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The
Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a
federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature, which has now done.

Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free. Confederate
soldiers surrendered in April 1865, but word didn't reach the last enslaved Black people until June 19, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to Galveston, Texas. That was also about two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the Southern states.

"Making Juneteenth a federal holiday is a major step forward to recognize the wrongs of the past," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "But we must continue to work to ensure equal justice and fulfill the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation and our Constitution."
In honor of Juneteenth, 19 quotes about freedom speak to the importance of remembering the past in order to push for a more equitable future.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison, "Beloved"

Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future, and the day when we
renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom.
— Angela Davis
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
— Harriet Tubman

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.
— Fannie Lou Hamer

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
— Malcolm X

I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
— Frederick Douglass

Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
— Coretta Scott King

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
— Kwame Nkrumah

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
— Desmond Tutu
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
— Harriet Tubman

"If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again." – Malcolm X.

"My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose… Africa… but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race… in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world." – Josephine Baker, legendary entertainer and activist.

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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." – Abraham Lincoln.

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins." – John Quincy Adams.

"…the 19th of June wasn't the exact day the Negro was freed. But that's the day they told them that they was free… And my daddy told me that they whooped and hollered and bored holes in trees with augers and stopped it up with [gun] powder and light and that would be their blast for the celebration." – Haye Turner, a former slave.

"Every year we must remind successive generations that this event triggered a series of events that one by one defines the challenges and responsibilities of successive generations. That's why we need this holiday." – Texas Rep. Al Edwards.

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

Take Your Kids Out Of School

By Dennis Prager

The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country's major institutions?

There is an answer.

The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America – against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the military – is to take their children out of America's schools.

Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the vast majority of America's elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America and of America's values. Sending your child(ren) to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values – but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools' guns hold four or five bullets.

Given that this is well-known, why do any non-left – meaning, liberal or conservative – parents send their children to an American school?

One reason is they are in denial. Many parents do not want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don't really believe school(s) will ruin their child, let alone their child's relationship with them.

These parents should speak to any of the millions – yes, millions – of Americans whose children have contempt for America, for free speech and for their parents as a result of attending an American college or even high school. I meet such people at every speech I give, and I speak to them regularly on my radio show. Ask these parents, if they could redo their lives, whether they would keep their child in school.

A second reason is they feel they have no choice. If they remove their child from the local public or private school (most private schools are just as committed to anti-American indoctrination over education as public schools), what will they do with their child? They often cannot find a local school that does not harm their child. They cannot necessarily even rely on Christian or Jewish schools. Most of them are as "woke" as most secular schools. And if they do find a school that teaches rather than poisons, they may not be able to afford the tuition.

The only other option, then, is to home-school one's child. The problem is that many parents assume this is essentially impossible. For one thing, they assume that one of the parents would have to leave his or her work, which would mean a serious reduction in the family's income. In addition, home-schooling strikes most people as simply too daunting a task, even if they could afford to take it on.

Neither fear is entirely justified. It is true that, at least at the outset, a working parent may have to cut back from full-time work, and it is true that no matter what the family's financial condition, there are challenges to taking one's children out of school and home-schooling them.

But given the low intellectual state of most American schools, the damage they do to young children's innocence and the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Western indoctrination in most schools, if you are a parent of school-age children, what is your choice?

Other than a) finding a good school that b) you can afford, you have no other choice. You are fooling yourself if you think the odds are that after attending American schools from kindergarten through college (not to mention through graduate school), your child will turn out well-educated, intellectually alive, rational, kind, happy, well-adjusted, grateful to be American and respectful of you and your values.

While there are some wonderful young Americans who recently attended American schools, and there are some lost souls who were home-schooled, American schools are largely producing the following:

Poorly educated students. Ask your college son or daughter to diagram a sentence; identify Joseph Stalin, "The Gulag Archipelago" or the Soviet Union; name the branches of the American government; identify – or just spell – Ludwig van Beethoven; date the Civil War; identify the Holocaust; and name which sentence is correct: "He gave the book to my friend and me" or, "He gave the book to my friend and I."

Angry young people. Why wouldn't they be? First, they graduate college with a huge load of debt, having received almost nothing useful for their money. Second, if they are anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male, they have been taught to regard themselves as victims of oppression. Third, their future is so bleak they may not even have one: They are threatened with extinction by climate change.

The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the "educational" system that is actively, deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say "teachers unions." If they don't, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the left's sick and dystopian experiment.

Biden's War on Jerusalem

By Daniel Greenfield

A decade ago, Vice President Biden paid a visit to Jerusalem.

