[Terry L Smith]

Southern blacks along the Gulf Coast have observed this time for many years, and I have heard about it on the radio since 2000.

[wardaddy]

Must be a Louisiana thing.

Are u native....

I’m Mississippi and we didn’t have it in Pass Christian

I was part raised in Tensas Parish near Bruinsburg

I ever heard of it till race pimps started it....

[Irenic]

I heard it most of my life, Texan here.

[a fool in paradise]

Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker, Peppermint Harris, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Albert Collins, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Professor Longhair, Big Mama Thornton, Arnett Cobb, and others joined together to celebrate Juneteenth back in the 1970s.

https://30daysout.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/almost-30-years-out-stevie-ray-vaughan-1979/

[The Duke]

I think designating a day to celebrate the end of an institution like slavery is just fine. Had it been Commie-Kawanzaa, however, I’d be a-barfin’!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not here. Just below the Mason-Dixon Line.

This is akin to the Cinco deMayo garbage. A local-only Mexican commemoration turned into a National American holiday. I ain’t buying that it’s just a way for Corona beer to make money. Liberals embrace it lock, stick and barrel as another way to undermine the USA.