Thanks for noticing the original text of Granger. I lot of holidays might start with some perspective on how the white government acted, but I take my of Juneteenth from the freed black Americans in Galveston, a city gutted and destroyed by the war. The white government made his orders and the Texas government made their new laws for black Americas. But the freed black Americans made their own celebration and two churches made their own celebration and gathered together then for years afterwards in the ruins of city made my warring whites. They made their own holiday and went on celebrating from years afterwards. They didn’t let the officialdom of either side tell them the meaning of freedom but embedded it with their own meaning. We need to state remembering more what the original freed people did who came together that really started the holiday and stop impressing the meaning and orders from the other side to see who really put the celebration in the day by coming together a a community and embracing each other, feeding each other through their churches in the wreckage of what white warfare rendered. I give my hat off to them on that day and the years after all the black Texas-Americans who kept on celebrating year after year, not needing some proclamation from a president to they’ll them what they can do and how to celebrate.