Like any trip by an emissary of the Obama administration, it wasn't a goodwill tour, but a combination of a provocation and a shakedown. While Biden was in Israel, two construction projects received partial approval in a multi-stage process from the City of Jerusalem.

Biden responded by staying up in his hotel room and refusing to come down for an hour.

When he did come down, he hugged Netanyahu and assured him, "Just remember that I am your best f____ friend here."

Biden's definition of friendship is the backstabbing kind because after that he and the entire Obama administration began attacking Israel over a decision made by a local urban agency.

"It was not only an insult to Biden, but an insult to the United States," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ranted. Then she spent two hours yelling at Netanyahu over the phone.

"I was often the 'designated yeller,'" Hillary would later brag about her relationship with Israel.

"There was an affront, it was an insult," David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser falsely claimed.

The media launched a disinformation campaign falsely claiming that Prime Minister Netanyahu had deliberately caused a Jerusalem urban planning committee to reach a decision on housing in two areas that until then no one had even been paying much attention to.

One of those housing projects was going up in the Shimon HaTzadik (Simon the Righteous) neighborhood named after the last true high priest who had dissuaded Alexander the Great from putting up an idol in the Temple.

The Jewish neighborhood had been built in the 19th century. In 1936, Muslim rioters drove out the community while shouting, "Allahu Akbar" and "Ibtach Al Yahood" or "Kill the Jews".

This was the first modern Muslim attempted genocide of the indigenous Jewish population of Israel. A British truck driver recollected a massacre in Tiberias in which "the bodies of children, apparently set alight with gasoline in a nursery, were still smoldering" and "the naked bodies of the women exposed the evidence that the knives had been used in the most ghastly fashion."

In 1947, the Muslims came for the Jews of the neighborhood again and they fought back with the few weapons they had. Then British forces came along and disarmed the Jews to "keep the peace". The Jewish population fled again. Jordan's Arab Legion, under British officers, seized half of Jerusalem, and ethnically cleansed its Jewish population Some of the homes in Shimon HaTzadik (referred to by Muslims as Sheikh Jarrah after one of Saladin's colonizing invaders) were used by the UNRWA to settle Muslims in violation of international law.

The other housing project in Jerusalem in Ramat Shlomo was set to be built on uninhabited land that not even the PLO was claiming as its own.

This was what Biden, Hillary, the Obama administration and the media were howling about.

Obama used fake outrage over Jews living in Jerusalem to engineer the beginning of the Democrat Party's break with Israel. Biden played a key role in staging an international incident to manufacture a narrative in which Israel was somehow provoking a conflict with Obama.

11 years later, Biden is so short of ideas that he went right back to the same neighborhood.

The Muslim squatters planted by UNRWA in Jewish homes have refused to pay rent to their owners or leave. After two generations of court cases, Israel's Supreme Court was moving to issue a final decision. The Islamic terrorists of the PLO and Hamas used this as a pretext for a murderous campaign against Israel. And everyone from Biden on down has warned Israel against actually following the law and allowing the Jewish owners to reclaim the property.

Biden funded Iran, backed the terrorists inside Israel, and then warned the Jewish State against "provoking" them by allowing Jews to take part in a parade or allowing courts to follow the law.

On May 10th, well before the fighting began, Biden's people ordered Israel not to evict any of the Muslim squatters and to cancel the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations. Netanyahu tried to appease Biden by rerouting the parade and asked the Supreme Court to postpone a decision.

Despite these efforts at appeasement, the Islamic violence escalated anyway. But that hasn't stopped the Biden administration and its media allies from blaming Israel anyway.

That's how this game of diplomatic Catch 22 with Israel always works.

The Supreme Court, which is independent and doesn't answer to either Biden or Netanyahu, refused to halt the eviction case. That hasn't stopped the Biden administration from continuing to make illegal demands that another nation's supreme court should refuse to follow the law.

But Biden is also moving to open a consulate for the 'Palestinians' in Jerusalem to counteract the embassy that President Trump moved to Jerusalem. The consulate would violate Israeli sovereignty and would be illegal under United States law. Neither bothers Biden.

There's also no reason to set up a consulate to the terrorists in Jerusalem except to violate Israeli sovereignty over the city and stake a claim to the Jewish city for Hamas and the PLO.

The Palestinian Authority operates out of Ramallah. The Russians and Chinese have their diplomatic missions in Ramallah. That's not out of sensitivity to Israel, just common sense.

Biden wants to set up a consulate to the PA miles away from the terror state regime that he wants to have close diplomatic relations with. State Department personnel told the media that during the war they thought they were "flying blind" without a consulate. But a consulate in Jerusalem puts them no closer to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority's government than the embassy they already have in Jerusalem does. If Biden wants a consulate close to Abbas, he could erect one in Ramallah. Otherwise the consulate could operate out of the embassy.

