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‘People were very offended’: ‘Tone deaf’ corporations facing backlash for Juneteenth themed products
CNN (on their own site) ^ | June 15, 2022 | Nicquel Terry Ellis

Posted on 06/16/2022 10:19:47 AM PDT by Salman

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To: bert

Hey,I think we have a “holiday” to replace Kwanza!


41 posted on 06/16/2022 10:42:47 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Open up the window curtains wide and let in God's light!)
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To: JBW1949

Because somebody noticed Trump had a rally on that day.


42 posted on 06/16/2022 10:42:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
It is the day that Republican bayonets finally reached Galveston freeing the last of the democrats slaves.

Ironically, the slaves in Maryland were still very much in captivity.

43 posted on 06/16/2022 10:43:03 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: Salman

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis had watermelon salad as thei Juneteenth special.

Unarguably one of the most leftist and woke operations in the city…

They said they even researched “African American” diets to be “authentic”

And they probably were right…


44 posted on 06/16/2022 10:43:57 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: KC_Conspirator

Would it be out of line for JCPenny to have a Joonteenf White Sale?


45 posted on 06/16/2022 10:44:24 AM PDT by ExSafecracker (. . . FJB . . .)
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To: waterhill

Lots of people who migrated from Texas to other places took it with them. Pockets of people wound up celebrating it all over.

I don’t have a problem with it. I think we need more holidays celebrating history in general. (I never liked them smashing Washington and Lincoln together into ‘Presidents Day’.)


46 posted on 06/16/2022 10:44:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

“We should probably always have had some commemoration of this.”

A better celebration would be the day slavery was abolished from the United States Constitution. This was well after the destruction of the north’s economic and political rivals in the South.


47 posted on 06/16/2022 10:45:48 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: 4yearlurker

I’ve lived and worked among Black people all my life. I’ve never known anybody to celebrate Kwanzaa. It’s a completely made-up ‘thing’, and something like that doesn’t catch on.


48 posted on 06/16/2022 10:47:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Salman

If corporations leadership had any brains they would stick to their business and be neutral on the social scene.

If shareholders had any sense they would demand it.

Neither has any sense.

The business of business is business, nothing more and nothing less. Everything else is up to individuals. The poverty pimps started some of this with their hands out.


49 posted on 06/16/2022 10:47:26 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Only White Liberals celebrate Kwanzaa.

50 posted on 06/16/2022 10:48:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

get woke, go broke


51 posted on 06/16/2022 10:52:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Salman

I’ll be cooking red beans with pork necks, rice, greens, cornbread, topped off with watermelon. Not kidding, not sorry.


52 posted on 06/16/2022 10:53:39 AM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: Salman

One of those placed narrative stories.

Pumped out all over the place.


53 posted on 06/16/2022 10:53:50 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Salman

did they offer free Crown Royal?


54 posted on 06/16/2022 10:55:37 AM PDT by ronniesgal (is it safe?)
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To: Salman

I think blacks are so self conscious about watermelon because it’s a traditional plantation food, which was certainly eaten by slaves. But, also that blacks know that they look ridiculous when eating it because there’s a stark color contrast. Kind of like when blacks wear copious amounts of white clothing, they look ridiculous.


55 posted on 06/16/2022 10:59:14 AM PDT by KobraKai
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Evidently no one ever realized just how illiterate “Juneteenth” sounds....


56 posted on 06/16/2022 10:59:27 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Salman

Sometimes ignoring an identity group that wants attention leads to less hostility from them than celebrating them.


57 posted on 06/16/2022 11:00:02 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: fhayek

Celtic bigots are the best bigots. *belches loudly*


58 posted on 06/16/2022 11:00:23 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Women can be abusers, too. *sexy voice* So...which pair of brass knuckles suits my skin tone best?)
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To: ronniesgal

59 posted on 06/16/2022 11:00:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

We should put Juneteenth to use by pointing out that hundreds of thousands of people who look like us (whites) died for their freedom.
The whites you love to hate died for your freedom. You’re welcome!

Maybe with a background picture of Union dead soldiers.


60 posted on 06/16/2022 11:01:59 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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