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School. they weren't able to go vote. you think that makes them feel good? so, the folks on the other side, stop making it about you. and be curious, instead of judgmental. >> right. >> that's all. >> and look. conservatives say they're all about the principles that reformation is about. don't you want your kids given an avenue to dignity and to see what abolitionists were about? and what it is to fight the good fight for the best of reasons? to celebrate your own brothers and sisters in humanity? isn't that what you are taking them to church for? >> every sunday. we could have a whole convers...

People do fall for it, as we know, since there was an insurrection on capitol hill from people who were co-opted by the big lie. and so, now, critical-race theory is the big lie, right? but tonight, there is exciting news about america. okay? let's -- let's -- the good news. and a nation coming to grips with its past and the horrors of slavery, juneteenth is now a national holiday. juneteenth, national independence day, to be exact. forever, going forward. america commemorates june 19th, 1865, as the end of slavery in the united states. the current president of the united states, joe biden, si...

President biden signing into law a bill making juneteenth a national holiday. even a small georgia town where the kkk was founded will be celebrating juneteenth this year. cnn's martin savage has the story. >> reporter: 80-year-old gloria brown remembers when hundreds of men in white robes would descend on her town each summer. >> as a little girl they looked like a white ghost. you know, they used to have black ghosts. they looked like a white ghost. >> reporter: crosses would burn on the nearby mountain top. brown's father a world war i veteran reassured her one day things would be different...

Emancipation day. and today, a national holiday. we are gathered here, in a house built by enslaved people. we are footsteps away from where president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. >> healing the stains of racism is a very slow process, in america. juneteenth marks a day, in 1865. but president lincoln, actually, issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863. americans in parts of the south, held in bondage, for two years after they were freed from enslavement. making juneteenth a national holiday should be a no brainer in the 21st century. and yet, 14 republicans in the...

Country. with the history of this country, as well, and the teaching of history. >> uh-huh. >> i am just wondering, maybe, that it was -- that it had this vote and all of this support because it's easy, in some quarters, to be performative. to do a performative gesture, rather than do the real work. do you understand what i'm saying? >> oh, yeah. yeah. there may be a little bit of that, as well. but we're going to do right by juneteenth. that is to say, to continue to do the things that people who have been celebrating it have done. and, that is, make it an educational holiday. to talk about h...