President Trump issues message on Juneteenth

Washington, June 19

President Donald Trump issued a presidential message on Juneteenth by which he famous “the unimaginable injustice of slavery and the incomparable joy that must have attended emancipation.” 

“It is both a remembrance of a blight on our history and a celebration of our Nation’s unsurpassed ability to triumph over darkness.”           

Trump’s message: “On this day 155 years ago, African Americans in Texas first heard the righteous and long-overdue words of General Order Number 3: “All slaves are free.”              

These phrases confirmed for still-enslaved individuals in Texas that the Union Army would implement and defend their freedom, introduced practically three years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln in his Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth reminds us of each the unimaginable injustice of slavery and the incomparable pleasure that will need to have attended emancipation. It is each a remembrance of a blight on our historical past and a celebration of our Nation’s unsurpassed capability to overcome darkness.

That capability is rooted within the elementary goodness of America—within the truths upon which we, as a Nation, declared an finish to our standing as the topics of a monarch and emerged as a free and unbiased individuals: that each one males are created equal by the hand of God, endowed by our Creator with the suitable to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

“These words form the heart of what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called the “promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.”            

The celebration of Juneteenth marks an vital milestone within the hard-fought journey to make good on that promise for all Americans.

This Juneteenth, we commit, as one Nation, to reside true to our highest beliefs and to construct at all times towards a freer, stronger nation that values the dignity and boundless potential of all Americans.” AP