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“I want my colleague on the other side and I want to say, my white colleague on the other side getting your independence from being enslaved in a country is different from a country getting independence to rule themselves. It is not a day that you can loop together. That is inappropriate,” Lawrence said.
Another Republican invoked the culture wars over teaching American children in schools about the nation’s history of systemic racism for opposing the establishment of Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
“Let’s call an ace an ace. This is an effort by the left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make critical race theory the reigning ideology of our country. Since I believe in treating everyone equally, regardless of race, and that we should be focused on what unites us rather than our differences, I will vote no, ” Rosendale said ahead of the vote.