[thegagline]

Coincidentally, Juneteenth is both the newest and most violent holiday. Guns are to blame. [sarcasm]

[Reno89519]

It is a good holiday, fair, and due for our original African-American citizens, freed by Lincoln and the Republican party.

Next, we don't have any federal holiday in March, April, and August.

I vote for St. Patricks Day in March.

Easter for April?

August?

Then we'd have at least one federal holiday every month of the year.

[HighSierra5]

All I know is that I just saw Elons Falcon burn across the sky. It never gets old!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

More people consider Toyotathon a real holiday…

So there’s that.

[cowboyusa]

Blacks were freed on December. 5th, 1865. Some black slaves were freed by the Chickawa Nation in 1866.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Juneteenth celebrates Republicans freeing slaves held by Democrats .

[hanamizu]

“...Its off-putting, cutesy title...”

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I don’t find its title all that ‘cutsey’. The official name is ‘Juneteenth, National Independence Day’ And it’s important to remember, despite the symbols on display tomorrow, the slaves didn’t free themselves.

[NurdlyPeon]

My advice to my fellow FReepers on how to get through this ‘Juneteenth’ thing is as follows: Remember, and dwell on, two important things: 1) June 19th is also National Martini Day. Gin and Vermouth are both pretty cheap, so you got no excuse. and 2) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were both executed on this date in 1953. They were a husband and wife Russian spy team who were tried and convicted of Espionage for giving American atomic bomb secrets to the Russians. Aaah for the good old days. Anyway, just dwell on those two things, and you'll make it through tomorrow okay.

[newfreep]

The REAL June19 celebration - not the racist "juneteeth"

TWO communists, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY.

They were convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets

[Adder]

Ahhh yes...the ebonics federal holiday.
Name another that caters to race besides MLK day...

Thats 2 wastes of time.

All the others seek to celebrate All people, as it should be, imho.

[TexasFreeper2009]

A president is NOT king! and shouldn’t be able to create a national holiday or deem land a national park or any other silliness!

[HamiltonJay]

While this is the stupidest name for a holiday ever.. make no mistake about it.

Arguing, as a society, we should not recognize and celebrate the end of slavery, is even more stupid.

Reality is the US should have had a formal holiday celebrating its end long long ago.

It should not have taken until the 2020s to recognize this vitally important event. It should have been a national holiday, as soon as the 13th ammendment passed and slavery formally ended.

I agree using this stupid name for the day was pandering and if I were to choose a day and name it would not be June 19th but likely the day the south surrendered ending the civil war or the day the 13th ammendment was formally ratified and called it something much much different, but to try to argue that there should not be a federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery is just idiotic.

[NWFree]

Another fake tribal holiday for violence