BY PAUL MIRENGOFF at PowerLine:

WHY JUNETEENTH?

Steve Silbiger, a longtimeobserver of Joe Biden, sent me the following message:

Biden is living proof of how much progress the United States has made on racial discrimination. The man who ran for President on a Southern strategy in which he claimed that “Delewareans were on the side of the South in the Civil War” has signed a bill that creates a Federal law commemorating the effective end of slavery in the United States.

Now if he can only keep his son, Hunter, from using the N word. . . .

The United States has progressed significantly in combatting racial discrimination. Joe Biden, a lagging indicator, has progressed, albeit rather fitfully, with it.

What about the law making Juneteenth a national holiday, though? Is it a good idea?

I believe the demise of slavery clearly is worth commemorating with a holiday…