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The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. - Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

And it is that last bit, systemic incarceration and often for profit, that happens to be the subject of the powerful Netflix documentary
, 13th, that in the wake of the world protests against police brutality, police misconduct, and the rhetoric of Donald Trump his cohorts and constituency, has gained the film renewed interest for the timeliness of its narrative.

Trump has proclaimed that Juneteenth is popular BECAUSE of him. Today, on Juneteenth 2020, a look at WHY that may be correct, in ways HE DIDN'T THINK:

Trump: "In the good ol' days....



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13TH, full feature, available on Netflix, and on Youtube.

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The holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, is usually celebrated with parades and festivals but became a day of protest this year in the wake of demonstrations set off by George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police.

In addition to traditional cookouts and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation — the Civil War-era order that declared all enslaved people free in Confederate territory — Americans of all backgrounds were marching, holding sit-ins or taking part in car caravan protests.

Thousands gathered at a religious rally in Atlanta. Hundreds marched from St. Louis' Old Courthouse... protesters and revelers held signs in Dallas, danced to a marching band in Chicago and registered people to vote in Detroit.

Events marking Juneteenth were planned in every major American city Friday, although some were being held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Cranes came to a standstill as longshoremen in more than two dozen West Coast ports stopped work to mark Juneteenth. In California's Port of Oakland, political activist and former Black Panther Party member Angela Davis thanked the workers for shutting down on “the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom.”


In Nashville, Tennessee, about two dozen Black men, most wearing suits, stood arm in arm in front of the city’s criminal courts. Behind them was a statue of Adolpho Birch, the first African American to serve as chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

“If you were uncomfortable standing out here in a suit, imagine how you would feel with a knee to your neck,” said Phillip McGee, one of the demonstrators, referring to Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes.


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Senators on Friday announced legislation to make Juneteenth, a widely observed holiday that marks the federal order to free slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, a national holiday.

Also known as Emancipation Day, Black Independence Day or Jubilee Day, Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery after the Civil War, although President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had legally accomplished that within the Confederacy more than two years earlier.

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.

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I take some exception to the need for the date, but I question the citizens of this republic. I watched a black fellow courteously remind a white guy of his own English origin and that he was thus not capable of being near-enough American to feel outrage. Sorry, but that is an essential misunderstanding of becoming or being an American. Defund the police, realize privilege, water the bloody tree of patriotism. Just don’t piss on that tree to appear virtuous.
 

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For the slave states that did not succeed from the Union, the 13th amendment took effect in all states and territories on December 6, 1965.

On December 6, 11865, the 27th state Georgia voted to ratify the 13th amendment and it became the law of the land on that day.

Juneteenth Day is the day that the slaves were emancipated per Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation given January 1, 1863. in the Western Confederacy or lands west of the Mississippi River which were parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and the Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma when federal troops landed in Galveston, TX and made the proclamation.

There were still some slaves in the some of the border states until December 6, 1965, seven months after Lee and Grant ended the Civil War.