As we have come to expect, the media celebrated profusely this week the made-up holiday called Juneteenth.

This simply is part of the Democrat Party’s decades-long efforts to blur the fact that it supported slavery and segregation.

It was not until about 60 years ago that Lyndon Johnson, a wily, ballot-box-stuffing politician, decided the party might benefit by pretending to like people with black skin.

His Great Society disaster ensued and Johnson allegedly exulted, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!” (Democrats have since banished the word Johnson used from the lexicon – the only word in the English language to receive that treatment.)

In the 1990s, the newsroom of a local daily newspaper had transitioned to become openly Democrat and the idea that opinions should be kept out of news stories was for the most part abandoned.

Thus, when I wrote an editorial opposing the idea of reparations, the newsroom went nuts. They began circulating a petition calling for me to be censured. It never reached the publisher.

Among the inflammatory things I said was that slavery had existed 4,000 years and in most countries – a fact taken directly from the Encyclopedia Britannica.  In liberal lore, America invented slavery to benefit capitalism.

The editorial, by the way, condemned the institution of slavery in the strongest terms, much like one of the Founding Fathers, James Madison, declared slavery to be the worst example of oppression in history.

The real issue was whether people who never owned slaves should pay money to people who never had been slaves.

A columnist from the Far Left St. Pete Times called and interrogated me on why I wrote such drivel, since reparations clearly were warranted.

Sequel: A few months later, the brilliant economist Thomas Sowell wrote a column, which I published, that said almost exactly what I had said. There was no reaction in the newsroom.