[Ads-l] Juneteenth

[Jonathan Lighter]

FakeNews (TM):

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-brags-he-made-junteenth-very-famous-despite-learning-about-it-just-last-week-171048516.html


JL

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Peter has done a fine job at his blog tracing the development of the
> celebration.
>
> One-year antedating of the word:
>
> 1890 Galveston Daily News (May 22) 7:  The Beaumont Recorder, colored
> man's paper, says: ...
>
>     For Galveston to send abroad for orators for its coming 'Juneteenth'
> is like carrying coal [sic] to Newcastle.
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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