Joe Biden has declared a new national holiday in America, Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the US. Biden in his speech emphasized the need for America to reckon with its history, even when that history is shameful.

“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don’t walk away. We come to terms with the mistakes we made. And remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger.” Biden said.

Will Australia become one of those great nations Biden speaks of? When will we truly recognise our shameful past, and come to terms with the wrongs we perpetrated against our indigenous brothers and sisters? When will we be able to afford ourselves a true and meaningful 'National Reconciliation Day' holiday, possibly as a replacement for the anachronistic 'Queen's Birthday' day off.

I will be happy to leave the blubbering and virtue-signaling to Paul. I don't know what makes people like him feel guilty about something they had no hand in. Actually, I doubt that they really feel anything about what went on between people who have been dead for centuries; they just think it makes them 'nice'.

I won't bother going into the fact that we never had slavery here, because they always manage to invent something else just as bad.

We already celebrate the end of slavery in Australia - 26 January.

Up to that time, slavery was rampant in the lands that became Australia, but on that day it was no longer government sanctioned.

It does however have to be acknowledged that it took a long time to convince the slave owners to give up their property and they were still selling their women for many decades to come.

Celebrate the end of slavery in the western World to a large & official extent, it's still rife in places in Africa & Asia !
Or, don't people read of the cases regarding poor domestic servants brought in from Indonesia & the Philippines ?

Slavery is still rife in the non-Western world, but you won't hear the white-hating racists and Green Marxist talking about that. No, it's all about something that didn't happen 200 years ago.

Dear Paul,

Thank You for this discussion.

Celebrating the end of slavery is the first
federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr Day
was established in 1983. The effort to have
Juneteenth declared a federal holiday was
decades in the making. So there's hope for
Australia yet.

Let's trust that the history of slavery will
be taught truthfully in American schools.
Instead of sticking to the "patriotic" version.

As for slavery in Australia?

The following link explains:

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Australia