Sen. Cornyn endorsed the vote to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. But he also supports the Texas law just signed by Governor Greg Abbott making it harder to teach about the history of white supremacy and racial hierarchy in America.
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In the 1869 case Texas v. White, the court held that individual states could not unilaterally secede from the Union and that the acts of the insurgent Texas Legislature — even if ratified by a majority of Texans — were “absolutely null.”
If there were any doubt remaining after that, late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set it to rest more than a century later with his response to a letter from a screenwriter in 2006 asking if there is a legal basis for secession.
“The answer is clear,” Scalia wrote. “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, ‘one Nation, INDIVISIBLE”
Native Americans were used as slaves and indentured servants through adoption well into the 20th century.
This is true, and I don’t understand why there’s absolutely, no representation, in Congress or the Senate.
Pigs fly too
@GeminII* Because theres barely any left.
And Native Americans had black slaves themselves who worked together owning land too.
Backstabbers- The O’Jays our elected officials theme song
No doubt
“Those that refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
GQP- deal
@B Taylor So shooting an unarmed trespasser is justified? The same FBI that let Hillary Clinton off the hook for obstructing a criminal investigation into her. No thanks. An insurrection is when armed militants storm the capital trying to take over the government. This was not an insurrection, just another example of the LEFT USING HYPERBOLIC WORDS AS A WEAPON.
@B Taylor The Left always weaponizes words, the same way they did during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings. The Left was actively changing the definition of words in the dictionary; that’s disturbing.
Critical Race Theory isn’t history
Exactly. Now let them tell the History of Anthony Johnson. The Founder of Legalized Slavery which was a Free Black Man. He started it all.
when in histiory did anyone not know history ?????
In Colorado we’ve celebrated Juneteenth for years, 5 Points was known as “the Harlem of the West” for a long time. I’m happy to see it’s a holiday, but election day should be a holiday too…
I lived there for 8 years. Never heard of it until about a year ago.
One step at a time.
This is nothing more than empty symbolism for Native Black Americans!
I hope you don’t call that getting things done in Washington !
…and it only took 155 years since the first confederate memorial day was celebrated Yep, progress. Now, can we get Rand to sign on to an anti-lynching bill, or is it still too problematic?
wow….they create a holiday as a symbolic gesture
what a bunch of hypocritical people
If you noticed another republican??
it is by definition “symbolic”. he is right. teaching it should be ok too though.
teaching what exactly?
what people are against is seeing children being indoctrinated with CRT
yeah… Juneteenth is a holiday but we can’t teach it
ill be honest i never new what Juneteenth was before last year. I had to look it up. weather i forgot i was taught in high school some 30 years ago or i was never taught about it.
It’s a fully schizophrenic party now. How lovely.
Critical race theory is when you teach people about the slavery and the KKK. The more you teach people about slavery and the KKK, the more crt something becomes.
You all realize you’re the mirror version of the Fox news audience right?
is the actual history of America. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it go away. And it shouldn’t. I’m English and as a kid in school we learnt about the slave trade and it’s horrors and hopefully I came out a better person learning this.
*MARJORY TAILER GREEN* at the Haulocost Museum shows exactly WHY they are desperate to keep critical race theory out of schools…
She goes in “Masks are like the holocaust* and comes out “OMG NOTHING is like the holocaust – we must never let this happen again” EDUCATION changes minds and behaviour…
Now let’s make Voting Day a National Holiday….Mr. Cornyn
Have slaves.
Then free the slaves.
Then give yourself a holiday for that. Neat.
black lives 🤡 day
circus theme is there life theme 👍🏼