or so ago, just in case.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2020 23:13 Comments || Top||



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