CSN Founder’s Focus - Reflecting on Juneteenth

6/19/2025

Jun 19, 2025

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CSN Founder’s Focus - Reflecting on Juneteenth - 6/19/2025

From the Founder…

Today, the Founder’s Focus is on an important day in American history that has become quite controversial in more recent years as the attacks upon the foundations of the United States. A holiday such as this, in which the intent and purpose has been contorted and corrupted, stands to be cleansed of the intent to use it to divide people and the ideological and political stench that has been attached to it. However, without people understanding the context in which the holiday was created it is difficult to comprehend. The actions of distortion and the reactions and push back from the various political factions over this humble holiday is enough to cause most sane and rational people to ignore it or diminish its value within the Providence of Freedom itself.

Though it is a holiday more important for Black History, it affects all Americans whether people understand or not. Citizen Voice has covered issues on the history of Blacks in America in our previous editions, and the February 2025 edition of theCSN newsletter gave more contemporary context to the bigger picture: CSN - Sunday LightWing Messages - Time for Americans to Take A Strong Stand for Goodness and Righteousness [related to messages from MLK, Jr.] Based on that historical context, this edition of the Founder’s Focus features an article that I wrote in 2021 during COVID about Juneteenth, a holiday most Americans only encountered recently. But, it is a holiday that should be focused on Freedom and unity – not divisiveness or reactionary racism.

Sadly, a majority of Americans have never heard of Juneteenth, but it is a legitimate holiday that is essentially a celebration of freedom. It is also known as Emancipation Day, or Freedom Day. When many first hear of Juneteenth, they often think there is a mistake with the wording and they become not only curious about the holiday, but also about the word that depicts the holiday.

The name of Juneteenth is what is known as a portmanteau or a combination of two or more words comprising an entirely new word with a blended meaning of the words involved. A simple example would be the word “smog” which was created by joining smoke and fog. Juneteenth is the portmanteau of June and nineteenth; a single word which signifies a special day in the history of the United States.

Today’s edition gives a better understanding of Juneteenth without all the Progressive-revisionist propaganda and the race-based politicization of the holiday. For those who are older and wiser in their ways, it has been quite noticeable that the Left or Progressives or Socialists truly tend to bend or contort words, phrases, and historical themes to their advantage in the effort to sell their ideological viewpoints to an innocent public for mass consumption. This does work because of the constant brainwashing tactics of the mainstream media and corporate social media giants.

Unfortunately, those who are challenged by history, or who suffer serious vacancies in their memories regarding the history of the nation, are easy prey for the revisionists re-writing the historical record from their own imaginations. In this edition, we are hoping to rectify the idea, longing and quest for Freedom!

The Holiday of Juneteenth Came at Great Cost to America

By Dennis Jamison - 6/17/2021

On Saturday [in 2021], many Americans will take part in festivities for celebrations of freedom known as “Juneteenth,” also known as “Emancipation Day” or “Freedom Day.” It is definitely a holiday that deserves a more substantial place in America’s history, as it has been limited in its scope of inclusiveness for all American citizens who love freedom. It has traditionally been a celebration for Black Americans or those who were relatively in association with multi-cultural or racially mixed communities - where there were no real or artificial barriers between people. But, there had to be some awareness of the history behind the celebration.

Although known primarily as a day of celebration for the emancipation of the slaves, it should be considered a day to celebrate everyone’s freedom – not just black Americans, but for all Americans. Yet this day has been marred in the past years by incredible acts of evil that temper the actual celebrations of Freedom Day for all people. Especially, with the advent of Black Lives Matter militants, the 1619 Project, and Critical Race Theory now being thrust into the culture by those with less than altruistic motives, there is an evil of racism being fomented in the nation that has not existed since the days of the old Confederate States of America, or the regional autocracies of the Democrats of the “Solid South.”

The flames of racial tension are being fanned by those in the nation who go by the name of being Americans, but they are not truly individuals who share the values of the nation as it was established according to the Judeo-Christian heritage. Those flames of racial tension were fanned furiously in 2020 - despite government lockdowns and supported by the same political party that manifested racist instigated hatred and real ‘systemic racism’ as it was institutionalized in the Deep South. The “Democratic” Party seems to have cornered the market on artificially manifested divisiveness based on race.

