Juneteenth is a powerful reminder that the Democrats lost their war for slavery.

Yes, the glorious news of Republican President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation finally made its two-year trek to the great state of Texas. On June 19, 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 and proclaimed, in part: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

WHO IS JUNETEENTH FOR?

This freedom was made possible by whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics who fought for the Union. (Of course, all these groups also fought for the failed Confederacy.) Juneteenth doesn’t belong to one particular group. It belongs to every American. The abolition of slavery began the dismantling of destructive and artificial color barriers. It would take over a century for further attacks on human dignity in the form of “black codes” and Jim Crow laws to be burned on the trash heap of Democratic Party history. Anti-miscegenation laws, which made marriages like mine illegal (white wife, brown husband), were also used to prevent “transracial” adoptions (like the multi-color family of fifteen I grew up in).

Scientific racism malevolently divided the world into different “races”, and I reject it. We’re one human race. I know that’s triggering to the DEI crowd. I write about this in my brand-new book and documentary, "Should Have Been Aborted." (Watch the documentary livestreamed on the Radiance Foundation’s Facebook page on Juneteenth at 7 P.M ET.)

Slavery was not just a tool of “white........

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