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.
Here in Texas we’ve celebrated Juneteenth in Mexia for decades in the usual Texas way. An afternoon of picnicking and locally produced music.
But I understand that’s not what’s happening elsewhere.
In a sane world it would mean that slavery ended and that there is no reason to use it as an excuse for failure and for killing Whitey and for extorting money from Whitey and for burning and destroying buildings.
It should be a celebration of an event that was good. Instead, they use it as a forced reminder that there was slavery, and that it was the Unforgiveable Original Sin for which there is no redemption. This is what the annual “celebration” of juneteenth is now becoming.
It’s a disgusting bone thrown by pandering politicians. People still have to take vacation days off to observe religious holidays, but this was given off as a freebie. If you look, you could find something that happened historically for every day. It doesn’t mean it has to be made a national holiday. And what will this cost employers and cities to pay for a day of non-productivity?
I don’t care. We have the emancipation proclamation, black history month, MLK day, I’m told my silence is racism, that there’s ‘systemic racism’, that reparations are due, and I’ve lived through years of preference given to minorities for hiring,firing and loans.
In spite of trying to be color blind and just try to see us all as God’s kids, as humans where all lives matter - I’m presumed as insensitive and bigoted.
So, I’m well past insulted and really don’t give a shit.
I see it as an opportunity. Make it a holiday. Call it Emancipation Day. Make it everyone’s holiday. After all the emancipation of slaves was a good thing accomplished at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. We should be proud we got it done. And the Republican Party should lead the way, since it was the Republican Party that achieved emancipation. Some folks need reminding...
Never heard of it until recently.
It’s being thrust on the national stage by the Marxists as part of their never ending effort to divide and undermine the United States of America. Stay away from it.
It’s been a Texas thing for a while as I understand, as the date commemorates when slaves in Galveston found out they were emancipated (June 19, 1865). But it’s only in the past 10 years or less and ESPECIALLY this year that it’s become a thing. Hell, my company basically told people that they needed to take off early on Friday and “take time to reflect.” I bailed early and reflected on the inside of my eyelids. It was a good nap untroubled by thoughts of Juneteenth.
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Never heard of it until a few weeks ago.
BTW - I share the same Birthday with Mick Jagger, July 26th and our Wedding Anniversary is on July 9th, OJ Simpson’s Birthday. Do I get a Cookie?
The sudden fuss over Juneteenth is just another virtue signal that white p***ys use to appease the black mob.
Growing up as a white kid in a predominantly black run city in the 1960’s I never heard of Juneteenth and neither did the blacks in the schools I got my “Education”in.
I went to an integrated high school at a time when this country was being torn apart.
We were taught about Juneteenth and it’s importance. We celebrated together. We raised every voice and cheered OUR NATIVE land
Texas has had it as a state holiday for a long time
Until then, it's only July Fourth that I will recognize as the Freedom From Privileged White Aristocracy Day.
I don’t give a rat’s ass one way or the other.
“Consider how suddenly it’s been foisted upon us.”
Yes, I just heard about Juneteenth 50 years ago.
I’m pretty sure I’m deeply unworthy to even say the word “juneteenth” much less consider what it means. But I will strive to think of it as little as possible so it won’t be sullied by my thoughts. Which might not be that hard, considering I’m just hearing about it now.
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I’m from Texas so it’s nothing new to me at all. Not sure why they want to make a Texas thing into a national thing though.
Actually, I think it’s a great idea. It’s something Republicans are responsible for, and we should embrace it.
And I DARE ANY of you to think for a NANOSECOND that you are more Conservative than me.
Any of you.
Symbolically, it has significance as a proclamation - freeing slaves in the last holdout. There is some historical significance in that. Slaves in all other states but Texas had been given their freedom. Is there a consensus or groundswell to chose this date over the date of Lincoln's proclamation?
It seems a mistake to do anything that rewards the desecration and destruction of statues, memorials and graves of those who fought in the war that ended slavery. The timing could not be more wrong. However I also see this as a step in the wrong direction. It does not heal or bind us together. Reading that so many don't know the meaning and scope of General Granger's order, I don't think a national holiday is warranted.
Finally, my circle of friends has grown smaller and now fewer of them identify as black, but I recall no one who celebrated either date and none who do so now.
Juneteenth should be a National Holiday, being that it is the commemoration of a Republican President emancipating the (literal) slaves of Democrats. To that end the event should be replicated and updated as necessary.