Juneteenth "National Independence Day"

The progressive left can ruin anything.

I've been inclined to want this added as a national holiday for awhile now--more-or-less from first hearing about the idea a couple of years ago. Obviously we can't really have, say, Emancipation Proclamation Day, as it would fall on January 1st. 

Unfortunately, this pretty cool idea has been largely ruined by the bullshit idea to subtitle the holiday as "...National Independence Day." I stay as far away from postmodern free-form, politicized interpretations as I can. I'd normally be more tentative about this one. But honestly it's pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that this is yet another nutty, divisive, racialist, anti-American move by the left. It makes no sense to call Juneteenth "Independence Day." More accurate--and more evocative!--would be e.g. "Emancipation Day." And certainly not "national independence day"--as if the actual national independence day, two weeks later, is somehow not the genuine item. 

Kinda hard not to take this to be pushing the "1619" nonsense. I take it the idea is: the "real" birth of the USA was...etc. etc. slavery etc. So "Juneteenth" is the "real" independence day. 

Needless to say, I don't want to do the progressive pomo free-form interpretation thing--looking for the worst possible interpretation of what my political opponents have done... But they seem to have stretched pretty far to get that descriptive clause. It's so inaccurate and contrived that it's impossible not to smell a rat.