Comments on: Escambia County Offices Closed Monday For Juneteenth; Century Open

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:00:02 +0000

@derek

The American Civil War was very much about slavery.

How about some examples of your churches, businesses, or ability to earn a living being shut down by federal agencies?

How has your life been ruined by a politician?

By: Ol' Skinny

Ol' Skinny — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:37:59 +0000

derek @ I was following your comments (not necessarily agreeing) and then I got to your last sentence.

“Now that YOU allowed the politicians to ruin OUR lives ….” Derek are you old enough to vote? It’s democracy, we vote, we don’t always get our way. If everything went “my” way then we would call this the United States of Ol’ Skinny.

So grateful to live in a country where we recognize that what some of our forefathers did was not the right thing to do when it came to buying humans and forcing them to do our hard labor. As a proud southerner I
will never see anything right in the way Africans were treated. Not in my eyes and surely not in Gods eyes.

By: derek

derek — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:21:50 +0000

it’s a very obscure thing that happened in a tiny little town. Just like you were told we had a civil war over slavery, it was just simply not true. Border states and the north had slaves leading up to and during the civil war. Fifteen and sixteen year old kids were not fighting for slavery, they were fighting for freedom. Freedom from federal control. Just like when a federsl agency shut down our businesses, churches and our ability to earn a living. Now that you allowed the politicians to ruin our lives there is no limits as to what they may do.

By: Kimberly Dukes

Kimberly Dukes — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:11:21 +0000

Because it stated as local holiday in Texas the black community started teaching about and it became large and large. Therefore it became a Federal because it was brought to a Washington DC as a bill and signed. Florida is a whole other issue

By: emom

emom — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:28:44 +0000

If you ever watch “Finding Your Roots” on PBS, you’ll learn about so many things never covered in school “back in the day”. It’s a wonderful show. I had never heard about Black Wall Street until it was talked about on this program.

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:02:01 +0000

@Ol’ Skinny
I also never learned about this event in school. All we ever heard was that “Lincoln freed the slaves”.

It’s sad that some places (Texas) waited 2 and a half years before actually following the new law.

By: William Reynolds

William Reynolds — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:06:31 +0000

“Ok … I will start the conversation…. How is it that I spent 12 years in the Escambia County School system and never once heard anything about Juneteeth?”

It was declared a federal holiday for the first time last year on June 17, 2021, just two days before the holiday (June 19, each year).

It is not yet adopted as a. state holiday in Florida.

By: Ol' Skinny

Ol' Skinny — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:32:47 +0000

Ok … I will start the conversation…. How is it that I spent 12 years in the Escambia County School system and never once heard anything about Juneteeth? I am old granted (Class of 1977), this information never really come to the forefront of my life until just a few years ago.