It's a good day to,
you know, to celebrate a boogity
Washington in a
hell of a good day and barbecue and
honest
and all that stuff is the history of
black Americans.
It was just a few miles from this
Limestone County park in 1865
that black slaves were read the
Emancipation Proclamation.
It was a proclamation made in the
interest of human rights.
But the battle isn't over.
The state legislature in the state
of Texas recently had to
decide whether or not
a judge or justice of the peace in Fort
Worth could perform marriages for
black and white people who wanted to be
married. And this, of course, is an
insult to human rights.
But the message was not one of
bitterness. Rather, it was to be
conscious of the frustrations and mindful
that the future doesn't present false
hopes.
We feel that the young people,
especially those of the black community,
should always remember,
but in remembering should make progress.
This is one of the larger Juneteenth
celebrations in Texas.
The crowd was down a little this year,
but no one blames the deaths here two
years ago.
Instead, the call was to work for the
future with an eye on the past.
Klemp on Channel 5 Action News like Mihail.