It was just another media-manufactured “controversy”: President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., originally scheduled for Friday, was deemed “insensitive” and “inappropriate.” The reason? June 19 is Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery. On that day in 1865, the order to free the slaves was read out in the last former Confederate state to hear the news, Texas. You might wonder, as I did, what was so inappropriate about a Trump rally taking place on Juneteenth. The critics’ answer was the Tulsa race massacre...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 19, 2020 22:18 UTC