REPACKAGING 'SEGREGATION'

What did Candace Owens say on Twitter about Juneteenth?

MANY black Americans rejoiced when President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday - but conservative commentator Candace Owens called the declaration "lame."

Juneteenth commemorates , when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas.

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criticized the formation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday in a series of tweets on June 17.

Owens wrote.

"Democrats really need to stop trying to repackage segregation.

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"Stop surrendering to the left because you are afraid of being called a racist.

"America is building statues of George Floyd but tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. God help us all."

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since Martin Luther King Jr Day was created in 1983.

One of the federal holidays, Inauguration Day, happens every four years.

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“I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another," Biden said.

 

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