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9/11tv President Biden Signs Juneteenth Federal Holiday Bill CSPAN June 19, 2025 8:14am-8:47am EDT
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so throughout history juneteenth has been known by many names, jubilee day, freedom day, liberation day. emancipation day. and today, a national holiday. [applause] and looking out across this room i see the advocates any activist and the leaders who have been calling for this day for so long including the one and only. [applause]
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[laughter] and very special recognition from the president of the united states. [laughter] and members of congress and member of the congressional black caucus members of the united states senate to pass the bill unanimously. [applause] all of them collectively to deliver this bill to the president's desk and i thank you all. we thank you all. thank you all. we established a national holiday it makes an important statement. national holidays or something important.
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where we as a nation have decided to stop and take stock. enter knowledge or history when we establish juneteenth as the newest national holiday, let us be clear what happened on june 19th 1865. because that day was not the end of slavery in america. yes, on that day the enslaved people of galveston texas learned they were free to half years early the emancipation proclamation and the slavery and the confederacy. think about that. for more than two years in slave people of texas were kept in servitude for two years intentionally kept from
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the freedom for more than two years. and then on that summer day 156 years ago the enslaved people of texas they learn the news that they were free and they claim their freedom. indeed it was an important day. [applause] and remember is not the end of slavery in america. the truth is it would be six more months before the 13th amendment was ratified and enslaved people were free. so as we commemorate the history of juneteenth just as we did with the torso race
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massacre we must learn from our history and teacher children our history because it is part of our history as a nation as part of american history. we are gathered here in the house built by enslaved people. footsteps away from where president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. and we are here to witness president joe biden establish juneteenth as a national holiday. we have come far and far to go but today is a day of celebration. not only a day of pride but also a day to reaffirm and we
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dedicate to action and with that i say happy juneteenth and with that i introduce the president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you madame vice president. 156 years ago. 156 years do 19, 1865, arriving in galveston texas to enforce emancipation proclamation to free the last enslaved americans of texas from bondage. and has become known as
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juneteenth we can and do her for a night that joy come in the morning. juneteenth marks a long hard night of slave subjugation. this is a day that is profound weight and power. the day in which the moral stain took a toll slavery took on the country and continues to. it would have long called america's original sin. at the same time i remember the extraordinary capacity to heal and help with a better
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version of ourselves to make a better version of ourselves. today we make june 19th what it must be a national holiday in the vice president noted a holiday to join the others of our national celebrations and independence servicemen and women who served and died in their defense i and grateful to members of congress here today on the congressional black caucus i'm especially pleased to show the nation to come together to commemorate this day with the overwhelming
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bipartisan support help this is a beginning and a change of the way we deal with one another we are blessed to mark the day. [applause] i have the honor of meeting her nevada more than a year ago she told me she loved me and i believe that. [laughter] you are incredible. daughter of texas a grandmother the movement of the federal holiday and she is 49 years old excuse me 94 years old. you are an incredible woman. you really are. as a child growing up in texas
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she and her family would celebrate juneteenth 1939 at 12 years old a white mob torched her family home. with such hate never stopped or and over the course of decades she has made it her mission to see that this day came to make it possible i ask once again if we all standing give her a warm welcome. [applause]
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>> as a point of personal privilege as i was walking down i regret that my grandchildren are not here because this is a really important moment in our history. all americans can feel the power of the standard from our history and the distance we have to travel. with a 100 anniversary of the tolls of race massacre don't ignore the most painful moments.
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they embrace them. great nations and then to grow stronger. is not just enough to commemorate after all the enslaved black americans with the promise of equality. and then to continue to the promise. the vice president and i am the entire administration are committed to doing just that.
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so finally addressing that a black american family and a similar area. that's why we committed to increasing black homeownership that's why it's possible for more black entrepreneurs to have access to capital to get their fair share of federal contracts. that's why we are working to gave each and every child three and four years of age not daycare in a school. not daycare. [applause] and then in that innovation
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and that colleges and universities to the hcv you graduates tempted paying jobs for industries of the future. the promise of the quality would not be fulfilled until it becomes real mean streets and neighborhoods. our healthcare system to ensure that equity against the pandemic and the water that comes out of our faucets in the air that we breathe in our communities and our justice system to fulfill the promise of america for all people. it's not going to be fulfilled so long as the sacred right to vote remains under attack.
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that is the meaning of juneteenth. that's what it's about. so let's make this very juneteenth tomorrow the first nation our celebrate will be altogether as one nation juneteenth of action on many fronts and across the country this week weighing
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door-to-door to encourage vaccinations we stuff more work to do to close the racial gap the vaccination rates. today also remarks the sixth anniversary at the mother and manual church in charleston south carolina. the killer motivated by hate, intending to start a race war in south carolina. drew his victims in bible study and took their lives in a house of worship. it's a reminder because hate on the hides it doesn't go away fully put. and when you breathe oxygen under that rock it comes out. that's we must understand what juneteenth represents now in the commemoration of slavery
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it doesn't just celebrate the past and moment i will sign in july federal holiday. i've only been president several months i think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors i will have as president. i didn't do it but you did it. democrats and republicans but it is an enormous honor. thank you for what you have done. by the way is difficult most of us in the congress and senate i would go down to the other and of the hall first to
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think your staff who do all the hard work. [laughter] [applause] they are at the other end but i think them as well. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you.
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[inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen please remain seated is a president and vice president depart. thank you
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>> ladies and gentlemen please we mean seated by the president and the vice president depart. thank you.
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look at the juneteenth holiday. and sorry to do that you have a thank you. welcome back to the
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