What did Candace Owens say on Twitter about Juneteenth?
MANY black Americans rejoiced when President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday - but conservative commentator Candace Owens called the declaration "lame." Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas. Candace Owens criticized the formation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday in a series of tweets on June 17. "Juneteenth is soooo lame," Owens wrote. "Democrats really need to stop trying to repackage segregation. "Ill be celebrating July 4th and July 4th only. Im American." Owens would add in another tweet that "it took all of 2 years for Democrats to train black Americans to worship criminals like George Floyd, beg for violence on the streets via 'defund the police' and to celebrate segregation in the form of 'black Independence Day.' "I just cannot comprehend the rampant stupidity." Juneteenth is soooo lame. Democrats really need to stop trying to repackage segregation. Ill be celebrating July 4th and July 4th only. Im American.   Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 17, 2021  A third tweet from Owens read that "every single race has been enslaved at some point in human history. Africans are STILL enslaved today. "This is not a holiday. This is more emotional training from Democrats to see ourselves as somehow separate from America. Independence Day is July 4th. The end." Owens criticizes only the Democrats, but the historic measure did have bipartisan support. The House voted 415-14 on June 16, 2021, to send the bill to President Joe Biden, after the Senate passed the bill unanimously the day before. All 14 dissenting votes in the House were cast by Republicans. Owens wrote in another tweet that "segregationist Joe Biden says Juneteenth is 'a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country - and continues to take.' 2 Owens speaks at CPAC in 2015 Credit: Getty  "More emotional programming for black people that choose to opt in to the perpetual victim mentality." Owens is not the only conservative to criticize Juneteenth. Representative Matt Rosendale, a Montana Republican, said the holiday 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." Charlie Kirk, a conservative talks how host, tweeted: "Stop surrendering to the left because you are afraid of being called a racist. "America is building statues of George Floyd but tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. God help us all." Most read in News THEY'RE BACK First 'murder hornet' sighting of year as experts warn of 'serious danger' Breaking NEWSOM ASSAULT Cali Gov. Newsom ATTACKED by 'aggressive' homeless man, 54, on the street 'HELLISH' ABUSE Mom 'had sex as son died in hotel room' after boy found with 'BELT marks' ON THE RUN Manhunt as cops search for driver who 'left two dead in hit-and-run & shooting' TENSE PENCE Ex-VP gets BOOED at conservative event where crowd appears to chant 'traitor' 'LITERALLY KILLING US' Mayor declares racism public health crisis & gives $10m to fight it  Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr Day was created in 1983. One of the federal holidays, Inauguration Day, happens every four years. I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another," Biden said.