Secretary of State Blinken claims that Biden wants a consulate in Jerusalem "to be able to more effectively engage not just the Palestinian Authority, but Palestinians from different walks of life, the NGO community, the business community, and others."

Countries don't have diplomatic relations with NGOs and businesses, but with countries. France doesn't operate a consulate to Coca Cola or the Sierra Club.

But if Biden and Blinken want to "engage" the non-profit NGOs that are funded by the State Department, the European Union, George Soros, and other anti-Israel billionaires to wage a campaign against Israel, they can just open a consulate in D.C., Brussels, or the Open Society Foundations in Berlin. And the Muslim "business community" of the 600 Hamas millionaires in Gaza, (falsely depicted as an "open air prison" in the media's disinformation campaign) would be best engaged by opening a consulate in Gaza City right next to the AP's offices.

There's no legal or rational reason for Biden to open a "Palestinian" consulate in Jerusalem.

Biden wants a terrorist consulate in Jerusalem for the same reason that every Democrat White House insisted on keeping the US embassy in Tel Aviv 40 miles from the actual location of the Israeli government in Jerusalem. The State Department didn't complain it was "flying blind" through multiple wars by refusing to have close access to the Israeli government.

It was more important to make a point by refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The Soviet Union and European media made a point of referring to Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel's government the way that we would refer to London as shorthand for the British government which was like insisting that the White House is really in Boston.

Deutsche Welle, Germany's state-owned broadcaster, falsely captioned a recent photo of Blinken and Netanyahu meeting in Jerusalem as "Blinken met with Netanyahu in Tel-Aviv".

It's not just Iran that refers to Israel as "the regime in Tel Aviv".

That's the denialist mindset behind Biden's push to open a terror consulate in Jerusalem. Biden's people, especially his pro-terrorist point man Hady Amr are, as the State Department often accused Israel of doing, "creating facts on the ground" for the PLO and Hamas.

And no politician has been more hypocritical and dishonest about Jerusalem than Biden.

In 1990, Biden co-sponsored Senate Concurrent Resolution 106 which condemned "ambiguous statements by the Government of the United States concerning the right of Jews to live in all parts of Jerusalem".

Two decades later, Biden became a key figure in attacking the right of Jews to "live in all parts of Jerusalem".

In 1992, Biden co-sponsored Senate Consecutive Resolution 113 stating that "Jerusalem must remain an undivided city" and in 1995 co-sponsored the Jerusalem Embassy Act declaring that "Jerusalem should remain an undivided city" and "be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel". All the way back in 1984, Biden was saying, "I happen to support this move", but "I think it is the wrong fight to make it this time." And it always went on being the wrong time.

When President Trump called Biden's bluff by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Biden conceded that "I wouldn't reverse it. I wouldn't have done it in the first place."

Biden promised to open a consulate to the "Palestinians" in Jerusalem and he's on it. The proposed consulate has no legitimate government function because it's not in Ramallah.

The only purpose of the consulate is to undermine President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem.

After years of enthusiastic speeches at AIPAC, Biden offered a sonorous video in 2020 warning of a "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza and telling Israel that it needed to stop Jewish "settlements".

Biden threatened Israel that if it didn't keep Jews from living on land claimed by the terrorists, it would "choke off any hope for peace" and undermine support from Democrats.

During his campaign, Biden promised, "I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem".

He's not reopening it to "engage Palestinians", but to counter Israel's claim to Jerusalem. After decades of pretending that he supported recognizing a united Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, Biden is doing everything he can to undermine Israel's presence in Jerusalem.

In 2013, Biden told AIPAC that he was jealous because Obama "gets to be the one to say 'This year in Jerusalem'". In 2021, he's promising, "This year in Jerusalem" to the terrorists.

Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman reunite to present Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992.

Elizabeth Taylor Wins Best Actress: 1967 Oscars

Elizabeth Taylor winning the Oscar® for Best Actress for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" at the 39th Academy Awards® in 1967. Presented by Lee Marvin and accepted by Anne Bancroft. Introduced by Bob Hope.

What's My Line? - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward; Art Linkletter [panel] (Nov 8, 1959)

MYSTERY GUEST: Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward

PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Art Linkletter, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward on their marriage

We have a new Federal Holiday yesterday Juneteenth but Father's Day is today but not a Federal Holiday.

Sunday, June 20, 2021, Father's Day is a holiday of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages.

Father's Day 2021 is not a federal holiday and falls on the third Sunday of June. The date of the Holiday changes each year but always remains on a Sunday.

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