"Grandmother of Juneteenth" Opal Lee reflects on her journey to secure a national holiday

The "Grandmother of Juneteenth" spent years walking from Texas to Washington, D.C. to call for Juneteenth's holiday status.
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[@cefngwyn]

This "little old lady" is everybody's grandma. Beautiful!

[@12Nordsee]

Mine was called Aaltien.

[@elaineburnett5230]

Thank you Opal Lee for your leadership and tenacity.

[@crb7628]

Great story, Amazing woman!

[@litabagby8714]

You are an inspiration dear Opal. God Bless you. You touched my heart.

[@Moriningland]

What an inspiring woman

[@internationalwomenleaders3259]

Thank you Opal Lee ❤

[@fredroc9247]

Bless her!! 🤗

[@complexxken591]

I never even knew this story. What an amazing person and the triumph wow.

[@maureencora1]

God Bless Her, She a Hero They Need to Make a Movie About Her. Happy Juneteenth 2023 Liberation Day.

[@MiSZToYABAE]

Beautiful ❤😢 Thank you queen!

[@elliesings9508]

So proud of Ms Opal Lee!!

[@shirleyferrill1941]

Thank You so very much Ms Opal Lee For Juneteenth

[@Carmelmen1]

Love her!

[@JaymeeKay]

You give us all hope.

[@joygostchock6794]

God BLESS YOU!! Glad for Juneteenth National Independence Day!!

[@1956gaba]

A woman of power! 💪🏽

[@MsDisneylandlover]

beautiful

[@garymclaughin]

Yes me too didn't have a clue but it's fantastic. Sawadee Khap 🤠

[@cookiegilcrest1000]

THANK YOU QUEEN OPAL FOR YOUR SERVICE! NEXT! WHO WILL SIGN UP FOR SERVICE?

[@celesterosales8976]

Wow!

[@APRODUCTOF5920MINERVA]

Here Here. THE VOTE WAS IN. JUNETEENTH A NATIONAL HOLIDAY🎉

[@vadim1992ify]

#OpalLee she’s the queen of Juneteenth

[@htressa1217]

❤

[@Beefy0819]

Dam...she look Great

[@davedee4382]

Lol. Mother? She was born in 1926. She’s younger than my mother!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

we still have work to do...

[@donovanwilson4672]

We need reparations!!🤔👍✔️🗣️🎯

[@Gkreation34]

@@donovanwilson4672 only if you have a nationality. Black or African American isn't considered ANYTHING. Everyone has a flag except so called "blacks" black means dead in corporate Amerikkka

[@johnreligionandphilosophyj1977]

A conservator intent, and ancient and original beliefs in a Mother homeland to develop,produce with growth a civilized nation of human person is with international recognizance.

[@PTuffduty]

burning 🔥 that house 🏠 resulted in a national holiday.

[@dixienormouse1441]

Aww mammy wants this holiday to be for and about EVERYONE. Try telling an Irish that paddy’s day is for everyone… see how far you get

[@Webbgurl2000]

Mammy??

[@ajstacks41510]

That's the difference between us and Them

[@MIZRAIM1906]

I love her but nobody outside of her wanted Juneteenth to be a federal holiday....

[@ms.harris807]

You are only one person and you couldn't possibly know what you don't know. Didn't you hear how many signatures that she presented to Congress? Listen to hear and not just respond. If you love her I sure can't tell. We talk but don't actually listen to what we say most of the time. If we did statements like this would never be made because basically it's a lie and liars have no place in the push for the total liberation of Black people.

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

We can use more federal holidays.

[@markfcoble]

Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago.....yeah, great culture.

[@Ben00000]

I don't appreciate the casual racism under the guise of "culture". From slavery, to Jim Crow, to segregation, to the Nixon administration, black people have been a target for oppression on this soil since long before America was founded. Problems can be expected to arise when generational wealth was an impossibility, drugs were funneled by alphabet agencies into black neighborhoods, and discrimination was perfectly legal within many people's lifetimes today. The American culture that's pervaded since its founding is more to blame for the state of these cities than the nebulous concept of "culture" that's used to demonize them.

[@blackspectruminc.4112]

No she is not the grandmother of juneteenth

[@seand67]

She wasted her time.......So sad. I wonder how she feels seeing the young 'Ninjas' act like animals during the Holiday, etc

[@ajstacks41510]

It isn't any different than people acting silly on any other holiday or a football game

[@elizabethb4332]

I am sick and tired of hearing about Opal every June 19th.

[@dstorm7752]

Other, better dates could have been selected for this virtue signal, but June 19th was two weeks before July 4th and thus an ideal time for the Left to say again how horrible it thinks America is.

[@tiboregoldberger6817]

I wish you would have an international holiday cuz in the nation of Islamic Muslims racism at the senators and still exist and slavery a black African men and women continue even today that slavery of African men and women and children in Islamic out of world has lasted and it still has on for over 2,000 years 2000 years of slavery in the Arab Islamic Muslim world of black Africans and we're not even talking about the castration of African children with one out of 10 died how many died in 2000 years this genocide of African children by castrating by the Arabs Muslim Islamic Nazis has never been acknowledged by the United Nation or the world body

[@rodmoore1577]

Meanwhile our voting rights are dangerously being taken away but hey we got a holiday!