Though a bit ironic, it is ingenious in implementation when the outcome of “divide and conquer” is the bottom line. Racism, regardless of whether it is fomented by white racist masters controlling slaves through Ku Klux Klan terror, or instigated by white masters controlling Blacks’ racism against others through intimidation via Black Lives militant “Brown Shirts.” Where would one imagine that Mussolini or Hitler got the idea of having a cadre of militants to intimidate and terrorize regular citizens as well as marginalized and targeted populations?

Evil does not just originate in a vacuum - it is duplicated and perfected by evil people -- it multiplies in such ways. Before the formal advent of the Klan, preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, there were hit squads of terrorists and various assassins that came up from out of the Deep South to the northern states to intimidate, terrorize, and kill known abolitionists. But, this evil originated from wealthy powerful slave-owning plantation owners who ran their states and regions modeled after the old lords of “fiefdoms” within a feudal society. It existed in North America under English Colonial rule for over 160 years before the United States of America was born. And then it took another generation to get to the point where the people of the United States had to decide whether or not they were going to truly uphold the noble ideals of the Declaration of Independence, or just pretend they believed in the God-given inalienable rights for all people. However, it was truly more than just belief in the self-evident truths of the Declaration. The world required proof.

Proof of Americans’ adherence to the sacred truths came in the form of “a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated [conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal] can long endure.” As the nation was being ripped apart through the Civil War, in November of 1863, Abraham Lincoln’s carefully chosen words in the Gettysburg Address reveal that he was not entirely certain that the Union would survive. Such words echo down through our history from this terrible time. However, it was Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that set in motion a series of practical measures that could enable the emancipation of an entire population of people. Without the Union victory in this horrible war, slavery would have become entrenched even more - there would have never been a Juneteenth celebration.

In point of fact, Juneteenth was the outcome of the practical manifestation of the military force of the victorious Union Army. Juneteenth was originally celebrated in Galveston, Texas after the announcement of Union Army “General Order No. 3” in June of 1865. The military order was a military mandate. The southern Democrats had preferred to fight to hold onto their “rights” to own other human beings. There was no intent to allow the slaves to be freed. Democrat slave owners had to be forced by the Union Army to emancipate their slaves. Tragically, President Lincoln was murdered in April, less than a week after the Civil War ended, so any basis for his plans for freeing the slaves was transferred to the Union Army.

Perhaps even more tragic was that over 620,000 men and boys died during the American Civil War. Americans just celebrated Memorial Day at the end of May, a holiday born from the ashes and loss during the Civil War. This Sunday, Americans celebrate Father’s Day, but consider this: around 400,000 boys and men of the Union died so that freedom could be extended to slaves. Among those who gave their lives for that freedom, there were so many fathers and would be fathers whose lives were cut short because the evil of slavery had to be confronted and rectified. Their blood should wipe away the sins of those who created a system of government that did exert “White privilege” over a Black population. Genuine victory over slavery, which was real systemic racism in practice, came at a great cost and the crimes of the Democrat political system under the Confederates could only be ended through the blood of those who were willing to die for the freedom of others.

Yet, even that blood, which cries out from the ground, from those who sacrificed their lives was not even enough to stop former slave owners from implementing a system of tyranny over the Deep South. It wasn’t until Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted leadership in the Civil Rights Movement did the foundations of that tyranny begin to crumble. In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, he stated: “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given up by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed…” Yet, his solution was not hatred; it was not violent rioting and senseless destruction. One of King’s famous admonitions expresses a great deal: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

This is why Juneteenth should continue to be celebrated as Freedom Day for people of all races because a victory over hatred and tyranny should always be celebrated. But, Juneteenth linked to insane “Progressive” calls for monetary compensation from the members of a white population who were never slave owners, to be awarded to the members of a black population who were never slaves, does not lead to healing old wounds. Juneteenth should be celebrated because “freedom for all” truly matters, and it is about time all American citizens declare their freedom from being held prisoners to a distant past. Self-identify with being free because chains were broken by the blood of patriots who gave their lives for freedom.