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A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
Via Daily Dharma: Standing as the Observer
We don’t have to build and rebuild a “me” on the passing content of the body-mind. Instead, we can stand as the observer.
Teah Strozer, “RAIN”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
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Via Daily Dharma: Target Your Resistance
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Via White Crane Institute // Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day becomes a Federal holiday
2021 - JUNETEENTH, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day becomes a Federal holiday; Winston Churchill famously quipped that “America always does the right thing...after it tries everything else. Juneteenth is
an American holiday that celebrates our finally getting this part
right. It commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition
of slavery in the state of Texas, and more generally the emancipation of
enslaved African-Americans throughout the former Confederacy of the
southern United States. Its name is a portmanteau of "June" and
"nineteenth", the date of its celebration. Juneteenth
is only recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in
forty-five states, and primarily in local celebrations. Traditions
include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing
traditional songs such as "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every
Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American writers
such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations may include rodeos,
street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical
reenactments, and Miss Juneteenth contests. The Macogos descendants of
Black Seminoles of Coahulla, Mexico also celebrate the Juneteenth. In
1996 the first legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day"
was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.J. Res. 195,
sponsored by Barbara Rose Collins (D-MI). In 1997 Congress recognized
the day through Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution
56. In 2013 the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution 175, acknowledging
Lula Briggs Galloway (late president of the National Association of
Juneteenth Lineage) who "successfully worked to bring national
recognition to Juneteenth Independence Day", and the continued
leadership of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. In 2018
Apple added Juneteenth to its calendars in iOS under official US
holidays. On June 15, 2021, the Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, establishing
Juneteenth as a federal holiday; it subsequently passed through
the House of Representatives by a 415–14 vote on June 16. President Joe Biden signed the bill on
June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday
and the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday
since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983. | ||
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