[@ms.harris807]

Do you vote? What are you doing to help turn out people who are eligible to vote. Our voting rights are in peril because those that could vote didn't. What is not understood is that those that didn't vote actually did. For the other side. They couldn't attack our voting rights if they weren't there. If Black people voted 70% we could run the table. Don't try to use this holiday as a scapegoat. It is not to replace but to remind. If you don't understand how many votes it takes to get laws passed in the House (218) and the Senate (51) then how do you think voting rights are going to be protected permanently? If you keep allowing people that don't represent your interests to be elected there is no way to legislate change. White people understand the power of the ballot box and that is how our rights are being taken away. Juneteenth as a federal holiday doesn't take away from that fact.

[@m.r.a.groupoficial3706]

first

[@twesj]

So you're not planning on covering the republican in Texas who won in a district that hasn't elected a republican in over 100 years?

[@ows8426]

Not the political section.

[@twesj]

@@ows8426 and yet I still commented.

[@ows8426]

@@twesj A fool’s mission😂😂😂

[@twesj]

@@ows8426 you're entitled to your opinion

[@lisachaput2952]

This is about covering a story about Juneteenth. Where does it say about elections? This is illogical.

[@theomegaman218]

Juneteenth is a great day to celebrate all the Republican Party accomplishments. Thank you GOP.😊

[@Ben00000]

Perhaps this would be a good day for the GOP to help tear down monuments to the Southern Democrats, then.

[@theomegaman218]

@@Ben00000 Maybe. Just leave Col Sanders alone.

[@chrislecky710]

Being a solid man is an invitation for you to value becoming a solid woman...its not my fault you didn't see that about me at the time.....2 conditioned maybe?? KMT

[@kpath74]

Thank the lord for the republicans party beating the democrats party in the civil war to set the black slaves free from the democrats plantation 😂

[@madwalka6402]

Juneteenth represents freedom yet she had to ask a white man to make it into a national holiday. Maybe it was better left alone, Ms Lee.

[@diablo666541]

Same white .man who didn't want his kids Goin to jungle like school

[@Gkreation34]

🤔🤣🤣 interesting

[@michaelsanger7795]

Emmmm isn't 1 month not enough ? Oh oh wait...how selfish of me...ft.

[@shawniehoward]

Yes Michael, stop being so selfish. Just think, had your ancestors not enslaved Black folk you wouldn't have to worry about Black History month or Juneteenth.

[@diablo666541]

@@shawniehoward a holiday given to you by the Master Biden shtfu Shawnee w

[@EnJoony]

@shawniehoward So - Every white person's ancestors enslaved black folk? Or just Michael's? 😂

[@exposingthetruth3821]

I can't wait for July, White History Month!

[@fabiofoxmusic3971]

White history is war and racism.

[@exposingthetruth3821]

@@fabiofoxmusic3971 white history is world history. Only peace the western world has ever known. Took out tribes of cannibals, ended western slavery that was provided for by Africa (still exists today at same locations in did in 1500). Insane cultures of people sacrificing each other to the 'gods'. White... doesn't even exist, it's a mentality created for division. Find me someone who is a pure 'White' or pure blooded from some ancient tribe, and even then just a few hundred years ago most 'whites' hated each other. My wife is Irish and Jewish and her family were slaves in the US as well, second hand citizens all the way into the 50s. I have Latino and Japanese in me, but am called 'white'. This isn't about color anymore, maybe some low IQ idiots think it is... this is a cultural issue and decay of morals. There is no dignity left. But if anything, July is 'white history' month, and every patriotic holiday is for those who built this country all the trash hate so much (but won't leave). Go ahead and believe that people really give two shots about color... if I don't like someone it has nothing to do with their color of skin but their content of character. People should step back and realize how MLKs words were highjacked by the Left to create empathetic pandering votes. What blows my mind is how the Latino world seems soooo much more intelligent than the average Black American. I wonder if this is the result of systemic racism over the last few hundred years where the slaves were bred to be stupid and big- easier to control. Look at photos of poor blacks and whites 100 years ago... dressed professionally and decent as they can be, proud. Honorable and hard working. What is being done to black culture by the left, especially in cities is horrific.

[@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594]

Lol

[@trustyshooter5]

Ignorant smoke

[@EnlightenedHeart01]

I will not celebrate this holiday because it's has nothing to do with us as whole country this holiday is exclusive to texas only. 2 this just another way to virtual signal and for anyone doesn't respect and honor are true independence day which was obtained by the founding fathers

[@p.hemphill9340]

By this very silly logic only people living in the original colonies should celebrate independence? All holidays are virtue signaling, they are symbols of values we intend to hold. Juneteenth was a step in the nation living up to what was professed in the articles, but wasn't yet courageous enough to live.

[@sawyersgirl5142]

You sound bitter. 😅 I'll pray for you.