James Horner, "The Year of Jubilee" from Glory: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Mike Papa Whiskey)
Commentary: It is an unspeakable travesty that amidst anti-racism protests in Boston the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment, men who fought & died to end slavery, was vandalized & defaced with anti-racist slogans. What's next, toppling statues of Frederick Douglass & Harriet Tubman?
Operation AXIOM: Juneteenth
19 June 1865, one hundred fifty-five years ago to the day, the Union Army delivered the news of the Emancipation Proclamation to Texas. All slaves within the Confederacy had been de jure freed by President Lincoln's proclamation of 22 September 1862, effective 1 January 1863, but did not become de facto until the military defeat of the rebels in April 1865. The remoteness of the Texas further delayed the dissemination & implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to ignorant propaganda, "Juneteenth" does not commemorate the end of slavery; that was not achieved throughout the United States 'til the ratification of Amendment XIII to the United States Constitution on 6 December 1865. (Of course, most Americans think Cinco de Mayo mark's Mexico's independence day; so, we are a nation of equal opportunity ignoramuses.) The news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas one hundred fifty-five years ago today, 19 June 1865.
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