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June (nine)teenth, seems pretty straightforward to me. Clearer than All Hallows' Evening --> Halloween. >I bet if you I were to walk down the street here and a
by Jordan-117 1y ago
June (nine)teenth, seems pretty straightforward to me. Clearer than All Hallows' Evening --> Halloween.
>I bet if you I were to walk down the street here and ask 10 people what Juneteenth is only 1 would be able to do better than: "something to do with freeing the slaves".
And lots of people think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day, doesn't make the holiday any less valid. It's just an issue of education.
- loughnane 1y agoI’m not saying the holiday isn’t valid, I think it’s a great holiday. The name is all I take exception to. Eventually we’ll all know what it is, but that eventually would be sooner with a better name.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago> but that eventually would be sooner with a better name Do you have some basis for thinking this? I rather suspect the reason White Americans don't know about it has more to do with the fact that it celebrates Black American history and culture, which is just not that popular among White Americans. (Of course there are exceptions, but the point is they're exceptions.) I seriously doubt that the name is the problem. The problem is that relatively few people are interested.
- naniwaduni 1y agoThe really striking thing is how poorly the name distinguishes the date from the seven days before it...
- Jordan-117 1y agoJu(ne) n(in)eteenth! :D
- thfuran 1y ago>And lots of people think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day, Probably because it has the same sort of bad name as Juneteenth.