I find it nothing but pandering and groveling. It’s not been a nationally-known day (my husband only just found out when I brought it up last week, and I only because few years back it was brought up on some documentary). I’m betting most blacks didn’t know about it...because it was local!
Nothing more than Cinco de Mayo, with exact same background and same intention...undermine this country.
I got Friday off from my job. My prediction- next year, when it’s on a Saturday and there’s no elections, Juneteenth will go the way of Kwanzaa.
I want nothing to do with it.
How many times did Obama mention it ?
It’s My FR Anniversary.
Trump wanting to hold his rally that day is mainly what’s turned it into the most revered holiday ever now.
I find it to be a great opportunity to celebrate the blessings of Liberty.
It has no business being a national holiday. State recognition in Texas makes sense.
Neither does Mardi Gras have any business being celebrated in the streets of Seattle.
But more Americans should be exposed to Patriots Day.
And that’s what corporate “floating holidays” were intended for. Someone doesn’t want to take Good Friday or Columbus Day, fine, other people who want to recognize them can.
I would trade MLK Day for a day commemorating the End of Slavery.
I went to some really crappy public schools and they never taught it. I don’t remember even hearing about it until a few days ago. I figured the dems we once again pretending to care about something and it was another excuse to keep rioting.
The end of slavery is something to celebrate, but I don’t favor giving government workers another paid holiday.
It celebrates the victory of the GOP over the slave-owning Dimocrats!
Of course I knew that there was a certain day in 1863 that Lincoln proclaimed that the slaves were free, even though the Confederacy still existed. But, I’d never heard of it referred to as “Juneteenth.”
That is, until it was an excuse to say how insensitive and racial it was for Trump to plan a rally on the anniversary of Lincoln’s proclamation. And, that, although it hadn’t been nationally celebrated for 155 years, it was of the utmost importance that it become a National Holiday.
So, the answer to the original question of “When did I know?” is just... a few days.
Three words:
I
DON’T
CARE
Well, Johnny Reb (written with all due respect), Juneteeth is a result of victors of the war of northern aggression - Republicans. Not a single Rat wanted it. Claim it as a victory of Republicans and ridicule southern Democrats, along with other Rat laws and policies meant to keep blacks on the plantation til today. At this point, it’s not beneath me to twist a little known Texas holiday into something more than it is.
Juneteenth isn’t in my dictionary. If it’s to stand for the end of slavery what about all the minions still walking around under the thumb of government, dnc, blm, antifa or still in mommy’s basement?
Nothing sudden about it. I’ve known about Juneteenth for over 25 years. Cinco de Mayo was invented by Budweiser to sell beers they were distributing. The last emancipation is a valid holiday.
I never thought it at all.
Buncha virtue signaling twunts. And the GOPe is worse than the demoncraps. They are in full surrender mode to the America-haters.
June 19th? A nice Spring day; God willing.
Juneteenth is not a day on the calendar. It sounds like something mischievous white people attributed to slave dialect in a minstrel show. Probably done in blackface.
The word Juneteenth should be considered very offensive, much like the song “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” or one of Stephen Foster's songs ("Way down upond de Swanee ribber, Far, far away, Dere’s wha my heart is turning ebber, Dere’s wha de old folks stay.”)
I say all this in the spirit of consistency.