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Had you ever heard of Juneteenth before 2020?
I had not. And it wasn't on my Google holiday calendar last year, so I have a feeling someone at Google hadn't heard of it either.
Had you ever heard of Juneteenth before 2020?
I had not. And it wasn't on my Google holiday calendar last year, so I have a feeling someone at Google hadn't heard of it either.
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But real talk, I've never heard of it either until recently.
It marks an important day in American history thus it should be celebrated.
Now in their overbearing agenda to manipulate the country's thoughts the media is force feeding it us as they do with other subjects they choose so that we'll all become the obedient drones that meet the approval of the Central Committee.
i did not run across juneteenth day on that calendar. starting next year will this be recognized as a federal holiday?
What 4?
There was this one time when dugan and I were in this elevator and I felt the sudden need to fart. Did I despair? No - I used my inner rickness to declare “International Beef in an Elevator day” and I let it rip. Then my brother from a hairless ape mother and I took our leave.
It was worth celebrating because the rest of the apes in the elevator had to smell lion fart! Every year since I recruit some dork off the street, we go into a room, I fart, and then I lock him in. Good times are worth celebrating. ROAR!!!
The speech led Congress to establish forty programs aimed at eliminating poverty by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods and by helping the poor access economic opportunities long denied them.
Fifty six years later, we know this effort cost trillions of dollars and failed miserably. Before the effort, Black communities were solidly anchored by family and church. The government replaced this foundation with handouts from a central government bureaucracy filled with poorly thought out rules.
We can draw a direct line from the War on Poverty to the current chaos on the streets.
Words to live by. Now I’m off to celebrate international fuck my neighbor’s wife day. I think Imma lock him into a room I’ve farted in before fucking his wife. That way he can “enjoy” the odor while listening to his wife enjoy my BSLC. Have a piece of cake to enjoy the holiest of the rick holidays. ROAR!!!!
If y’all want to consider something reasonable you’d stop trying to bait folks with Ill considered rude shit and find some common ground , then maybe this tribalism would subside and you’d start to realize how a democracy is supposed to work by cooperation, not with one tribe constantly trying to dominate another
Really who cares when you heard of Juneteenth, it’s a thing and it’s quite understandable why some people find cause to celebrate.
Went to a California state University. Never heard of it.
Had a Black president of the United States. Never heard of it.
It took the racist Donald Trump to bring it to a national conversation. Orange. Man. Bad.
It's never been any kind of "a thing" at all on a national basis. Even in Texas it's only been recognized in certain areas within the state, as evidenced by the 40+ comments above. Go ahead and try to find a quote from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Barack Obama where they reference "Juneteenth."
Trump inadvertently scheduled his Tulsa rally for June 19 and instantly, as if by magic, it's the biggest "thing" since the Selma marches. Trump's rally date is the one and only reason this "holiday" gained sudden popularity. A coincidental opportunity for the left to attack him.
I honestly don't care if people celebrate it. Fuck it, make it a national holiday for all I care.
All I am saying is I and many others have never heard of it until Trump brought it up.
Hadn't really heard much about it around here since he moved back to Texas about 10 years ago though.
Well - since you asked - I believe I heard the NAACP wants to make the invention of the afro a national holiday - it's starting to get a bit ridiculous but such are the times we are living in
yes we must celebrate the days of retro hair creations. mullets for the whites, shaolin: bald on the front & ponytail at the back for the chinese.
any others?
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I think Obama released an official Whitehouse statement every year in office. It's not like this was an unknown event prior to Trump postponing his rally by one day. Most people are unaware because it is not in their wheelhouse. I don't know the meaning behind most Jewish and all Muslim holidays. Doesn't make them any less valid to the people how actually care.
Coming back to strippers, I was actually watching Black-ish with my then favorite stripper. She was an early twenties girl with two half black parents. She insisted it was made up as a joke on the show, we even bet on it. I enjoyed my prize much more than I expected.
The leadership in the company I work for (like in many other companies) is doing a lot of virtue signaling so they won't be publicly called out for not doing so. One of their "steps to be more inclusive and fight racism" is they're considering making Juneteenth a paid holiday starting in 2021. In the last week or so I've talked with 4 black co-workers about Juneteenth and 2 had never heard of it until this year and none of them had celebrated it or done anything special for the day.
Many people think the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the US, it didn't. The 13th Amendment did that. But as commander in chief Lincoln issued the executive order that freed all slaves held in states in insurrection as a military matter. If a slave could make it to Union controlled territory or the Union occupied Confederate territory all slaves in that area were considered permanently free. While there was some issue with slaves still held in Union states that had not rebelled, later addressed by either state action or the 13th amendment Juneteenth marks the day that the last of the Confederate controlled territory was occupied by Union forces, and thus, the last slave freed.
If you find someone attractive who cares what they look like.
So yeah, I knew about it from early childhood. The rest of you who haven’t heard of it are the victims of shitty education.
Oh, and fuck the confederacy and fuck that loser’s flag.
From a completely objective standpoint, if your great great gran hadn't been raped you wouldn't be here either. History is history and, whether good or bad, it's what got us to where we are today. I can easily recognize the significance of June 19 (now that I know about it) and it's a fascinating story about your lineage. Too bad nobody ever brought it into the mainstream until Trump inadvertently scheduled a rally on that date 155 years later.
History that get overlooked. Juneteenth day was actually an episode on ABC’s Black-ish years ago when it was funny (I stopped watching it after like 3Rd season). . It’s been on the Apple iPhone calendar for as long as I can remember but so is numerous holidays. My wife from Florida celebrated in church her whole life. I’m shocked founder has never heard of it being he’s in California. But this is a prime example of how we can live amongst each other and totally IGNORE significant days in one’s culture. It’s like we’re in a bubble. Even if we live in the same neighborhood. It is what it is. And Trump didn’t make it Juneteenth day for originally scheduling his rally on that day. It was Dan Rather’s tweet that called him out on it. Look it up. Rather thought it was intentional that Trump held the first rally in 3 months on a historic black day in history and the site of the black Wall Street massacre. Rather (and others) felt it was Trumps way of thumbing his nose at all the recent protests. I’m not sharing my beliefs, because I only talk SCs in this forum, but it’s unknown whether trump or his staffers knew about Juneteenth.
I do feel it’s disingenuous that everyone is celebrating a day in history that has been
Around for years. It never got coverage like this. Everyone that is posting “happy Juneteenth Day” certainly didn’t post it in previous years (just look at their June 2019, June 2018 posts). The day was just as important last year and the year before that. Don’t just post because now because the social justice movement is reaching mass acceptance. That’s the fake part to me that disturbs me. But whatever . I’m just saying (like Twitter OJ says)
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44865.pdf
Every President since Clinton has made a statement on it. Oddly, Trump and Melania issued a Whitehouse statement two years ago.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…
Glad its a federal holiday, there's a big gap between fourth of July and labor day.