Juneteenth: Bill Nye 'Science Guy' schooled after posting about America's founding and slavery

Several people have responded to a tweet from Bill Nye the "Science Guy," after he posted on Twitter about America's founding, slavery and Juneteeth.

This is not accurate. This is not true. Juneteenth doesn’t commemorate the 13th Amendment. It commemorates news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Texas. Two union states had slavery until December 1865. That is actually not true. The last in the rebel states were made aware today in 1865. Delaware held people enslaved until the ratification of the 13th. Native tribes did so until 1866. The 13th kept a loophole for slavery as punishment for a crime. Too bad Bill Nye was wrong. The last enslaved people weren't freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't cover Kentucky, along with Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, & Missouri. Read a history book Bill. Actually, the final slaves weren’t freed in Kentucky and Delaware (@JoeBiden’s home state) until the 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865 Please open that and let us what date the 13th amendment was ratified into the constitution that ended slavery once and for all. Hint: it's not June 19th..... Tell me you can't do a simple Google search without telling me you can't do a simple Google search. I believe you may exaggerate a bit on the building America part, but you're right on target about when legal slavery ended in the United States. So as an immigrant to this country, I haven’t contributed to building this country? And the countless others like me? How about the backs of the countless immigrants that "contributed" to this country? Do we all count?

With a pocket Constitution and a simple selfie, Nye added: "The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate— and never forget."

The post almost immediately sparked a backlash as several users disagreed that Juneteeth ended slavery.