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> The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. [1] I thought it was a neologism until I looked it up. Turns out, I'm

> The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s. [1] I thought it was a neologism until I looked it up. Turns out, I'm just white. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

zzrrt 1y ago
It is an old neologism, but the style feels surprisingly modern, and/or AAVE is so dominant today that even (youngish?) white people would have coined this type of abbreviation today. > on June 19, 1866… "Jubilee Day" > The Black community began using the word Juneteenth for Jubilee Day early in the 1890s.
downboots 1y ago
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=Juneteenth https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
- lukas099 1y ago
  Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.
  - blackqueeriroh 1y ago
    Just to be clear, Africans had writing, reading, mathematics, science, medicine, and more millennia before Europeans did. [1] [1] https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achievements-in-stem-in-ancient-africa https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achie...
    - lukas099 1y ago
      Yes, good addition—and in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about how most slaves weren’t allowed to learn to read or write.
  - downboots 1y ago
    oddly specific
Drugein 1y ago
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- antonyt 1y ago
  Presumably "It's just that I'm white and was therefore hadn't been exposed to this tradition."